Dave’s Gone By Interview (5/6/2023): RICHARD DRESSER & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with playwright RICHARD DRESSER

Topics include: Our Shrinking, Shrinking World; theater, teaching 

Segment aired May 6, 2023 as part of the 893rd episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #766 (10/3/2020): MEE TOO

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Here is the 766th episode–our 18th anniversary!–of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Guests: playwright Charles L. Mee, theater critics Leslie (Hoban) Blake, David Sheward; Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews playwright Charles L. Mee; Today/Yesterday (Oct. 3 quiz w/ Leslie (Hoban) Blake & David Sheward); Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Custer); Dave’s Big Dictionary (plunder), Greeley Crimes & Old Times.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (18 anniversary, The Boys in the Band, Trump’s Covid and taxes, Heshy Tischler)
00:58:00 TODAY/YESTERDAY (Oct. 3 w/ Leslie (Hoban) Blake vs. David Sheward)
01:42:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Charles L. Mee
02:45:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
03:20:00 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY (plunder)
03:33:30 Friends of the Daverhood
03:40:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Custer)
03:41:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Charles L. Mee
Leslie (Hoban) Blake
David Sheward
Rabbi Sol Solomon & Charles L. Mee
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Dave’s Gone By Interview (8/22/2020): IRVING WARDLE

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Dave Lefkowitz chats with veteran theater critic Irving Wardle

Topics include: John Osborne, Kenneth Tynan, Arthur Miller, Zumba, Harold Pinter, theater criticism.  

Segment aired Aug. 1, 2020 as part of the annual Broadway theater special edition of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio show/podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (10/19/2019): EDWARD EINHORN & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with playwright EDWARD EINHORN

Topics include: Performance for One, Untitled Theater Company #61, theater, writing.

Segment aired Oct. 19, 2019 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (3/23/2019): KIM T. SHARP & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with director KIM T. SHARP

Topics include: Abingdon Theater,  The Way We Get By, Urban Stages, Death of a Driver, theater.

Segment aired March 23, 2019 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #690 (3/23/2019): LOOK SHARP

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Here is the 690th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday, March 23, 2019.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

GUEST: Director Kim T. Sharp, Dave’s wife Joyce.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Kim T. Sharp, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Inside Broadway, Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Golden), StoryTime (New Jersey finale), Potato Hotline.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (sad eyes, robot walmart)
00:28:00 GUEST Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Kim T. Sharp
00:53:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN (then and now)
01:03:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED – Golden
01:06:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:32:30 POTATO HOTLINE
01:45:40 INSIDE BROADWAY (news & review (02:03:00; My Fair Lady))
02:23:00 Friends of the Daverhood
02:37:00 STORYTIME – New Jersey: Past and Present, pt. 4
02:52:00 DAVE GOES OUT

March 23, 2019 Playlist: “I Could have Danced All Night” (02:20:30; My Fair Lady 1959 London cast). “The Man Who Invented Himself” (03:00:00; Robyn Hitchcock).

Kim T. Sharp
Laura Benanti in Lincoln Center Theater’s My Fair Lady
New Jersey: Past and Present
Golden, CO

Dave’s Gone By Interview (6/7/2014): DAVID SHEWARD

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews theater critic David Sheward

Topics include: Tony Awards, Featured Actor in a Musical, James Monroe Iglehart, Nick Cordero, Danny Burstein, Sardi’s.

Segment aired June 7, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” 10th Anniversary TotalTheater Tony Special, hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #344 (2/26/2011): RANSOM NOTES

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Here is the 344th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Feb. 26, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guest: Stan Ransom

Featuring: Dave chats with folk musician and musicologist Stan Ransom. Also: Inside Broadway (Driving Miss Daisy, Molly Sweeney), Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on Charlie Sheen; sponsors, friends & letters. Plus: Saturday Segue birthday tributes to Fats Domino and Johnny Cash, and Bob Dylan – “Sooner & Later.”

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:09:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Johnny Cash & Fats Domino
00:40:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (Molly Sweeney (00:41:00) & Driving Miss Daisy (00:50:00)).
00:58:30 GUEST: Stan Ransom
01:47:30 DAVE – Sponsors
01:56:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later
02:27:30 Weather
02:31:00 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection (Charlie Sheen)
02:43:00 Friends & Letters
02:55:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Feb. 26, 2011 Playlist: “I’m Ready” (00:09:30), “The Fat Man” (00:13:30), “Valley of Tears” (00:20:30), “I’m in Love Again” (00:30:00), “Whole Lotta Lovin'” (00:34:00) (Fats Domino); “Hey Porter” (00:11:30), “I Hung My Head” (00:16:30), “Ring of Fire” (00:22:00), “Daddy Sang Bass” (00:32:00) & “Hurt” (00:35:30) (Johnny Cash), “My Long Island Home” (00:55:30), “Wainscott Dumpling” (01:03:30), “Where are the Stones” (01:05:30), “Carolan’s Concerto” (01:43:30), “I Love Long Island” (00:01:00) & “The Coast of Peru” (02:59:00) (Stan Ransom), “Pretty Peggy-O” (01:58:00), “Little Maggie” (02:01:00), “Abandoned Love” (02:04:30), “Tell Me That it Isn’t True” (02:08:30), “Born in Time” (02:11:00), “It Hurts Me Too” (02:14:30) & “Blind Willie McTell” (02:18:00; Bob Dylan), “Desperado” (02:36:00) (Johnny Cash), “I Want to Walk You Home” (02:39:00) (Fats Domino), “Scott Walker Loves You” (02:46:00) (Art Paul Schlosser).

Stan Ransom
Vanessa Redgrave & James Earl Jones in Driving Miss Daisy
Fats Domino
Molly Sweeney at Irish Repertory Theater
Johnny Cash
Charlie Sheen

(pictured: Stan Ransom as “The Connecticut Peddler,” Stan Ransom, Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones in Driving Miss Daisy on Broadway, Jonathan Hogan, Geraldine Hughes & Ciaran O’Reilly in Molly Sweeney at Irish Rep, Fats Domino, Johnny Cash, Charlie Sheen.)

Dave’s Gone By #321 (11/25/2009): BANK HOLIDAY

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Here is the 321st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which debuted Nov. 25, 2009. Info: davesgoneby.com.

host: Dave Lefkowitz
guests: former guest co-host Jeff Goodman and financial expert Denise Winston

Featuring: Dave chats with financial expert Denise Winston about daily life in a bank. Plus: former guest co-host Jeff Goodman returns from Thailand and Singapore. Also: Inside Broadway (Broadway’s Superior Donuts and a CD contest).

00:00:01  DAVE GOES IN w/ Jeff Goodman
00:28:00  INSIDE BROADWAY (theater news & Superior Donuts)
00:38:00  GUEST: Denise Winston
01:08:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Nov. 25, 2009 Playlist: “Money” (The Beatles), “Money Money Money” (ABBA), “Money” (Cabaret, Alan Cumming in 1998 Broadway cast).

Denise Winston
Superior Donuts
Dave & Jeff Goodman

Dave’s Gone By #208 (2/18/2007): ICE POP

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Here is the 208th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, Feb. 18, 2007. Info: davesgoneby.com.

host: Dave Lefkowitz
guests: Dave’s dad, Philip Lefkowitz, his sister, Bonnie Pinkow, and Dave’s wife, Joyce

Featuring: Dave celebrates his dad’s birthday with Philip Lefkowitz and his sister, Bonnie Pinkow. Plus: Inside Broadway & Dave Goes Off on the cold weather.

00:00:01  DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce Weil
00:10:00  DAVE GOES OFF – Ice, Ice, Baby
00:16:00  INSIDE BROADWAY – News & Obits
00:38:00  GUEST: aunt Bonnie Pinkow
00:59:00  DAVE & JOYCE – Dave’s Dad
01:04:00  Happy Birthday Dad w/ Philip Lefkowitz
01:09:00  DAVE GOES OUT

February 18, 2007 Playlist: “Mona Lisa” (Nat King Cole), “First You Dream” (Steel Pier).

Philip Lefkowitz
Bonnie Pinkow
Ray Evans
Dave `n dad