Ari Axelrod on His ‘Celebration of Jewish Broadway’ Cabaret
Erin Ben-Moche
August 13, 2020
Any anti-Semite who gets up and sings “God Bless America,” that is a song written by a Russian Jewish immigrant.
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musical theater
Rachel Bloom Releases New ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Music Video, Sheet Music and Album
Erin Ben-Moche
August 8, 2019
Jewish actor Mark Nelson relishes chance to be part of ‘Cabaret’
Ryan Torok
July 27, 2016
When a brick is thrown through his shop window at the start of the second act of the musical “Cabaret,” the character Herr Schultz, a Jewish widower and fruit vendor, tries to convince his non-Jewish fiancée that prankster schoolchildren, not Nazis, are responsible.
This weekend, ‘Enter Laughing’ at the Wallis
Jewish Journal
February 4, 2015
The superlatives fall liberally and un-begrudgingly out of Carl Reiner’s mouth in praise of a musical he claims reaches new comic heights.
Tale of the ‘Stranger’ leaps from book to musical
Anita K. Kantrowitz
May 29, 2008
It was 1985, and many of the Ethiopian Jews who\’d been airlifted from Sudan were being housed in a hotel in Netanya, Israel. When writer Sonia Levitin entered the temporary nursery, she was particularly struck by all the babies and toddlers who\’d been born since their families had arrived.
Frank, Dean and Sammy back from the dead and live on stage
Pat Sierchio
November 30, 2007
The Rat Pack\’s impromptu shows, an intoxicating hi-ball of songs, dance, jokes and alcohol, are part of Vegas legend. Now, more than 40 years later, Angelenos will have the chance to experience a dead-on recreation of those legendary nights, at the Los Angeles premiere of \”The Rat Pack — Live at the Sands\” at the Wilshire Theatre Beverly Hills.
Music: A Yiddish celebration with Buenos Aires style
Roberto Loiederman
October 19, 2007
In the 1950s, a few years after Yiddish culture in Europe had been decimated, there was a bustling metropolis in the Western Hemisphere that still had a thriving Yiddish culture. This city had a number of schools in which classes were taught in Yiddish; there was an active theatrical scene, a couple of daily newspapers, books, literary magazines, songs and musicals — all in Yiddish. There were Yiddish comedians, as well as cafes where Yiddish-speakers gathered to chat and drink tea with a bissel (little) lemon. And there were vacation resorts, a few hours\’ drive from the city, where Yiddish was regularly heard. New York? Montreal? Actually, Buenos Aires.
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