| re: “Private Schwartz” OK, I’ll Bite…. |
| Posted by: AlanScott 03:47 pm EST 11/17/22 |
| In reply to: re: “Private Schwartz” OK, I’ll Bite…. - singleticket 03:30 pm EST 11/17/22 |
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Well, I didn't write "always." I wrote "almost always." I'm a great hedger.
A character like Simon O'Hara in Naughty Marietta has a stereotypical Irish name, not a Jewish name, but the role was played with a heavy Yiddish accent as Dutch comedy. That was part of the joke: Simon O'Hara is a Jew who thinks he can pass just by changing his name. I'm making it more serious than it was intended to be, or at least than it was consciously intended it to be. But I bring up this character because you can't always tell by looking at the page. Hard-Boiled Herman in Rose-Marie is another example. Not necessarily Jewish on the page, but Jewish onstage.
Of course, revivals often drop these things. |
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