My mothers Italian,My Dad's Jewish and I'm in therapy
My mothers Italian,My Dad's Jewish and I'm in therapy
My mothers Italian,My Dad's Jewish and I'm in therapy#1
Posted: 11/7/06 at 11:49amAnyone seen the show? How is it?
re: My mothers Italian,My Dad's Jewish and I'm in therapy#1
Posted: 11/7/06 at 11:54amThe title is so dated, it has turned me off from the show.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
re: My mothers Italian,My Dad's Jewish and I'm in therapy#2
Posted: 11/7/06 at 11:55am
I have a friend whose life that IS. Does that count?
akiva
re: My mothers Italian,My Dad's Jewish and I'm in therapy#3
Posted: 11/7/06 at 11:57amI thought the same thing, Rath. It might as well have been called "What's The Deal With Airline Food?" "Why Can't I Program My VCR (But My Four-Year-Old Son Can)?" or "Ever Notice That People Pay More For Pants That Are All Torn Up Than They Do For A Good Pair Of Jeans?"
re: My mothers Italian,My Dad's Jewish and I'm in therapy#4
Posted: 11/7/06 at 12:00pmI haven't seen the play, but I am soon to have a Jewish Mother-in-law, and my encouters with her over the last 5 1/2 years could make one hell of a broadway comedy!!!! That and she has made me consider therapy many times!
BroadwayBoobs: I'll give all of you who weren't there a hint of who took the pictures ...it rhymes with shameless
SOMMS: I knew it was Tink!
re: My mothers Italian,My Dad's Jewish and I'm in therapy#5
Posted: 11/7/06 at 12:13pm
LOL I agree! I have lived it (kinda) so i was wondering what was it all about.
The name is a definite turn off(Jewtopia anyone)
re: My mothers Italian,My Dad's Jewish and I'm in therapy#6
Posted: 11/7/06 at 12:15pmI've been getting comp offers for it, so if it comes up on a convenient day for me, I might check it out.
re: My mothers Italian,My Dad's Jewish and I'm in therapy#7
Posted: 11/7/06 at 12:17pm*sidles up to Calvin*
re: My mothers Italian,My Dad's Jewish and I'm in therapy#8
Posted: 12/8/06 at 12:21pm
We're going on Sunday. Anyone here seen it yet?
Ken
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/05
re: My mothers Italian,My Dad's Jewish and I'm in therapy#9
Posted: 12/9/06 at 11:49am
I would see it for free, but I would never pay money for it. I can't believe it could last very long in such a big Off-Broadway space like the Little Shubert Theatre. Sigh...
It's a shame too, because the Little Shubert is such a fantastic space. It's beautiful. I don't know why they couldn't have made it bigger and become a smaller sized Broadway house. Then again, they're even more off the beaten path than the Belasco.
re: My mothers Italian,My Dad's Jewish and I'm in therapy#10
Posted: 12/9/06 at 12:00pm
The Times gave it a PAN. First off, those ads with the guy's ugly head are obnoxious. And apparently, the show is all toilet humor.
From The New York Times:
Steve Solomon is like the uncle at Thanksgiving dinner who just won’t stop cracking jokes. He’s a nice guy, oddly endearing and somewhat entertaining, but you’re sort of embarrassed by his attitudes and his choice of topics. Spending a few minutes with him is fine, but you pray he’ll be seated next to somebody else.
“What are genitals?” he asks, pretending to be his younger self, studying for sex education class.
“Those are people that are not Jewish,” he answers in his grandmother’s voice.
Imitating a self-described ladies’ man, his pickup line is: “How do you like your eggs in the morning? Fertilized?” One routine is based on confusion between the words condo and condom.
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These “Oh, my God, I’m ethnic” shows have built-in audiences. (“A Jew Grows in Brooklyn,” at 37 Arts, is one of the most recent.) But Mr. Solomon spends a lot of time on topics other than his parents’ culturally mixed marriage. He is fond of elimination jokes, for instance, one about prune juice and one treating pu-pu platter as a pun.
Mr. Solomon’s impersonations are skillful but often meanspirited. His victims include his sister with emphysema and his wife when she was pregnant (so annoying that she urinated a lot). One recent audience went wild with laughter when he pretended to be an elderly man with gas.
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Mr. Solomon, who was a physics teacher and a school administrator before going into comedy full time, says that he has been writing jokes for decades and that others have stolen them. That’s odd (or Mr. Solomon is a lot older than he looks), because I could swear that “Never go to bed mad — stay up and fight”; “You say ‘I do,’ and from then on she doesn’t”; and “It’s not a complex — you are inferior” have been going around since Noah’s wife was keeping kosher.
New York Times Review
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
re: My mothers Italian,My Dad's Jewish and I'm in therapy#11
Posted: 12/9/06 at 3:12pmMy mother is Jewish, my father is Puerto Rican, and I’m in therapy!
re: My mothers Italian,My Dad's Jewish and I'm in therapy#12
Posted: 12/9/06 at 3:30pm
My mother is French, My father is English, and I'm a metaphor for their treaty.
Do I win?
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/
Joined: 12/31/69
re: My mothers Italian,My Dad's Jewish and I'm in therapy#13
Posted: 12/9/06 at 7:08pm
its difficult to believe that its real.
it sounds like an SCTV parody, like I'M TAKING MY OWN HEAD, SCREWING IT ON RIGHT, & NO GUY IS GONNA TELL ME THAT IT AINT!
except not as funny.
re: My mothers Italian,My Dad's Jewish and I'm in therapy#14
Posted: 12/9/06 at 7:15pm
"My mother is French, My father is English, and I'm a metaphor for their treaty.
Do I win?"
Dang thats probably worse :)
i remember how annoyed my moms side were (their english) when france won the World Cup ..
Joined: 12/31/69
re: My mothers Italian,My Dad's Jewish and I'm in therapy#15
Posted: 12/9/06 at 7:33pmMY MOM'S A DRUNK, MY DAD IS DEAD & I CAN'T AFFORD THERAPY!
Joined: 12/31/69
re: My mothers Italian,My Dad's Jewish and I'm in therapy#16
Posted: 12/9/06 at 7:56pmHow about "My material's twenty years old, my talents are limited and your $65 is in my pocket!"
re: My mothers Italian,My Dad's Jewish and I'm in therapy#17
Posted: 12/10/06 at 12:44amIt certainly sounds like one of the most dreadful evenings one could ever spend in a theatre. OY! Doesn't this belong in a comedy club...on audience participation night?
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/05
re: My mothers Italian,My Dad's Jewish and I'm in therapy#18
Posted: 12/10/06 at 9:44am
Saw it! Laughed alot - - - why don't you all try seeing something before you
pan it. It was NOT a dreadful evening.
re: My mothers Italian,My Dad's Jewish and I'm in therapy#19
Posted: 12/10/06 at 11:09am
My Parents are WASPY Southern Baptists and I'm Gay and Went to Therapy...
wait, that's about half the people I know.
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