Dave’s Gone By Interview (7/4/2020): VICKI QUADE & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Chicago actress and playwright Vicki Quade, co-creator of Late Nite Catechism and author/star of Christmas Bingo.

Topics include: Late Nite Catechism, Christmas Bingo, Maripat Donovan, coronavirus, Chicago theater, audience participation. 

Segment aired July 4, 2020 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #599 (3/25/2017): SUPREME COURTED

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Here is the 599th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, March 25, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: singer Mary Wilson, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with The Supremes’s Mary Wilson. Plus: Inside Broadway, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (first boots), Saturday Segues (Chuck Berry, In the News).

Note: Mary Wilson passed Feb. 8, 2021 at age 76.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (healthcare, haribo, skee ball, personhood, the nuns, Spanish class, morning news, toilet nightlight, the great oreo peep experiment)
01:02:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:26:30 Sponsors
01:31:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Chuck Berry
01:58:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:27:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Mary Wilson
03:21:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (first boots)
03:44:00 Friends
04:02:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
04:41:30 Weather
04:43:30 DAVE GOES OUT

March 25, 2017 Playlist: “Potato Love” (00:28:00) & “Batinhas” (00:48:30; Small Potatoes). “Brown-Eyed Handsome Man” (01:39:00), “Adulteen” (01:40:30), “Stop and Listen” (01:48:00), “Let it Rock” (01:50:30; Chuck Berry). “Round and Round” (01:43:00; The Rolling Stones). “Too Much Monkey Business” (01:46:00; The Beatles). “When Veruca Says” (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2013 London cast). “Come See About Me” (02:27:00), “Stop in the Name of Love” (02:50:00), “Floy Joy” (02:57:00), “He’s My Sunny Boy” (04:46:00; The Supremes). “Supremes Medley” (02:34:30) “You Can’t Hurry Love” (02:44:00), “Love Talk” (03:03:00) & “Time to Move On” (03:19:00; Mary Wilson). “He was a Friend of Mine” (03:30:00), “Santa Fe” (03:34:00) & “Golden Loom” (03:36:00). “How I Learned to Play Guitar” (03:55:00; Christine Lavin). “London Calling” (04:03:30; The Clash). “Hello from the Gutter” (04:07:00; Overkill). “I’ve Still Got My Health” (Panama Hattie 1940 Broadway cast w/ Ethel Merman). “Palisades Park” (04:14:00; Freddy Cannon).

(pictured: Mary Wilson, Bob Dylan’s Bootlegs v. 1-3, Chuck Berry)

Dave’s Gone By Wretched Pun of Destiny #038 (5/30/2015): HAVEL

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The 38th Wretched Pun of Destiny segment aired May 30, 2015 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Before he became president of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel ran a small theater out of a convent in Prague. They had no money, so everything they needed, he had to swap for. If they required furniture for a set, Havel would trade eggs and homegrown produce for the loan of a couch and chairs. If a show needed stagehands, Havel and the sisters would offer to do housecleaning in kind.

Havel became so good at these arrangements, the theater company came out way ahead on every deal. This left him plenty of time not only to write and direct shows, but even create the costumes.

One time, during rehearsals for a Greek tragedy, Havel is backstage fitting the women for masks when in storm the government police to harass him for his political views.

“You can’t arrest him,” cries the Mother Superior. “We need him to run our theater.”

“You’ll just have find someone else,” says the cop.

“There is no one else! He’s the only one.”

“Really?” says the policeman. “The only theater director in Prague. What’s so special about him?”

“Can’t you see?” the woman replies. “He’s a Czech of all trades, and a masker of nuns.”