Re: Musicals/Jewish content

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Amen, George.

Conversely, we've not touched much on 2 of the better musical composers of 
the last 3 decades, both of whom are Jewish and both of whom have written 
chraachters, if not entire musicals, on Jewish themes and subject matter.

James Lapin has done an interesting thing with his  "Falsettos" trilogy 
(chime in any time Eve) about a Jewish "family" in New York living through 
the emergence of the aids crisis.  Stephen Sondheim's Company has Jewish 
charachters in the couple of Amy and Paul, if not others, but I'm not certain 
that there are others, really.  I've wondered why he of the "unhummable" 
hasn't broached the subject....

Thoughts on either>?


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> Why are you all so surprised that a show written by the dreaded Andrew 
> Lloyd
> Webber is devoid of Jewish content?
> The guy is a vocal born-again Christian whose Jesus Christ Superstar 
> repeats
> the old canard of Jews as Christ-killers.
> 
> The big surprise to me is that anyone so manifestly untalented as Lloyd
> Webber has had a massive career (and no, I'm not attributing it to
> anti-Semitism, just the stupidity of audiences).
> 
> George Robinson
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> Regards,
> 
> Adam Davis, Director
> Kfar Jewish Arts Center
> 773.550.1543
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