Re: Musicals/Jewish content

[Sylvia Schildt <creativa...>]

AND SPEAKING OF PORGY AND BESS...

"It Ain't Necessarily So"  is uncannily similar to the tune and scan of your
basic "borukh atoh adonoy".

Sylvia Schildt

on 3/17/03 4:17 PM, Alex J. Lubet at lubet001 (at) umn(dot)edu wrote:

> 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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