Jewish Broadway Stars
Jewish Broadway Stars
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#0Jewish Broadway Stars
Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:18pm
I'm trying to think of all the Jewish broadway stars and have so far come up with: Idina Menzel, Shoshana Bean, and Harvey Fierstein, Marissa Janet Winokur. I'm having a brain toot though and can't think of any others.
Anyone want to add onto this list??
Link Larkin Wanabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#1re: Jewish Broadway Stars
Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:19pm
Hah...I think it would be easier to make a list of NON-Jewish Broadway performers.
Akiva
#2re: Jewish Broadway Stars
Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:25pmThis would be the longest list. First I think of Mrs. Brolin and Molly Picon, then I think of Zero Mostel and ... I think perhaps Link got that right, name who isn't.
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Elizabeth Taylor
#3re: Jewish Broadway Stars
Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:26pmIf i remember right Adam Pascal is jewish
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#4re: Jewish Broadway Stars
Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:27pm
Barbra Streisand, Joel Grey, Jerry Orbach, Zero Mostel, Marc Kudisch, Mandy Patinkin, Chip Zien, Carol Lawrence, Jenna Leigh Green...
Updated On: 1/1/06 at 10:27 PM
#5re: Jewish Broadway Stars
Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:30pmCarol Lawrence is like a Christian or a Jew for Jesus. Something like that.
"It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance." -
Elizabeth Taylor
#6re: Jewish Broadway Stars
Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:31pmJust curious---what difference does it make?
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#7re: Jewish Broadway Stars
Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:32pmTheodore Bikel, Lauren Bacall, Sarah Jessica Parker...
#8re: Jewish Broadway Stars
Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:32pm
Actually, Jenna is not.
And to answer "what's the difference", there isn't any. But if people are answering they should try and be accurate.
Updated On: 1/1/06 at 10:32 PM
#9re: Jewish Broadway Stars
Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:32pmDoes it really matter what a persons religious beliefs are?
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#10re: Jewish Broadway Stars
Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:34pmI'm pretty sure Jenna is Jewish. Her real last name is Greenberg.
YankeesFan175
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/8/05
#11re: Jewish Broadway Stars
Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:35pmis stephanie j block jewish?
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#12re: Jewish Broadway Stars
Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:37pmDouglas Sills is Jewish. So is David Josefsberg. Josh Young (Tony on International WSS tour) is as well.
#13re: Jewish Broadway Stars
Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:37pm
SJB is not.
Jenna isn't either, Elphaba3. Her dad's dad was (hence the Jewish last name) but his mom was Catholic. Her mom was raised Christian and so was she. I know this because she took off personal time from the tour around the Jewish High Holidays so I assumed so as well. She set me straight when I wished her an easy fast! 
Updated On: 1/1/06 at 10:37 PM
#15re: Jewish Broadway Stars
Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:40pmI have no idea why it would matter, But I always get a laugh when Adam Sandler sings a new version of his "Hannukkah Song" (i.e. OJ Simpson, NOT A JEW!)
"It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance." -
Elizabeth Taylor
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#17re: Jewish Broadway Stars
Posted: 1/1/06 at 11:00pmTovah Feldschuh too... (Golda's Balcony)... and Billy Crystal though I wouldn't know if he'd be considered a "Broadway Star."
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#18re: Jewish Broadway Stars
Posted: 1/1/06 at 11:01pmjimmirae, i wish he would make a broadway version of the song but i know he probably never would. it would still be quite hillarious.
#19re: Jewish Broadway Stars
Posted: 1/1/06 at 11:07pmDottie and Yankee, nothing wrong with honest curiosity.
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#20re: Jewish Broadway Stars
Posted: 1/1/06 at 11:13pm
why is it whenever someone makes a thread of who is what some people just over react sooo much.
dude no one is saying it matters or they care, they are just curious.
Just like i'd be curious as to any arab broadway people. Course thats because i only know of one. Or people from Ohio.
Some people are just curious.
sweeneytodd2
Featured Actor Joined: 10/28/04
#21re: Jewish Broadway Stars
Posted: 1/1/06 at 11:14pm
Ethel the Merman is not Jewish. She is Episcopalian I believe. I know she used to sing in her church choir.
Also, almost every composer/lyricist/book writer is Jewish. Woo!
Featured Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#22re: Jewish Broadway Stars
Posted: 1/1/06 at 11:16pm
Ethel Merman isn't Jewish. I was watching "Theater Talk" the other night and Arthur Laurents said Merman would get upset when people thought she was Jewish.
Judy Kaye is Jewish.
#23re: Jewish Broadway Stars
Posted: 1/1/06 at 11:16pm
"why is it whenever someone makes a thread of who is what some people just over react sooo much. "
No one is overreacting! All I said is "Just curious---what difference does it make?" because I was curious as well. Geez.
"You ask four guys, you get four different versions" ~ Tommy DeVito, Jersey Boys
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
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