Re: Musicals/Jewish content

[Alex J. Lubet <lubet001...>]

fair enough, it's still a whole lot less than the % of musicals written by Jews.

Bob Wiener wrote:

> Alex, I'm sure that if you sat for a short while you'd come up with a list
> of shows that have significant Jewish content (especially if we include
> those based on Hebrew Scriptures).
>
> Even leaving aside those that have an isolated song or 2 (Guys and Dolls,
> Porgy and Bess, Street Scene... many, many more), we've already had: Oliver,
> Rags, The Rothschilds and could add The Apple Tree, Fiddler (there are over
> 10 recordings in different languages), Joseph..., The Producers, Zulu....  I
> have hardly begun.  And that's not even mentioning movie musicals and
> recordings of shows that may not have been produced.  (Or recordings of
> musicals in Yiddish (e.g., G&S) or Hebrew that seem too far afield.)
>
> I imagine that some list members have done shows on this very theme.
>
> Bob
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex J. Lubet" <lubet001 (at) umn(dot)edu>
> To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 2:18 PM
> Subject: Re: Musicals/Jewish content (was Oliver)
>
> > It's rather remarkable how few musicals have had Jewish content given
> > the Jewishness of so many of the creative forces.
>

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