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Dave’s Gone By Song (8/1/2012): SO YOU WANNA BE A JEW

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Dave’s Gone By Song (8/1/2012): SO YOU WANNA BE A JEW

Rabbi Sol Solomon extols the virtues of being a Jew, just like him.

This song was written for the live stage show, Shalom Dammit! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon, which was filmed Aug. 1, 2002 during the play’s run at off-off-Broadway’s Richmond Shepard Theater.

To date, the song has not been played on the “Dave’s Gone By” program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz. Full episodes are available on youtube, Facebook (davesgoneby), Spotify, and on DavesGoneBy.com.

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SO YOU WANNA BE A JEW

(Lyrics: David Lefkowitz. Music: Richard M. Sherman and Robert M. Sherman’s “I Wan’na be Like You (The Monkey Song)”.)

Well, I’m the head of a synagogue
in old Great Neck, New York
Although I am not orthodox
at least I don’t eat pork
(except spare ribs)

I am generally miserable
That’s just how I be
So it’s quite a shock
And my world is rocked
When I hear you wanna be like me.

Oh, You-hoo-hoo
You wanna be a Jew-hoo-hoo?
You wanna grow a beard
Dress up weird
Nu-hu-hu?

It’s all right
If you wanna be an Israelite
Just learn the laws
Ditch Santa Claus
And you just might

Now, you don’t have to get circumcised
Well, not if you’re a chick
But boy oh boy
If you’re a goy
You better go snip that dick

Now get two sets of dishes
And a prayer book, of course
Then find a wife
And spend your life
Praying for death or divorce

Oh, boo-hoo-hoo
Wanna be Hebrew-hoo-hoo
You wanna wake up sore
Kiss the door
Lose two pounds on Yom Kippur

Oh, boy-oy-oy
Who wants to be a goy-oy-oy?
Just drop the cross
No big loss
say “oy-oy-oy!”

It’s true that I’m outspoken
I’m sorry if I shout
But when Jews are quiet
You can’t deny it –
We tend to get rubbed out

So I say what I say,
that’s just my way
When I have you in my grip
And it’s just as well
`Cause I’m cute as hell
When I do my gaza strip

Ohh… ai ai ai
So you wanna be like this Rabbi
And like me, you’ll
Run a shul
For Adonai

Ki-yi-yids
You wanna be Yi-yi-yids
I’ve got lots more facts
In the second act
So come on baaack!
Dammit!

Dave’s Gone By Interview (6/9/2012): RICHMOND SHEPARD

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Dave Lefkowitz (joined in-studio by University of Northern Colorado musical director Richard Shore) chats with theater critic and producer Richmond Shepard.

Topics include: 2012 Tony Award nominations, theater criticism, Broadway, theater, Captain Crash versus the Zzorgwomen.

Segment originally aired June 9, 2012 on the annual Tony Awards Special of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #383 (4/21/2012): MAN OF LA MANCH

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Here is the 383rd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired April 21, 2012. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Dave chats with actress Catherine Russell (Perfect Crime) and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Melissa Manchester. Plus: Saturday Segue (Levon Helm tribute), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (in the Wind and in The Band) and Inside Broadway (Shrek and Marion Blumenthal-Lazan).

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guests: singer Melissa Manchester & actress Catherine Russell

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:11:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Levon Helm
00:35:30 GUEST: Melissa Manchester
01:19:00 Sponsors
01:33:00 GUEST: Catherine Russell
02:05:00 Weather
02:07:30 Dave on Shalom Dammit on Youtube
02:16:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (Shrek (02:17:00) & Marion Blumenthal-Lazan at UNC (02:28:00)
02:47:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (in the Wind & in The Band)
03:02:00 Friends
03:05:00 DAVE GOES OUT

April 21, 2012 Playlist: “The Shape I’m In” ({live}; 00:13:00) & “Anna Lee” (00:21:00; Levon Helm). “We Can Talk” (00:18:00), “Get Up Jake” (00:25:00) & “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” (03:07:30; The Band). “Looking Through the Eyes of Love” (00:29:30), “Rainbird” (00:33:00) & “Don’t Cry Out Loud” (01:14:00; Melissa Manchester). “The Perfect Crime #2” (The Decemberists; 01:27:00). “Perfect Crime” (02:01:30; The Story). “Morning Person” (02:25:00; Shrek Broadway cast w/ Sutton Foster). “Blowin’ in the Wind” (02:47:30), “Dontcha Tell Henry” (02:56:00) & “Under That Apple Suckling Tree” (02:58:00; Bob Dylan). “Blowin in the Wind” (Joan Baez; 02:50:30). “Blowin’ in the Wind” (Peter, Paul & Mary; 02:53:00).

Dave’s Gone By Skit: RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #039 (3/25/2012): Rave Review!

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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

Shalom Dammit! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon (full theatrical performance, 3/14/2012)

For those curious about Rabbi Sol Solomon’s stage show, SHALOM DAMMIT!, which played July 31-Aug. 12, 2012 at NYC’s Roy Arias Theater Center, here’s the video of the show’s workshop as it was staged last spring at the Richmond Shepard Theater. Enjoy!
To read the show’s rave reviews: http://www.totaltheater.com/?q=node/4575

“Shalom Dammit! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon” recorded live at NYC’s Richmond Shepard Theater, March 14, 2012.
Cast: Rabbi Sol Solomon, Richard Shore (piano, guest vocal).
Written by David Lefkowitz & Rabbi Sol Solomon. Directed by David Lefkowitz. Directorial Consultant: J. David Blatt. Musical Director: Richard Shore.
Stage Manager/Lighting Board Operator: Bill Bradford.
Videography: Evan Seplow.
Running time: 1 hr, 57 min.
To bring “Shalom Dammit!” to your theater, community center or halal slaughterhouse, contact Rabbi Sol: Shalomdammit@aol.com.

SONGS:
00:06:00 “Yeshiva Boy”
00:15:00 “I Know What Goys Like”
00:41:00 “Then You’re Jewish”
01:00:00 “So You Wanna Be a Jew”
01:09:00 “Shmini Atzeret”
01:31:00 “This Land”
01:44:00 “When Jewish is What You Are”
01:49:00 (encore) “The Bagel Boat Song”

Dave’s Gone By #378 (3/3/2012): REDD HEADS

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Here is the 378th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, March 3, 2012. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Dave chats with authors Eric Lefcowitz (“Monkee Business”) and Michael Seth Starr (“Black & Blue – The Redd Foxx Story”), and Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews musical director Richard Shore. Plus: Inside Broadway (news), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Mr. Jones), a Saturday Segue (the Monkees).

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guests: authors Michael Seth Starr and Eric Lefcowitz, musician Richard Shore

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:15:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – the Monkees
00:29:30 GUEST: Michael Seth Starr
01:21:00 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #38: Shalom Dammit in NY
01:29:00 GUEST: Eric Lefcowitz
01:48:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Richard Shore
02:10:30 Sponsors
02:17:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later: Mr. Jones
02:43:00 INSIDE BROADWAY
02:54:30 Thanks & Friends
03:01:30 DAVE GOES OUT

March 3, 2012 Playlist: “Daydream Believer” (00:18:00), “A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You” (00:21:00), “Cuddly Toy” (00:23:30), “Valleri” (00:26:00), “Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)” (01:25:00), “(Theme from) The Monkees” (01:45:30) & (“You and I”; 03:04:00; The Monkees) “Lucky Guy” (00:36:00) & “Live Excerpts” (01:16:00; Redd Foxx). “The Wake-Up Call” (01:47:30, New Orleans Klezmer Allstars). “Ay Ya Bibi” (02:06:30; Klezperanto). “Ballad of a Thin Man” (live, 02:17:00), “Million Dollar Bash – Version 1” (02:21:00), “I Shall Be Free No. 10” (02:23:30), “Angelina” (02:28:00), “On the Road Again” (2:35:00) & “Buckets of Rain” (02:37:30, Bob Dylan).

Dave’s Gone By Interview (3/3/2012): RICHARD SHORE & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Dave Lefkowitz is joined in-studio by University of Northern Colorado theater school music director Richard Shore to chat about the Rabbi’s show, Shalom Dammit! and productions at UNC and Little Theater of the Rockies.

Topics include: Shalom Dammit: An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon, University of Northern Colorado, Little Theater of the Rockies.

Segment originally aired March 3, 2012 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

All content (c)2012 TotalTheater Productions.

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Dave’s Gone By #377 (2/25/2012): GRADYWIT SCHOOL

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Here is the 377th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Feb. 25, 2012. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Dave chats with actor John Grady (Fear Factor: The Canine Edition). Plus: Inside Broadway, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (“deth” songs), a Saturday Segue (Canada), Rabbi Sol Solomon, and a musical farewell to Mike Melvoin.

Host: Dave Lefkowitz

Guest: actor John Grady
Notes: Musical segue edited out of final segment.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN
00:10:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Canada
00:52:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (part one)
00:59:30 GUEST: John Grady
01:37:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (part two)
01:44:00 Sponsors
01:52:30 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection – Shalom Dammit in NY
02:01:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (“deth”)
02:36:00 Friends
02:39:30 DAVE SAYS BYE – Mike Melvoin
02:55:00 Thanks & Weather
03:01:30 DAVE GOES OUT

Feb. 25, 2012 Playlist: “I Feel it All” (00:13:00; Feist). “Into the Fire” (00:17:00; Sarah McLachlan). “Blame Canada” (00:20:30; South Park – Bigger, Longer & Uncut, soundtrack). “Snowbird” (00:22:00; Anne Murray). “Lovin’ Cup” (00:24:00; Jane Siberry). “The Mummer’s Dance” (00:27:30; Loreena McKennitt). “Blue Guitar” (00:33:30; Cowboy Junkies). “All the Ways I Want You” (00:39:30; Bruce Cockburn). “A Case of You” (00:44:00; Joni Mitchell). “Fear is a Man’s Best Friend” (00:56:00; John Cale). “Falling Slowly” (01:33:00; “Once” film soundtrack w/ Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova). “Masters of War” ({live from “Real Live”}; 02:01:30), “Seven Curses” (02:07:30), “What Can I Do for You” (02:11:30), “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” ({live}; 02:17:30), “Blowin’ in the Wind” ({live}, 02:24:00) & “Death is Not the End” (02:28:00; Bob Dylan). “Stand By Me” (02:40:30; John Lennon). “Eggs and Sausage” (02:44:00; Tom Waits). “I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times” (02:50:00; The Beach Boys).

Dave’s Gone By Skit: RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #038 (2/19/2012): Shalom Dammit Live in NYC!

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RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #38 (2/19/2012): Shalom Dammit Live in NYC!

aired Feb. 18, 2012 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgs2DrV7tN4.

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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Dave’s Gone By #376 (2/18/2012): GO ASK ALICE ABOUT JUDYISM

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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).