Dave’s Gone By Interview (11/22/2025): BEN BRANTLEY

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Dave Lefkowitz chats with theater critic BEN BRANTLEY

Topics include: theater, Follies, Peppermint, Ivo van Hove, theater, Broadway, New York Times

Segment aired Nov. 22, 2025 as part of episode #1008 of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (10/11/2025): MANUEL IGREJAS & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with writer MANUEL IGREJAS

Topics include: Blue Man Group, playwriting, health

Segment airs Oct. 11, 2025 as part of episode #1003 of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (7/17/2021): ANN GREYSON & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with author ANN GREYSON, who stays on to play the Today/Yesterday trivia quiz with Leslie (Hoban) Blake and David Sheward

Topics include: ballet, horror fiction, writing

Segment aired July 17, 2021 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/podcast program #807 hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #782 (1/23/2021): 57 VARIETIES

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Here is the 782nd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, Jan. 23, 2021.

Guests: city planner Michael Levine, Dave’s cousin Adam Glass, theater critics Leslie (Hoban) Blake & David Sheward, and friends Fred Cleaver & Wendy Highby.

Featuring: Dave chats with his two cousins, urban planner Michael Levine and Adam Glass; Inside Broadway; Greeley Crimes & Old Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Beulah Valley); Today/Yesterday theater quiz (Jan. 23 w/ Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Fred Cleaver & Wendy Highby, & David Sheward).

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN (my birthday–looking forward and backward)
00:33:00 GUEST: Rosemary Weil
00:34:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES
01:00:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
01:17:00 GUEST: Adam Glass
01:36:00 TODAY/YESTERDAY Trivia Quiz (Jan. 23 w/ Leslie (Hoban) Blake, David Sheward, Fred Cleaver & Wendy Highby)
02:31:00 GUEST: Michael Levine
03:20:00 Friends of the Daverhood
03:28:00 Birthday Wishes
03:54:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED
03:57:00 DAVE GOES OUT

Jan. 23, 2021 Playlist: “Happy Birthday” (03:29:00; Art Paul Schlosser)

Dave’s Gone By Interview (4/4/2020): KEITH SHERMAN & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with publicist KEITH SHERMAN

Topics include: Broadway, Frank Sinatra, COVID-19, 42nd Street. 

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

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (3/21/2020): CHARLES BUSCH & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with playwright CHARLES BUSCH

Topics include: theater, Charles Ludlam, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Die Mommy Die, Northwestern University, drag.  

Segment aired March 7, 2020 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (11/10/2018): JILL SOBULE & Rabbi Sol Solomon

Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with singer-songwriter Jill Sobule

Topics include: Nostalgia Kills, I Put My Headphones On, Island of Lost Things, music, Pittsburgh.

Segment aired Nov. 10, 2018 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

Note: Farewell to our friend of the Daverhood, Jill Sobule, who passed May 2, 2025 at age 66.

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Dave’s Gone By Song (4/21/2018): CHESTER’S GAY

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A coming-out song about things going in.

Note: contains adult themes.

Song airs March 17, 2018, as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Chester’s Gay

(sung to the melody of John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s “Yesterday”)


Chester’s gay

Came out to his parents yesterday

Now he needs a place to hide away

They can’t believe that Chester’s gay

They can’t see 

he’s been hiding objects anally

And removing them quite painfully

Aw, Chester’s gay as a cucumber tree

He’ll go out to bars, 

and he’ll throw the night away

Then he’ll sit in cars and he’ll blow 

Because he’s gay, (gay gay gay)

Chester’s gay

And I don’t just mean he’s gay for pay

He’s a donut puncher all the way

Oh, why did Chester turn that way?

Mom and dad,

They don’t want to see their son as bad

But their Christian faith is ironclad

So now they’re feeling oh so sad.

Chester’s queer

He puts massive objects in his rear

Too bad mom and dad are so severe

`cause it’s so clear that Chester’s gay.

Mm hmm hmm hmm 

Chester’s gay.

©2018 David Lefkowitz

Dave’s Gone By #617 (8/12/2017): AVENUE BRU

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Here is the 617th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Aug. 12, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.

 Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: actress Stephanie D’Abruzzo (Avenue Q)

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews actress Stephanie D’Abruzzo and offers his Rabbinical Reflection on Trump n’ Trannies, Inside Broadway, Saturday Segues (Jerry Herman, In the News), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN (new plates, nixfinity, Avenue Q)
00:26:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News
01:14:30 Sponsors
01:18:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
01:58:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Stephanie D’Abruzzo
02:55:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Jerry Herman
03:14:00 Friends
03:23:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #149 (Trump n’ Trannies)
03:29:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later
04:06:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Aug. 12, 2017 Playlist: “Shake it Off” (00:28:30; Taylor Swift). “Google” (00:32:00; Ben Bailey). “Bang Bang Bang” (00:35:30; Big Bang). “White Boys” (00:39:30; Hair 2010 Broadway cast). “Gentle on My Mind” (00:41:30; Glen Campbell). “Move On” (01:50:30; Barbara Cook & Malcolm Gets). “The Internet is for Porn” (01:55:30), “There’s a Fine, Fine Line” (02:52:00) & “I Wish I were Back in College” (04:11:00; Avenue Q 2003 Broadway cast w/ Stephanie d’Abruzzo). “Time Heals Everything” (02:59:00; Georgia Brown). “Shalom” (03:03:30; Milk and Honey 1961 Broadway cast w/ Robert Weede). “I Don’t Want to Know” (03:06:30; Dear World 1969 Broadway cast w/ Angela Lansbury). “Waiting for the Morning Light” (03:33:00; Gene Simmons). “September on Jessore Road” (03:41:30; Allen Ginsberg). “Girl from the North Country” (03:55:00; Bob Dylan).


(pictured: Stephanie D’Abruzzo, Jerry Herman, Donald Trumpette)
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