Jewish Broadway Stars

[Unknown User]

Jewish Broadway Stars#0

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]

re: Jewish Broadway Stars#1

Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:19pm

Hah...I think it would be easier to make a list of NON-Jewish Broadway performers.

Akiva

[jimmirae]

re: Jewish Broadway Stars#2

Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:25pm

This 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.

"It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance." - Elizabeth Taylor

[renthead112305]

re: Jewish Broadway Stars#3

Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:26pm

If i remember right Adam Pascal is jewish

"Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature."

[Elphaba3]

re: Jewish Broadway Stars#4

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

[jimmirae]

re: Jewish Broadway Stars#5

Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:30pm

Carol 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

[YankeeGal#24]

re: Jewish Broadway Stars#6

Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:31pm

Just curious---what difference does it make?

"You ask four guys, you get four different versions" ~ Tommy DeVito, Jersey Boys

[Elphaba3]

re: Jewish Broadway Stars#7

Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:32pm

Theodore Bikel, Lauren Bacall, Sarah Jessica Parker...

[Popular]

re: Jewish Broadway Stars#8

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

[DottieD'Luscia]

re: Jewish Broadway Stars#9

Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:32pm

Does it really matter what a persons religious beliefs are?

Hey Dottie! Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany

[Elphaba3]

re: Jewish Broadway Stars#10

Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:34pm

I'm pretty sure Jenna is Jewish. Her real last name is Greenberg.

[YankeesFan175]

re: Jewish Broadway Stars#11

Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:35pm

is stephanie j block jewish?

Bob: "there is a chance, albeit a microscopic one, that our baby at some point in his or her formative years will get lodged in a tree" ~Related~

[bwaybabe85]

re: Jewish Broadway Stars#12

Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:37pm

Douglas Sills is Jewish. So is David Josefsberg. Josh Young (Tony on International WSS tour) is as well.

[Popular]

re: Jewish Broadway Stars#13

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

[Elphaba3]

re: Jewish Broadway Stars#14

Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:39pm

Oh ok, I didn't know that.

[jimmirae]

re: Jewish Broadway Stars#15

Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:40pm

I 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

[CurtainPullDowner]

re: Jewish Broadway Stars#16

Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:43pm

Ethel ZimMerman Merman

[dreaminaret]

re: Jewish Broadway Stars#17

Posted: 1/1/06 at 11:00pm

Tovah Feldschuh too... (Golda's Balcony)... and Billy Crystal though I wouldn't know if he'd be considered a "Broadway Star."

i grew up 13 miles north of bohemia and 31 miles northeast of hicksville.

[softershade]

re: Jewish Broadway Stars#18

Posted: 1/1/06 at 11:01pm

jimmirae, i wish he would make a broadway version of the song but i know he probably never would. it would still be quite hillarious.

[LizzieCurry]

re: Jewish Broadway Stars#19

Posted: 1/1/06 at 11:07pm

Dottie and Yankee, nothing wrong with honest curiosity.

"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt

[kasim]

re: Jewish Broadway Stars#20

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]

re: Jewish Broadway Stars#21

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!

[Unknown User]

re: Jewish Broadway Stars#22

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.

[YankeeGal#24]

re: Jewish Broadway Stars#23

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

[Unknown User]

re: Jewish Broadway Stars#24

Posted: 1/1/06 at 11:22pm

Madeline Kahn and Jack Gilford were Jewish.