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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with theatrical composer SETH BISEN-HERSH
Topics include: cabaret, Love Quirks
Segment aired April 30, 2022 as part of the 847th episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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In the virtual press room for the 2021 Tony Awards, held Sept. 26, 2021, Rabbi Sol Solomon got to ask a question of Jagged Little Pill Tony-winning book writer, Diablo Cody.
Segment aired May 1, 2021 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: author Iris Dorbian, Dave’s wife Joyce
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews author Iris Dorbian, Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Today Yesterday (Aug. 17), Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Manassa), StoryTime (Why Fish Fart, pt. 6).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN (podcast explosion, Splash Magazine story, Sweet 16) 00:38:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Manassa) 00:42:00 TODAY YESTERDAY – Aug. 17 01:02:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Iris Dorbian 01:32:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news & review (Midsummer – A Banquet (01:38:00) & Pretty Woman (01:58:00)). 02:13:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 02:31:00 STORYTIME (Why Fish Fart, pt. 6) 02:49:00 Friends of the Daverhood 02:57:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Aug. 17, 2019 Playlist: “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” (00:42:00). “You and I” (02:09:00; Pretty Woman 2019 Broadway cast).
Iris Dorbian
Sentenced to Shakespeare by Iris Dorbian
Manassa, CO
Midsummer A Banquet photographed at Cafe Fae in Manhattan. CREDIT: Chad BatkaPretty Woman
RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #72 (6/30/2013): Shalom Dammit in Greeley
Aired June 30, 2013 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS3_41e-NUc
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of June 30th, 2013.
Do you live in Colorado? That makes you a very lucky person. Unless you’re getting burnt up by the forest fires, but other than that, the mountains are gorgeous, the weather is stunning, the prices are fair, and all the men carry guns, but they don’t point them directly at you.
If you’re in or near Greeley, Colorado next week, you’re even luckier because you get to see me, Rabbi Sol Solomon, live and in the flesh. On July 6th at two in the afternoon and seven in the evening, I’m going to be doing my one-man, two-person show, Shalom Dammit! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon, live onstage. The venue is the exciting new cultural center in town, Art Space Greeley. It’s this big building on the corner of 7th Avenue and 12th Street that used to be a garage. Which is appropriate because my first shul was in a gas station. My congregation would say a few prayers, then a car would come, we’d make a blessing, wash the windows, and siphon a gallon here and there to light our menorah. Ah, those were the days.
But now I’m a big off-Broadway star, because I did Shalom Dammit! last year in New York, and the critics raved! They also ranted, but mostly they raved. They called my show hilarious, outrageous, biting, wildly funny, courageous and even a little dangerous. Those are actual quotes – I didn’t even have to bribe anybody. Not that I could have on my budget. This is live theater; if it wasn’t for volunteers and sexual favors, nobody could afford to live.
Actually, there is a little money in this production, courtesy of The Community Foundation of Weld County. They actually gave us a grant to do Shalom Dammit! in Greeley, Colorado. They didn’t give us enough to do it right, but they gave us enough to do it. So I can go up there, shout at people for an hour and a half, sing some songs and then escape to the parking lot before the goyim come after me with torches. And because we have government funding for this production, tickets are cheap! Only five dollars for adults, seniors and the indigent. Students with valid ID pay only $3 to get in. That’s less than a latte! Three dollars – that’s six ten-thousandths of a cent per second – a bargain! Broadway shows, it’s worse than a taxi ride; it’s a dollar a minute! And forget about phone-sex lines. Especially on my budget.
But seriously: cheap tickets to see a hit show with me, Rabbi Sol, and my brilliant musical accompanist, Richard Shore on the piano. He’s a Harvard-educated musical director at the University of Northern Colorado, and ladies, he’s single! By the way, ladies, I am not. So stop with the candy and the letters and the threats already, my wife checks my mail.
Anyhoo, what is Shalom Dammit! about? It’s about 90 minutes, with no intermission. That’s right – we’ve streamlined it. We’ve cut and shaped and trimmed, added and deleted, polished and buffed. If you saw Shalom Dammit! when it was workshopped at the university two years ago, you’re in for a completely different experience. Well, 25-to-30 percent different, but with new songs, new jokes, and a laser-etched focus to my dyspepsia. In other words, it’s more of the same with less of the same, but more, more or less. I talk about politics, religion, the Jewish holidays, Arab terrorists, assimilation, Christianity and my prostate. All the things that Jews are scared of.
So please, if you’re in Greeley during Stampede Week – be careful, you could get trampled. But on Saturday July 6th, come to my show, matinee or evening, of: Shalom Dammit! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon, at Art Space Greeley, 705 12th Street. For more information and reservations, visit my website: Shalomdammit.com. That’s dammit with two M’s, d-a-m-m-i-t. M and M. M & M? That reminds me, I’m hungry – for the spotlight! See you at the theater on July 6th.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.
Here is the 390th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, June 23, 2012. Info: davesgoneby.
Featuring: Dave chats with actor Dakin Matthews and recounts his trip to Milwaukee. Plus: Inside Broadway (Little Theater of the Rockies), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Wisconsin), and a phone call from Jeff Goodman.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: actor Dakin Matthews, former co-host Jeff Goodman, Dave’s wife Joyce.
00:00:00 DAVE GOES IN 00:13:30 Sponsors 00:16:30 GUEST: Dakin Matthews 00:55:30 DAVE GOES OFF – Milwaukee 01:30:30 Sponsors 01:38:00 GUEST: Joyce Weil 01:41:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Wisconsin) 02:10:00 Weather 02:12:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news; 02:12:30) 02:21:30 GUEST: Jeff Goodman 02:53:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (review: The Boys Next Door (02:53:30), The 39 Steps (02:55:00), next to normal (02:57:30). 03:07:00 Friends & Thanks 03:13:00 DAVE GOES OUT
July 23, 2012 Playlist: “The Milwaukee Song” (Jewel; 00:10:30). “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” (00:15:00; Kiss Me, Kate, 1948 Bway cast). “Wisconsin” (00:53:00; Bon Iver). “Highway 51” (01:41:30), “Frankie & Albert” (01:44:00), “Watching the River Flow” (01:48:00), “Dusty Old Fairgrounds” (01:51:30), “Moonshiner” (01:57:00), “Million Dollar Bash – Version 1” (02:02:00; Bob Dylan). “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” (Ethel Merman; 02:49:00). “Superboy and the Invisible Girl” (03:02:30; next to normal, 2010 Bway cast). “Goodbye Old Girl” (Pajama Game, 1994 Bway cast).
Dakin MatthewsGypsy at Temple B’nai Torahnext to normal at UNCJeff Goodman
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of February 19th, 2012.
(sings, to “Molly Malone”)
“Alive, alive oyyy… Alive, alive oyyy Come see me, I’m acting Alive, alive oyyy.”
Remember a few weeks ago, I did my one man show at the University of Northern Colorado? Of course you don’t; nobody remembers anything anymore. But I’m reminding you. I did a workshop production of my show, Shalom Dammit! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon, in Greeley, Colorado, just to get an idea whether people would tolerate it.
Well, not only did most audiences tolerate it, some even endured it! Which is why I am bringing my show, Shalom Dammit!, to the next step. I’m gonna do it off-off-Broadway for a week in March, and I’m inviting you all to come.
Shalom Dammit! is a one-man, two-person show with comedy, music and a lot of yelling. It’s my sermon on the problems and joys – but mostly problems – of American-Jewish life in the twenty-first century. I teach the audience some words in Hebrew and Yiddish – words like schmuck and tuchas and pastrami! Ahhhh… pastrami.
I also talk about world religions in a deeply introspective and insulting way. I delve into the middle-east conflict and come up with my hands dirty. Filthy actually. Extremely unsanitary And I touch on such touchy topics as the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, Jews for Jesus, assimilation, alienation and constipation. As you can see, some content is not suitable for children, or anyone for that matter, but hey, it’s New York, so I have to be edgy.
My onstage musical director will be Richard Shore, a talented man who actually went to Harvard and got a doctoral degree from Boston University. See mom? I don’t have to BE a Jewish doctor . . . I got one working for me!
And just in case funny songs and intellectual content and comedy aren’t enough for you, there’s multi-media – I do a PowerPoint. There’s improvisation – I answer your stupid questions. And there’s love, because goddammit, that’s what I’m all about.
Shalom Dammit! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon plays March 13 to 17, at the Richmond Shepard Theater, a sweet little playhouse at 309 East 29th Street near 2nd Avenue. If you blink, you miss the place – so don’t blink!
My show plays only one week, starting March 13th. Tuesday at 2, Thursday-through-Saturday at 2, Wednesday at 7:30. Tickets are only $18. Chai! And if you’re in school or old enough to wear dignity pants, you get a $3 student or senior discount.
Buy your tickets now at brownpapertickets.com. Go figure we’d have a ticket service that sounds like used toilet tissue. Brownpapertickets.com.
And visit ShalomDammit.com for more information about my wonderful show. See it before it gets to Broadway and the only ones who can afford it are goyische anti-Semites with corporate charge accounts.
Shalom Dammit! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon at the Richmond Shepard Theater. It’s the next-best thing to Moshiach.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches and off-off-Broadway star!
Dave Lefkowitz interviews actor and dancer George Chakiris
Topics include: West Side Story.
Segment originally aired Jan. 21, 2012 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 324th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which debuted Jan. 23, 2010. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Dave chats with David Newell, beloved Mr. McFeely of TV’s Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. Plus: Inside Broadway (Finian’s Rainbow) and farewells to Effie Mihopoulos & Kate McGarrigle.
host: Dave Lefkowitz guest: David Newell (aka Mr. McFeely from “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood”)
00:00:00 DAVE GOES IN 00:14:00 GUEST: David Newell 00:51:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (theater news, Finian’s Rainbow) 01:14:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Jan. 23, 2010 Playlist: “How are Things in Glocca Morra?” (Finian’s Rainbow original Bway cast), “Talk to Me of Mendocino” (Kate McGarrigle).
David NewellDavid NewellFinian’s RainbowKate McGarrigleEffie Mihopoulos
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Here is the 298th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, Dec. 7, 2008. Info: davesgoneby.com.
host: Dave Lefkowitz guest co-host: Jeff Goodman guest: actress Andrea Reese (Cirque Jacqueline)
Featuring actress Andrea Reese(Cirque Jacqueline). Plus: Inside Broadway (Billy Elliot)
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:13:00 GUEST: Andrea Reese 00:37:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (Billy Elliot) 01:01:00 DAVE GOES OUT
