‘The Music Man’ was the last great goyish musical
Meredith Willson’s 1957 hit isn’t even a little bit Jewish. It marks the last time this was true of a popular musical on the American stage.
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Culture Barry Manilow gives us harmony and Hebrew in a sometimes hammy musical
If “Memory” wasn’t already a marquee name in showtunes, Barry Manilow probably would have used the title for a song in his new musical. Now playing at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, “Harmony,” about the Comedian Harmonists, a sextet of German singer-comedians, is also all about memory – both history’s short recall for a popular…
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Culture Barry Manilow on dueling cantors, Levy’s Rye and his musical’s New York debut
Barry Manilow never meant to become a pop star, and his Grammy, Emmy and Tony-winning career as a songwriter is a source of perennial tsuris for his lyric-writing partner Bruce Sussman. If you ask them, “Mandy” came, gave and (forget what you heard) did some taking. That breakout hit diverted the pair’s original ambition: writing…
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Culture How Jewish songwriters wrote the love theme for Philip and Elizabeth
The Kennedys, thanks to Lerner and Loewe, will forever be associated with the English setting of Camelot. Their royal British counterparts chose “Oklahoma!” for their lifelong love theme. Queen Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Philip, who died April 9 at the age of 99, had a special affinity for the musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein,…
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The Schmooze ‘High School Musical’ star Ashley Tisdale is pregnant
Ashley Tisdale has disobeyed her own erstwhile advice and shaken up the status quo: the “High School Musical” star, 35, is pregnant with her first child. Tisdale broke the news through the humble medium that scores of celebrities have been forced to adopt since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic: a simple Instagram post staged…
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The Schmooze ‘The Prince Of Egypt’ Parts Waters For Splashy West End Debut — Is Broadway Next?
Many nights we prayed with no proof anyone could hear — but now, faithful fans of the 1998 DreamWorks movie “The Prince Of Egypt,” may soon get proof that miracles happen when you believe. The animated musical telling of the exodus story soared on screen (and then tape, CD, iTunes, and Spotify) thanks to the…
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The Schmooze A Neil Diamond Musical Is Headed To Broadway
There’s not a trace of doubt in our minds that a Neil Diamond musical is headed for Broadway. A new musical about the life and career of one of the most famous Jewish American singers of the last fifty years is currently in development, Deadline reported. The age of biopic musicals on the Great White…
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The Schmooze The Next Musical TV Show Is In The Works, From Creator Of Your Favorite Female Comedies
After four spectacularly Jewish and musically delightful seasons, Rachel Bloom’s CW hit “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” ended in April, and with it, our dreams of seeing a loudmouthed Jewish woman sing show-tunes on network television. Or so we believed. NBC has picked up “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist,” a musical television show about a woman who starts hearing other…
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