Bar Mitzvah Boy (musical)

Bar Mitzvah Boy

Music	Jule Styne
Lyrics	Don Black
Book	Jack Rosenthal
Basis	1976 BBC1 teleplay Bar Mitzvah Boy
Productions	1978 West End 1987 Off-Broadway

Bar Mitzvah Boy is a musical with a book by Jack Rosenthal, lyrics by Don Black, and music by Jule Styne.

Based on Rosenthal's award-winning 1976 BBC1 teleplay of the same name, it focuses on young Eliot Green who, filled with apprehension, escapes from the synagogue where he is about to make his bar mitzvah, much to the dismay of his middle class parents, who have invested their savings in a lavish party to celebrate their son's coming of age.

The West End production opened on 31 October 1978 at Her Majesty's Theatre, where it ran for 78 performances. The cast included Barry Angel, Joyce Blair, Zelah Clarke, Leonie Cosman, Ray C. Davis, Gordon Faith, Ashley Knight, Benny Lee, Barry Martin, Vivienne Martin, Harry Towb, Kerry Shale and Peter Whitman. CBS released an original cast recording.^[1]

The Americanized adaptation by Martin Gottfried changed the setting from 1970s Britain to 1946 Brooklyn, but its central story remained the same.

The off-Broadway production, directed by Robert Kalfin, opened on June 10, 1987 at the American Jewish Theater of the 92nd Street Y. The cast included Peter Smith as Eliot, with Larry Keith, Mary Gutzi, Mary Stout, Michael Cone, Michael Callan, Eleanor Reissa, Daniel Marcus, Kimberly Stern, and Reuben Schafer.

A reading was held on January 26, 2007 at the Chelsea Studios, New York City, directed by Stafford Arima and featuring Faith Prince, Daniel Reichard and Peter Friedman. ^[2]

Song list

Why?
If Only A Little Bit Sticks
The Bar Mitzvah of Eliot Green
This Time Tomorrow
Thou Shalt Not
The Harolds Of This World
We've Done Alright
Simchas
You Wouldn't Be You
Rita's Request
Where is the Music Coming From?
The Sun Shines Out of Your Eyes
I've Just Begun

References

↑ Listing castalbumdb.com
↑ Pincus-Roth, Zachary."Prince, Reichard, Friedman and Others Cast in Bar Mitzvah Boy Reading Jan. 26" playbill.com, January 25, 2007

External links

The works of Jack Rosenthal

Television writing	Coronation Street (1961–69) Pardon the Expression (1965–66) There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah (1968) The Dustbinmen (1969–70) The Lovers (1970–71) Another Sunday and Sweet F.A. (1972) The Evacuees (1975) Ready When You Are, Mr. McGill (1976) Bar Mitzvah Boy (1976) Spend, Spend, Spend (1977) London's Burning (1986) Day To Remember (1986) And a Nightingale Sang (1989) About Face (1989–91) Wide-Eyed and Legless (1993) Eskimo Day (1996)

Films	The Lucky Star (1980) P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang (1982) Yentl (1983) The Chain (1984) Captain Jack (1999) Chicken Run (2000)

Stage works	Bar Mitzvah Boy (musical) (1978)

Musicals by Jule Styne

Don Black

Musicals

Billy (1974)
Bar Mitzvah Boy (1978)
Dear Anyone
Budgie
Tell Me on a Sunday (1979)
The Little Prince and the Aviator (1981)
Song and Dance (1982)
Merlin (1983)
Aspects of Love (1989)
Sunset Boulevard (1993)
Dracula, the Musical (2001)
Bombay Dreams (2002)
Brighton Rock (2004)
Feather Boy (2005)
Bonnie & Clyde (2011)
Stephen Ward the Musical (2013)
Mrs Henderson Presents (2015)

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