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bjbjLULU RABBINICAL REFLECTION RABBINICAL REFLECTION #39 Shalom Dammit! Live in NYC
Scheduled to air March 24, on Dave s Gone By. Youtube clip: 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. 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 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 *** 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 *** and off-off-Broadway hit!
Note: here is the review: http://www.totaltheater.com/?q=node/4470 (c) 2012 TotalTheater. All rights reserved.
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