Re: Musicals/Jewish content

[Bob Wiener <wiener...>]

Fair enough.

Let's add Bible Women to the list, although I don't know if it's ever been
performed as a revue.  While Swados is on my mind there's her Haggadah and
an Esther (with 6 selections from it on Bible Women).

BTW, perhaps my tone wasn't quite on target.  What I meant was that if
anyone on the list could come up with a list it would probably be you, Alex.

It would probably be fun to put together the less obvious Jewish numbers
from shows.  Maybe I'll work it up into a program some day.  (And even
through in the Japanese Sunrise Sunset for good measure.)

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 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: Musicals/Jewish content


> 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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