Posted: 9/1/23 at 3:07pm
BETTY22 said: "Chip Zien yelling at his past self to shoot Hitler has to be one of the more camp 11 o'clock numbers in a while.
The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene - at theMuseumofJewishHeritage: A LivingMemorialto theHolocaust - is important, not camp.
Shame on you."
This has nothing to do with either Folksbiene and the Museum of Jewish Heritage, both of which I deeply respect. As presented on the album, Zien's interjections throughout come across as frankly kind of goofy, particularly the "yes! no! yes! no!" sections, and combining that with "I could've killed Hitler!" is so on-the-nose in terms of how it's written and presented that I couldn't take it seriously at all. If it worked in the theatre, I imagine they could've found a way to make it work on the album, as do similar songs in other shows, such as Fun Home's Telephone Wire, or Take A Look, Lee from Assassins.
