Dave’s Gone By #767 (10/10/2020): PES DISPENSER

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Here is the 767th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Guests: comedian Tammy Pescatelli, theater critic Leslie (Hoban) Blake; Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews comedian Tammy Pescatelli, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Ovid), Inside Broadway, Today/Yesterday (Oct. 10 quiz w/ Leslie (Hoban) Blake), Wretched Pun of Destiny (Ethel Merman).

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (flu shots, Trump’s Covid, Orthodox riot, Little Andy)
00:57:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Tammy Pescatelli
02:01:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
02:27:30 TODAY/YESTERDAY (Oct. 10, w/ Leslie (Hoban) Blake
03:12:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
03:35:00 MY SICK MIND (Eddie Van Halen)
03:38:00 WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY (Ethel Merman)
03:45:00 Friends of the Daverhood
03:51:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Ovid)
03:53:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Tammy Pescatelli
Leslie (Hoban) Blake
Ethel Merman
your host

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
your host

Dave’s Gone By #762 (9/5/2020): TWISTED SISTERS

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Here is the 762nd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, Sept. 5, 2020. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Guests: Dave’s cousins Jeffrey Kirsch, Cynthia Shub Kirsch, Stacey Shub, and actress Lauren Shub, actor Shyaporn Theerakulstit, critic Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Today/Yesterday trivia quiz (Sept. 5 w/ Leslie (Hoban) Blake vs. the Shub Dynasty; Inside Broadway, Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Mack), Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Dave’s Big Dictionary (geology).

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (no Wynn situation, back to school, sewage, vote twice)
01:07:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:35:00 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY (geology)
01:44:00 GUEST: Lauren Shub, Stacey Shub, Cynthia Shub Kirsch, Shyaporn Theerakulstit
02:21:00 TODAY/YESTERDAY (Sept. 5) w/ Leslie (Hoban) Blake vs. the Shubs
03:43:00 Friends of the Daverhood
03:47:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Mack)
03:53:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
03:58:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Lauren Shub
Stacey Shub
Shyaporn Theerakulstit
Leslie (Hoban) Blake
Jeffrey Kirsch
Cynthia Shub Kirsch
Mack, CO
your host

Dave’s Gone By #761 (8/29/2020): UNCIVIL UNREST

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Here is the 761st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, Aug. 29, 2020. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Guests: theater critic Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Dave’s cousins Jeffrey Kirsch and Cynthia Shub Kirsch, spiritual leader Rabbi Sol Solomon, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Today/Yesterday (Aug. 29 w/ Leslie (Hoban) Blake and Jeffrey & Cynthia Kirsch); Inside Broadway; StoryTime with Rabbi Sol Solomon (Best Friend); Greeley Crimes & Old Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Lafayette); Dave’s song, “Hello Covid.”

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (davidians, fires `n floods, driveway weddings, no politics)
00:48:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:13:00 STORYTIME w/ Rabbi Sol Solomon (Best Friend)
01:29:00 TODAY/YESTERDAY (Aug. 29 w/ Jeffrey & Cynthia Kirsch & Leslie (Hoban) Blake)
02:57:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
03:09:30 SONG: “Hello Covid (A Letter from Cramps)”
03:13:30 Friends of the Daverhood
03:19:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Lafayette, CO)
03:21:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Aug. 29, 2020 Playlist: “Hello Covid (A Letter from Cramps)” (03:09:30; Dave).

(clockwise) Dave, Cynthia Shub Kirsch & Jeffrey Kirsch, Leslie (Hoban) Blake
Lafayette, CO
Rabbi Sol Solomon
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Dave’s Gone By #760 (8/22/2020): WARDLE WE DO

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Here is the 760th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020. Info: Davesgoneby.com.

Guests: theater critics Irving Wardle, Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Dave’s wife Joyce

Featuring: Dave chats with veteran English theater critic Irving Wardle; Inside Broadway; Greeley Crimes & Old Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Ames); Today/Yesterday Quiz with Leslie (Hoban) Blake.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN (Romania, new job-old sink)
00:49:30 INSIDE BROADWAY
00:59:00 GUEST: theater critic Irving Wardle
02:02:30 TODAY/YESTERDAY (Aug. 22 with Leslie (Hoban) Blake
03:19:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
03:41:00 Friends of the Daverhood
03:50:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED
03:52:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Irving Wardle
Leslie (Hoban) Blake
Ames, CO
your host

Dave’s Gone By #759 (8/15/2020): BLAKE LIVELIER

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Here is the 759th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, Aug. 15, 2020. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Guests: theater critic Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Jeffrey Kirsch, and Cynthia Shub Kirsch

Featuring: Greeley Crimes & Old Times; Inside Broadway; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Hayden); Wretched Pun of Destiny (Moses); and a revamped Today/Yesterday Quiz pitting theater critic Leslie (Hoban) Blake versus Dave’s cousins, Cynthia Shub Kirsch and Jeffrey Kirsch.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (quiz revamp, new potato!, new job)
01:24:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:45:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:00:00 PRE-QUIZ w/ the Kirsches
02:12:00 TODAY/YESTERDAY (Aug. 15) w/ Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Jeffrey Kirsch, Cynthia Shub Kirsch
03:30:00 WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY #80 (Moses)
03:35:00 Friends of the Daverhood
03:44:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Hayden)
03:47:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Leslie (Hoban) Blake
Dave, Cynthia Shub Kirsch & Jeffrey Kirsch, and Leslie (Hoban) Blake
your host sans potato
your host with potato!

Dave’s Gone By #749 (6/6/2020): THE 16th ANNUAL TOTALTHEATER BROADWAY SPECIAL

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Here is the 749th episode–our annual celebration of Broadway–of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired Saturday, June 6, 2020. More info: davesgoneby.com.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guests: actor Lewis J. Stadlen, theater critics Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Joe Dziemianowicz, Charles Gross, Eva Heinemann, Brian Scott Lipton, Ed Rubin, Simon Saltzman, David Sheward, Zachary Stewart. Dave’s wife Joyce.

Featuring: Dave chats with two-time Tony-nominated actor Lewis J. Stadlen (The Producers, Minnie’s Boys, The Nance); theater critics weigh in on the Broadway season and their favorite all-time shows; Rabbi Sol Solomon offers his Rabbinical Reflection on post-pandemic Broadway; a 2019-20 Broadway Timeline; Trivia Quiz.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:04:00 GUEST: Zachary Stewart
00:13:30 BROADWAY TIMELINE, pt. 1
00:28:00 TRIVIA QUIZ, pt. 1
00:35:00 BROADWAY TIMELINE, pt. 2
00:45:00 GUEST: Eva Heinemann
00:56:30 GUEST: Joe Dziemianowicz
01:09:00 BROADWAY TIMELINE, pt. 3
01:15:00 GUEST: David Sheward
01:29:00 GUEST: Lewis J. Stadlen
02:10:30 GUEST: Brian Scott Lipton
02:20:00 GUEST: Ed Rubin
02:35:00 BROADWAY TIMELINE, pt. 4
02:48:30 GUEST: Leslie (Hoban) Blake
03:02:00 GUEST: Simon Saltzman
03:18:00 BROADWAY TIMELINE, pt. 5
03:29:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #163 (Broadway 2020)
03:38:30 BROADWAY PASSINGS
03:42:30 BROADWAY TIMELINE, pt. 6
03:46:30 GUEST: Charles Gross
03:56:30 BROADWAY TIMELINE, pt. 7
04:05:30 TRIVIA QUIZ, pt. 2
04:14:30 DAVE GOES OUT

June 6, 2020 Playlist: “Road to Nowhere” (04:19:00; David Byrne’s American Utopia).

Leslie (Hoban) Blake
Joe Dziemianowicz
Charles Gross
Eva Heinemann
Brian Scott Lipton
Ed Rubin
David Sheward
Lewis J. Stadlen
Zachary Stewart
Rabbi Sol Solomon
Dave doing last year’s Tony show

Dave’s Gone By Interview (6/6/2020): LESLIE (HOBAN) BLAKE

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Dave Lefkowitz chats with Two on the Aisle theater critic Leslie (Hoban) Blake

Topics include: Tony Awards, COVID-19. 

Segment aired June 6, 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 #654 (6/9/2018): THE 14th ANNUAL TOTALTHEATER TONY SPECIAL

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Here is the 654th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, June 9, 2018. More info: davegsoneby.com. 

Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: Arvada Center artistic director of plays Lynne Collins, Dave’s wife Joyce, Rabbi Sol Solomon, and theater critic Leslie (Hoban) Blake & Charles Gross (“Two on the Aisle”), Joe Dziemianowicz (NY Daily News), Eva Heinemann (“Hi! Drama”), Michall Jeffers (TotalTheater.com), Simon Saltzman (Outer Critics Circle), Zachary Stewart (TheaterMania), Elisabeth Vincentelli (“Three on the Aisle”).

Featuring: A look at the 2017-2018 Broadway season and Tony Award nominees with interviews, trivia, showtunes, Broadway Timeline, a giveaway, and Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on the Tonys.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce
00:10:00 BROADWAY
00:26:00 GUEST: Leslie (Hoban) Blake
00:39:00 BROADWAY TIMELINE – 1984, Marvin’s Room, Prince of Broadway, Springsteen
00:52:00 GUEST: Joe Dziemianowicz
00:59:30 Sponsors – TotalTheater
01:03:00 GUEST: Michall Jeffers
01:15:00 BROADWAY TIME – Time and the Conways, M. Butterfly, Junk, The Band’s Visit, Latin History for Morons, Home for the Holidays
01:29:00 TRIVIA, part 1
01:34:00 BROADWAY TIMELINE – Meteor Shower, The Parisian Woman, Once on this Island, SpongeBob SquarePants
01:44:30 GUEST: Zachary Stewart
01:54:30 GUEST: Elisabeth Vincentelli
02:06:30 BROADWAY TIMELINE – Farinelli and the King, Stories by Heart, Escape to Margaritaville
02:20:00 Other Awards, part 1
02:24:30 BROADWAY TIMELINE – Frozen, Angels in America, Lobby Hero, Rocktopia
02:38:30 Sponsors – Hewlett Minuteman Press
02:43:00 GUEST: Lynne Collins
02:58:30 Giveaway 1
03:03:00 Other Awards, part 2
03:07:00 BROADWAY TIMELINE – Three Tall Women, Mean Girls
03:17:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #155 – 2018 Tonys
03:27:00 BROADWAY TIMELINE – Children of a Lesser God, Carousel
03:35:00 GUEST: Charles Gross
03:50:00 GUEST: Ed Rubin
04:04:00 Giveaway 2
04:07:00 Other Awards, part 3
04:09:30 GUEST: Simon Saltzman
04:20:00 BROADWAY TIMELINE – The Terms of My Surrender, My Fair Lady, Harry Potter, Summer
04:40:30 TRIVIA, part 2
04:49:30 GUEST: Eva Heinemann
05:01:00 BROADWAY TIMELINE – Travesties, Saint Joan, The Iceman Cometh
05:09:00 NEXT SEASON!
05:15:30 Thank Yous
05:20:00 DAVE GOES OUT

June 9, 2018 Playlist: “Sincerely Me” (00:22:30; Dear Evan Hansen 2016 Broadway cast). “You’ve Got Possibilities” (00:44:00; Prince of Broadway 2017 Broadway cast). “The Wish” (00:49:30; Bruce Springsteen). “It is What it Is” (01:23:30) & “Answer Me” (05:22:30; The Band’s Visit 2018 Broadway cast). “Some Girls” (01:38:00; Once on this Island 2018 Broadway cast). “SpongeBob SquarePants Theme” (01:44:00; SpongeBob SquarePants 2018 Broadway cast). “Tin Cup Chalice” (02:14:30; Escape to Margaritaville 2018 Broadway cast). “Let it Go” (“Frozen” 2013 film soundtrack). “Beethoven’s 9th” (02:36:00; “Rocktopia”). “I’d Rather Be Me” (03:13:30; Mean Girls 2018 Broadway cast). “If I Loved You” (03:32:00; Carousel 2018 Broadway cast). “Laura Benanti Explains the Plays” (03:47:00) & “Laura Benanti Explains the Musicals” (04:29:00; Laure Benanti). “A Hymn to Him” (04:26:00; My Fair Lady 1987 studio cast w/ Jeremy Irons). “On the Radio” (04:38:30; Donna Summer).


(pictured: Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Joe Dziemianowicz, Michall Jeffers, Zachary Stewart, Elizabeth Vincentelli, Lynne Collins, Charles Gross, Ed Rubin, Simon Saltzman, Eva Heinemann, Rabbi Sol Solomon)

Dave’s Gone By Interview (6/9/2018): LESLIE (HOBAN) BLAKE

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Dave Lefkowitz interviews Two on the Aisle theater critic Leslie (Hoban) Blake

Topics include: Tony Awards, choreography, My Fair Lady, Carousel, Mean Girls.
Segment airs June 9, 2018 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” 14th Annual TotalTheater Tony Special, hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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