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
Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews comedian Steve Solomon
Topics include: My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish and I’m in Therapy.
Segment originally aired March 24, 2012 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Complete Original Broadcast: http://www.totaltheater.com/?q=node/4472
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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!
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Here is the 376th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Feb. 18, 2012. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Dave chats with legendary songstress Judy Collins and Tony-winning actress Alice Ripley. Plus: Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on his stage show in NYC, Inside Broadway, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Collins covers), and a 75th birthday chat with Dave’s dad, Philip Lefkowitz.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: singer Judy Collins, actress Alice Ripley, Dave’s dad Philip Lefkowitz
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:04:00 GUEST: Judy Collins 00:53:30 Sponsors 01:01:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news, Dancing at Lughnasa (01:07:30)) 01:16:00 GUEST: Alice Ripley 02:08:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Collins covers) 02:30:00 Weather 02:34:00 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection – Shalom Dammit in NY 02:38:30 GUEST: Philip Lefkowitz 02:55:00 Thanks & Friends 03:01:30 DAVE GOES OUT 03:05:00 Promo – Shalom Dammit! in NY
Feb. 18, 2012 Playlist: “The Blizzard” (00:32:00), “So Early, Early in the Spring” (00:39:30), “Send in the Clowns” (00:42:00), “Cactus Tree” (00:46:30), “Pity the Poor Immigrant” (02:08:30), “Tomorrow is a Long Time” (02:12:30), “Just Like a Woman” (02:16:30), “Dark Eyes” (02:21:30; Judy Collins), “Daddy, You’ve Been on My Mind” (02:25:30; Judy Collins). “I Miss the Mountains” (Next to Normal orig. Bway cast w/ Alice Ripley), “Beautiful Eyes” (02:01:00; Alice Ripley), “If We Never Meet Again” (03:03:00; Emily Skinner & Alice Ripley).
Segment originally aired March 5, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
Note: Elliot Tiber passed away 8/3/16.
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Topics include: The Screwtape Letters, off-Broadway.
Segment originally aired Nov. 6, 2010 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
Apologies for some sound quality issues in the recording of this interview – sorry!
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Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews veteran actor Burt Edwards
Topics include: theater, Virginia, off-Broadway.
Segment originally aired Sept. 22, 2009 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
Sad Note: Our Friend of the Daverhood, Burt Edwards, passed Feb. 25, 2013 at age 85.
Please Note: Interview segments extracted from “Dave’s Gone By” may have music and other elements removed for timing and media re-posting considerations. For the full interview with all elements, please visit the audio of the complete original broadcast: Full Episode
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More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com More information on Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com
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Here is the 301st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, Jan. 4, 2009. Info: davesgoneby.com.
host: Dave Lefkowitz guest co-host: Jeff Goodman guests: filmmaker and cinematographer Evan Seplow (of Stagebuddy.com), Rabbi Sol Solomon, spiritual leader of Temple Sons of Bitches, Great Neck, NY, and Dave’s wife, Joyce.
Featuring: filmmaker and Stagebuddy.com founder Evan Seplow. Plus Inside broadway and Rabbi Sol Solomon’s thoughts on the New Year and the conflict in Gaza.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:10:00 GUEST: Evan Seplow 00:31:00 SKIT: Rabbi Sol Solomon on the New Year and Gaza 00:46:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (The Marvelous Wonderettes, The Garden of Earthly Delights, closing shows, and Dave’s wife Joyce calls in to review Stagebuddy.com’s Weekly Night Live 01:12:00 DAVE GOES OUT
January 4, 2009 Playlist: “Together Again” (Young Frankenstein, “You Can’t Stop the Beat” (Hairspray).
Evan SeplowThe Marvelous WonderettesThe Garden of Earthly DelightsGaza housewarmingRabbi Sol Solomon
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Here is the 291st episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on NY’s WGBB-AM radio, Sept. 21, 2008. Info: Davesgoneby.com.
host: Dave Lefkowitz guest co-host: Jeff Goodman guests: singer-actor Greg Purnhagen and theater critic Iris Dorbian
Featuring actor-singer Greg Purnhagen(Babalu-cy!) and theater critic Iris Dorbian.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:17:00 GUEST: Greg Purnhagen 00:46:00 INSIDE BROADWAY – News & a review of The Quarrel w/ critic Iris Dorbian 01:01:00 DAVE GOES OUT
September 21, 2008 Playlist: “Straw Hat Song” (Greg Purnhagen), “Ahi Viene La Conga,” “Babalu” & “I’ll Dream Some More” (Desi Arnaz). “Xanadu” (Kerry Butler, orig. Bway cast).
