Broadway Caroline, or Change the Musical - The Chanukah Party Lyrics
THE GELLMANS & MR. STOPNICK: Chanukah or Chanukah, Oh Dreydl and Menorah! We celebrate it even though It isn't in the Torah! Talmud barely mentions it, The way they kept their candle lit; Sages in their colloquies Say bupkes bout the Maccabees And how with very little fuss They routed King Antiochus. Antiochus! Pooh! Who cares what all the sages say? We celebreate it anyway! Chanukah oh Chanukah, From Astrakhan to Panama, All along that isthmus, We're celebrating Chanukah, Especially in America!
GRANDMA GELLMAN: A whole week more than Christmas!
ROSE: You may think it's December, But Noah, dear, remember, Tonight is Kislev Twenty-Five!
THE ADULT GELLMANS & MR. STOPNICK: And every single Jew alive, Oy Noahleh, oy bubaleh, Oy vontzeleh oy pishkeleh, Sings happy happy Chanukah, Especially in America! American American God shed His grace on thee, Where every Jew's a Maccabee And crown'd thy good with brotherhood? And bade our blessings multiply
NOAH: Boruch ata adonai eloheinu melech ha'olam Asher kidshanu b'mitzvotav vitzivanoo L'hadlich ner shel Chanukah.
THE ADULT GELLMANS & MR. STOPNICK: Mi kamocha ba-eilim Adonai? Mi kamocha ne-e-dar ba-ko-desh? No-ra t'hilot o-se fe-le, No-ra t'hilot o-se fe-le. Omayn.
CAROLINE: Give that liver salad a toss And watch the goose don't let it dry. Spoon them jars of applesauce And put them pancakes in the fry! If you don't fry 'em right away They start turning grey.
NOAH: Know why they're fried in chicken fat?
EMMIE: To crisp 'em up.
CAROLINE: Noah, scat! You's bothering us, you's underfoot.
NOAH: To symbolize the Temple Oil.
CAROLINE: Dot, don't let the gravy boil! Noah, scoot, I got no use for you tonight.
EMMIE: How about the goose? Does that mean something?
NOAH: That's just food.
ROSE: Noah, out! It's very rude To bother people when they're busy. You aren't needed in here. Is he?
CAROLINE: No he ain't.
ROSE: Go on, don't pout. Go on out, and see our friends, he never listens!
MR. STOPNICK: The South is in a mighty frenzy!
ROSE: Time to bring the latkes out! Noah tell them food is coming.
MR. STOPNICK: Wait and see! The old world's ending! Negroes marching! Change is coming! Down with the filthy capitalist chazzerim!
ROSE: Come and visit with Grandpa Stopnick, All the way from New York City!
MR. STOPNICK: Just like we predicted back in the 30s, All the negroes got to do now Is stop this nonsense about nonviolence!
GRANDMA & GRANDPA GELLMAN: Scary scary such a tsimmes, Negroes in Louisiana Aren't like in Mississippi, Not as mad as Alabama. Anyway is this the way To talk on Erev Chanukah? Let's not dwell on ugly things! Let's thank God for the joys He brings! Watch the colored candles melt! Spin the dreydl for Chanukah Gelt! Let's be merry, let's be funny!
GRANDMA GELLMAN: Noah, look!
GRANDPA GELLMAN: It's chocolate money!
GRANDMA AND GRANDPA GELLMAN: Let's wish our negro neighbors well!
MR. STOPNICK: And may Bull Connor roast in hell!
THE GELLMANS AND MR. STOPNICK: Bull Connor! Pooh!
GRANDMA & GRANDPA GELLMAN: But tonight let's just forget!
GRANDMA GELLMAN: Stuart! Play your clarinet!
Review: Caroline, or Change the Musical Songs Lyrics Caroline or Change lyrics The Chanukah Party
Caroline, or Change the Musical Lyrics
SYNOPSIS 16 Feet Beneath The Sea The Radio Laundry Quintet Noah Down The Stairs The Cigarette Laundry Finish The Dryer I Got Four Kids Caroline, There's Extra Food There Is No God, Noah Rose Stopnick Can Cook Long Distance Dotty and Caroline Moon Change Moon Trio The Bus That Can't Be Noah and Rose Inside / Outside JFK No One Waitin Night Mamma Gonna Pass Me A Law Noah, Go To Sleep Noah Has A Problem Stuart and Noah Quarter In The Bleach Cup Caroline Takes My Money Home Roosevelt Petrucius Coleslaw Santa Comin' Caroline Little Reward 1943 Mr. Gellman's Shirt Ooh Child Rose Recovers I Saw Three Ships The Chanukah Party Dotty and Emmie Mr. Stopnick and Emmie Kitchen Fight A Twenty Dollar Bill and Why I Hate The Bus Moon, Emmie and Stuart Trio The Twenty Dollar Bill Caroline and Noah FIght Aftermath Sunday Morning Lot's Wife Salty Teardrops Why Does Our House Have A Basement? Underwater Epilogue
|