Re: Musicals/Jewish content

[Eliott Kahn <Elkahn...>]

I regret that I haven't heard Liz Swados' Jewish theatre pieces. I admire her 
work.

I saw one of her secular musical theatre pieces a few years ago (can't recall 
the title) and heard some of her Jewish settings for 3-voice women's chorus 
(gospel-style) here at the Seminary also a few years ago. I enjoyed both 
evenings but the Jewish choral pieces were especially heart-felt and extremely 
musical. Great trio of Jewish singers as well.

Eliott Kahn


At 05:01 PM 3/17/03 -0500, you wrote:
>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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