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re: Half Jewish???

Posted by:	Glitter 12:30 am EDT 08/06/14
In reply to:	re: Half Jewish??? - LegitOnce 10:59 pm EDT 08/05/14

I think you're on to something there, LegitOnce. During "A Masque", the mayor and villagers sing "We all got rich" then whisper "...during World War 2". I've always taken that to be an indication that the villagers aren't wholesome and innocent as they believe themselves to be. As Kander and Ebb originally wrote it, a character made it more explicit, with a character singing: "as you said, she is a hebrew." It was re-written for the Goodman version as "jewess", and followed up with her "pretending to be a lady, but 50% a gypsy, %50 a jewess, %100 a bastard, and 200% a whore"

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