Your Favorite Jewish Number

[rufussars]

Your Favorite Jewish Number#0

Posted: 5/29/06 at 12:32pm

What is your favorite song in such a style? This includes a number that either sounds heavily Jewish, is sung by a Jew, utilizes Yiddish, or speaks of general Jew-like content. Yes, it's broad, simply to avoid an overabundance of "Fiddler". I love all things Jewish, but if I must choose an absolute, it would have to be:
"The King of Broadway".
Discuss!

...And so, there I was at the stage door for "Equus". The enthused avalanche of "Harry Potter" fans was literally pushing me into the barricades. As I was thrust face-first into Daniel Radcliffe's hat, I suddenly felt the thumb of a lanky gentleman behind me pressing firmly into my back. It was then that I realized that both of his hands had Playbills, and that both arms were outstretched in front of me...

Updated On: 5/29/06 at 12:32 PM

[JudasIscariot]

re: Your Favorite Jewish Number#1

Posted: 5/29/06 at 12:39pm

Interesting topic...

You Won't Succeed On Broadway
Four Jews In A Room Bitching
...
Springtime For Hitler

[millie_dillmount]

re: Your Favorite Jewish Number#2

Posted: 5/29/06 at 12:41pm

You Won't Succeed on Broadway

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

[ashley0139]

re: Your Favorite Jewish Number#3

Posted: 5/29/06 at 12:42pm

Shiksa Goddess (I think that would count). I love that song.

"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife

[WiiCKED x3]

re: Your Favorite Jewish Number#4

Posted: 5/29/06 at 12:44pm

Shiksa Goddess- LOOVEE that song!

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

re: Your Favorite Jewish Number#5

Posted: 5/29/06 at 12:57pm

Shiksa Goddess, The Schmuel Song, and I Could Be in Love With Someone Like You.

[liotte]

re: Your Favorite Jewish Number#6

Posted: 5/29/06 at 1:00pm

I like George's Prayer in Wedding Singer (Shechyanu).
It's not a musical number, but the sentences in Spelling Bee with Jewish content are great- Jihad, Phylactery, Cenacle, Quandary, Mohel. Updated On: 5/29/06 at 01:00 PM

[Smaxie]

re: Your Favorite Jewish Number#7

Posted: 5/29/06 at 1:04pm

My favorite Jewish number? Marc Kudisch!

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

[flaemmchen]

re: Your Favorite Jewish Number#8

Posted: 5/29/06 at 1:06pm

Douglas Sills!

"Peace! The charm's wound up." --Macbeth

[JerseyGirl2]

re: Your Favorite Jewish Number#9

Posted: 5/29/06 at 1:10pm

Eye-dina, duh.

Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!

[GClef2]

re: Your Favorite Jewish Number#10

Posted: 5/29/06 at 1:18pm

"Passover" from Elegies sung by Carolee Carmello is a favorite.

"The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love." -Little Fish

[thevolleyballer]

re: Your Favorite Jewish Number#11

Posted: 5/29/06 at 2:20pm

Shiksa Goddess (TL5Y)
The Dream (Fiddler)
You Won't Succeed On Broadway (Spamalot)

I heard from someone once (a very reliable teacher) that Shipoopi was written originally with some sort of Yiddush words in it, and had a very heavy Jewish-ish theme. Hah. That entertained me.

[CapnHook]

re: Your Favorite Jewish Number#12

Posted: 5/29/06 at 2:37pm

Papa, Can You Hear Me?

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[LessDazdMoreConfuzd]

re: Your Favorite Jewish Number#13

Posted: 5/29/06 at 2:37pm

I thought You Won't Succeed on Broadway was really entertaining to see live, but I don't really listen to it much on the recording. I like the song "Meeskite" from Cabaret, though.

[wickedrentq]

re: Your Favorite Jewish Number#14

Posted: 5/29/06 at 2:47pm

Springtime for Hitler, You Won't Succeed on Broadway for being funny

Sunrise, Sunset is just one of my all-time favorite songs.

"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli

[jasonf]

re: Your Favorite Jewish Number#15

Posted: 5/29/06 at 2:55pm

--Everyone Hates His Parents
--I don't know if it counts, but I LOVE "In My Own Lifetime" from The Rothchilds
--The title song from Rags
--"Our Shtetl is America," "Gliding"
--Of course, everything from Fiddler (the show is encoded in Jewish blood at this point)
--"The Channukah Party" from Caroline

Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.

[iluvtheatertrash]

re: Your Favorite Jewish Number#16

Posted: 5/29/06 at 3:45pm

Gliding - Ragtime
Four Jews in a Room Bitching - Falsettos

"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman

[gavrochegirl]

re: Your Favorite Jewish Number#17

Posted: 5/29/06 at 3:50pm

You Won't Succeed On Broadway
Shiska Goddess
The Schmuel Song

What the puck?!

[neomystyk29]

re: Your Favorite Jewish Number#18

Posted: 5/29/06 at 3:51pm

How Can I Call This Home - Parade

Sh'ma - Parade

[MTVMANN]

re: Your Favorite Jewish Number#19

Posted: 5/29/06 at 3:56pm

The Urinetown song, it's either "Act 1 Finale" or "What is Urinetown".

[Kgshrauder]

re: Your Favorite Jewish Number#20

Posted: 5/29/06 at 4:18pm

I totally thought of Four Jews in a Room Bitching when I read the title of the post.

It was 6 hours, I don't even like to have sex and eat bacon for 6 hours.
Freddy Benson- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

re: Your Favorite Jewish Number#21

Posted: 5/29/06 at 4:20pm

I totally forgot How Can I Call This Home from Parade!

[idinarocksmysocks!510]

re: Your Favorite Jewish Number#22

Posted: 5/29/06 at 4:46pm

You Won't Succed on Broadway~Spamalot! I love that song! The audience was howling!

you say i'm weird! look at everyone you're sitting with! and hey, those guys over there just threw napkins up in the air like they were on something! it's contajous! you can't help it!

[pandajen14]

re: Your Favorite Jewish Number#23

Posted: 5/29/06 at 6:12pm

To say anything from "Fiddler" would be cliched, so I won't.

You Won't Succeed on Broadway is just hysterical. Beyond that, most of Jamie's songs in L5Y, and Mushnik & Son from Little Shop. I don't know if Springtime For Hitler counts, but that's one of my favorite numbers ever performed on a Broadway stage. On that note, how about The King of Broadway?

"Writing should be easy, like a monkey driving a speedboat..." -[title of show] "I'm tired of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and meet up with them later." -Mitch Hedberg

[pandajen14]

re: Your Favorite Jewish Number#24

Posted: 5/29/06 at 6:13pm

ACK! I forgot- Four Jews in a Room Bitching. Love it.

"Writing should be easy, like a monkey driving a speedboat..." -[title of show] "I'm tired of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and meet up with them later." -Mitch Hedberg