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Here is the 531st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Nov. 7, 2015. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actress Megan McGinnis(Daddy Long Legs). Plus: Inside Broadway, Greeley Times, Saturday Segues (Joni Mitchell, Neil Young), Dylan – Sooner & Later
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guest: actress Megan McGinnis
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (frosty, mount slushy, anise, chili, Jerusha) 00:34:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES w/ Joyce 01:17:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Joni Mitchell 01:46:00 Sponsors 01:51:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news & reviews (Big Apple Circus (02:14:30) & Dames at Sea (02:13:00)). 02:29:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Megan McGinnis 03:12:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (varied) 03:32:00 Friends 03:39:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Neil Young 04:05:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Nov. 7, 2015 Playlist: “Frosti” (00:03:00; Bjork). “Night in the City” (01:22:00), “Lesson in Survival” (01:24:00), “Sometimes I’m Happy” (01:31:00) & “Shine” (01:13:00; Joni Mitchell). “A Case of You” (01:27:30; Prince). “That Mister Man of Mine” (02:23:00; Dames at Sea 1969 off-Broadway cast w/ Tamara Long). “Excerpts from Daddy Long Legs” (02:27:00; w/ Paul Alexander Nolan & Megan McGinnis). “The Secret of Happiness” (03:05:30; Megan McGinnis). “Visions of Johanna” ({alternate version}; 03:14:30) & “Foot of Pride” (03:21:30; Bob Dylan). “Under the Red Sky” (03:18:00; Frenchy Burrito). “I’ve Been Waiting for You” (03:43:30), “Angry World” (03:46:00), “Down, Down, Down” (03:50:00) & “Inca Queen” (03:52:00; Neil Young). “The Soldiering” (04:13:00; The Decemberists).
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Here is the 482nd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Nov. 1, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with xylophonist Ian Finkel; Inside Broadway; Saturday Segues (November, Wild Man Fischer); Wretched Pun of Destiny (doves); Dylan – Sooner & Later (elections).
Guest: musician Ian Finkel
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce Weil (Marcia Strassman, Jack Bruce, couch mess) 00:55:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – November 01:17:00 Sponsors 01:27:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news 01:27:30; reviews: Signal Failure (01:43:00), Bedbugs! (01:46:00)) 02:01:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Ian Finkel 02:41:30 THE WRETCHED PUN OF DESTINY – Doves 02:45:00 Friends 02:51:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (elections) 03:27:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Wild Man Fischer 03:50:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Nov. 1, 2014 Playlist: “Remember November” (00:55:00; Juliana Hatfield). “November” (00:59:00; Duncan Sheik). “November 5” (01:04:00; Love Spit Love). “November” (01:08:00; Tom Waits). “Mr. November” (01:11:00; The National). “Don’t Let the Bedbugs Bite” (01:56:30; Bedbugs! 2014 off-Broadway cast w/ Chris Hall). “S’Wonderful” (01:58:30) & “Not on the Top” (02:38:00; Fyvush Finkel). “I Shall Be Free” ({Witmark demo} 02:57:30), “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” (03:02:00) & “Highlands” (03:07:30; Bob Dylan). “Merry Go Round” (03:35:00), “Cops and Robbers” (03:37:00), “I’m the Meany” (03:38:30), “One of a Kind Mind” (03:40:00), “I Light the Pilot” (03:40:30), “Love Love Love in Everything You Do” (03:41:00), “Teen Age Idol” (03:42:30) & “Start Life Over Again” (03:45:00; Wild Man Fischer). “Take it Back” (03:58:00; Cream).
xylophoneIan FinkelWild Man FischerSignal Failure (w/ Sasha Ellen & Spencer Cowan)Bedbugs (with Grace McLean)
Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with producer Joe Corcoran
Topics include: Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding, Late Nite Catechism, lung cancer, Dr. Zhivago.
Segment aired April 26, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews “Fancy Nancy” theater composers Danny Abosch & Susan DiLallo
Topics include: musical theater, NYU, Fancy Nancy – The Musical.
Segment originally aired May 25, 2013, as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Segment originally aired March 9, 2013 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave Lefkowitz interviews theatrical director Michelle Bossy
Topics include: Unplugged In, theater, Primary Stages, off-Broadway.
Segment originally aired May 26, 2012 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave Lefkowitz interviews actress and producer Catherine Russell
Topics include: Perfect Crime, theater.
Segment originally aired April 21, 2012 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 382nd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, April 14, 2012. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with monologuist Andrew Goffman(The Accidental Pervert) and with actresses Gretchen Cryer and Miriam Kulick(Open Hearts). Plus: Dave chats with folksinger Eliza Gilkyson. Also: Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (taxes), Saturday Segue (Robin Gibb).
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: musician Eliza Gilkyson, actor Andrew Goffman, writer Gretchen Cryer, actress Miriam Kulick
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:09:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Robin Gibb 00:31:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Gretchen Cryer & Miriam Kulick 01:17:00 Sponsors & Weather 01:30:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Andrew Goffman 02:20:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (taxes) 02:33:00 GUEST: Eliza Gilkyson 02:53:00 Thanks & Friends 02:59:30 DAVE GOES OUT
April 14, 2012 Playlist: “I Close My Eyes” (00:11:30), “To Love Somebody” (00:13:30), “In My Own Time” (00:16:30), “Red Chair Fade Away” (00:19:00), “Close Another Door” (00:21:30) & “Massachusetts” (00:26:30; The Bee Gees). “Strong Woman Number” (00:29:00) & “Old Friends” (01:10:00; I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking it on the Road London cast w/ Diane Langton). “Generation Sex” (01:26:30; The Divine Comedy). “Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine” (02:13:00; James Brown). “Copper Kettle” (02:20:30) & “Ballad of a Thin Man” ({live Budokan version} Bob Dylan; 02:24:00). “Looking for a Place” (02:30:00), “Midnight on Raton” (02:48:30) & “Blue Moon Night” (03:00:30; Eliza Gilkyson).
(pictured: Gretchen Cryer, Gretchen Cryer, Miriam Kulick, Eliza Gilkyson, Andrew Goffman in The Accidental Pervert, Barry Gibb.)
Topics include: theater, Corn Bread and Feta Cheese, off-off-Broadway.
Segment originally aired March 31, 2012 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #39 (3/25/2012): Rave Review!
Aired March 24, on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AONO3DfOp1k&t=141s
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of March 25th, 2012.
Well, I am back in Colorado after doing my big, whopping, $1.98 off-off-off-off-off-off-Broadway show: Shalom Dammit! An Evening with Me, Rabbi Sol Solomon. We did five performances at the Richmond Shepard Theater, a playhouse so off the beaten path, the Bermuda Triangle goes there to vacation.
But somehow, people made it to the theater on East 26th Street. They came to see me talk about Jewish life, religion, the middle east, assimilation, the Holocaust and other hilarious topics for a night at the theater. My musical director, Richard Shore, and I, had a marvelous time rehearsing, playing, cutting, trimming, making the best show we possibly could for the least amount of money we could possibly get away with.
Well, my friends, there is no accounting for taste, which is why I am shocked but delighted to say that Shalom Dammit! the stage show received its first review – and it’s a rave! And not like one of those raves where teenagers lick yellow decals and then start shtupping the walls – no! Our show in New York got a review so good, I’d like to cover it with sour cream and eat it with a soup spoon.
It’s by Elizabeth Ahlfors, of CityCabaret.com, and it’s published on TotalTheater.com. Now: full disclosure – Dave Lefkowitz, the host of this show, also works for TotalTheater.com and he edits the writing of Elizabeth Ahlfors for publication. Their dealings are purely professional, so apart from some bribery money changing hands, her review is absolutely heartfelt and legitimate. Which is more than I can say for my show.
If you don’t believe me, read the full review of Shalom Dammit! at TotalTheater. In it she says things like – and I quote – “A comedy, a passionate sermon, a witty diatribe, a musical. It’s all of the above – in full-volume yelling.” Me? Yelling? She must have me confused with . . . every other middle-class Jewish man in the world.
Ms. Ahlfors also says about me that I’m “ebullient, angry (because why shouldn’t I be?), opinionated, outspoken, supremely self-confident and hilarious!” No one’s called me hilarious since that time I farted on the bimah during Yom Kippur. And let’s face it, that’s an easy gag for a captive audience.
She closes her big review with the best line of all: “Shalom Dammit!, with all its fervor and fury, is a good time.” That’s a money review, ladies and gentleman. And I paid good money for it.
So now we shall see the next step in the commercial path of Shalom Dammit!. We may come back in April and do a couple more shows. We may hit a fringe festival or two . . . because my tallis has award-winning fringes. Or who knows? We may play the occasional Jewish center, nursing home or women’s prison.
If you saw Shalom Dammit! in New York and you agree with this review, do your part! Tell family and friends and people you no longer want to be your friends that you can’t wait to see Shalom Dammit! in your bedraggled town or village. You must know people with money – you’re Jewish! Tell them a couple of hundred dollars they can be investors and gain the satisfaction of knowing they’ll never see that money again, but they’ll have helped spread yiddishkeit, love and possibly herpes to theatergoers all over America.
My thanks go out to Elizabeth Ahlfors, the brilliant, insightful critic; to Richard Shore, to Richmond Shepard, to Bill the stage manager and Jeff the box-office boychick, and to everyone who visited the Richmond Shepard Theater to partake in Shalom Dammit! the show.
Not to paraphrase Hitler but: today East 26th Street, tomorrow West 26th Street!
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches and off-off-Broadway hit!
Note: here is the review: http://www.totaltheater.com/?q=node/4470
