Your Favorite Jewish Number
Your Favorite Jewish Number
#0Your Favorite Jewish Number
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/05
#1re: Your Favorite Jewish Number
Posted: 5/29/06 at 12:39pm
Interesting topic...
You Won't Succeed On Broadway
Four Jews In A Room Bitching
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Springtime For Hitler
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#2re: Your Favorite Jewish Number
Posted: 5/29/06 at 12:41pmYou 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#3re: Your Favorite Jewish Number
Posted: 5/29/06 at 12:42pmShiksa 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/06
#5re: Your Favorite Jewish Number
Posted: 5/29/06 at 12:57pmShiksa Goddess, The Schmuel Song, and I Could Be in Love With Someone Like You.
#6re: Your Favorite Jewish Number
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#7re: Your Favorite Jewish Number
Posted: 5/29/06 at 1:04pmMy favorite Jewish number? Marc Kudisch!
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
#8re: Your Favorite Jewish Number
Posted: 5/29/06 at 1:06pmDouglas Sills!
"Peace! The charm's wound up."
--Macbeth
#9re: Your Favorite Jewish Number
Posted: 5/29/06 at 1:10pmEye-dina, duh.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
#10re: Your Favorite Jewish Number
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#11re: Your Favorite Jewish Number
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. 
#12re: Your Favorite Jewish Number
Posted: 5/29/06 at 2:37pmPapa, 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
--Aristotle
#13re: Your Favorite Jewish Number
Posted: 5/29/06 at 2:37pmI 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#14re: Your Favorite Jewish Number
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
#15re: Your Favorite Jewish Number
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#16re: Your Favorite Jewish Number
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#17re: Your Favorite Jewish Number
Posted: 5/29/06 at 3:50pm
You Won't Succeed On Broadway
Shiska Goddess
The Schmuel Song
What the puck?!
#18re: Your Favorite Jewish Number
Posted: 5/29/06 at 3:51pm
How Can I Call This Home - Parade
Sh'ma - Parade
#19re: Your Favorite Jewish Number
Posted: 5/29/06 at 3:56pmThe Urinetown song, it's either "Act 1 Finale" or "What is Urinetown".
#20re: Your Favorite Jewish Number
Posted: 5/29/06 at 4:18pmI 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
Freddy Benson- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
#21re: Your Favorite Jewish Number
Posted: 5/29/06 at 4:20pmI totally forgot How Can I Call This Home from Parade!
#22re: Your Favorite Jewish Number
Posted: 5/29/06 at 4:46pmYou 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
Stand-by Joined: 3/22/06
#23re: Your Favorite Jewish Number
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
Stand-by Joined: 3/22/06
#24re: Your Favorite Jewish Number
Posted: 5/29/06 at 6:13pmACK! 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
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