Saturday, April 5, 2008

Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad

The following is the review of a new musical review in New York City about Jewish girls....check it out......


GIRLS BAWDY AND NICE
By FRANK SCHECK

April 4, 2008 -- I'VE spent a good part of my adult life searching for "Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad," so it wasn't hard to entice me to the Zipper for this bawdy musical revue, playing Saturday nights.
Featuring an alternating lineup of female performers delivering a mixture of comedy, music and fairly tame burlesque routines, the show is good kosher fun.
The evening is hosted by "The Goddess Perlman," whose increasingly daring outfits ("I'm bringing camel toe back") are topped only by her risqué commentary.
"I put the whore in hora," she says, before explaining that "You get dinner on JDate, but you get laid on Craigslist."
She also delivered several amusing musical numbers, including an ode to gefilte fish, which she calls " 'Fear Factor' for Jews."
At the show I caught, the acts included a trio of comediennes, including Mindy Raf, whose routine included a hilarious song delivering the female perspective during a bout of bad sex; Rena Zager, explaining that "Jews are like an emotional Weather Channel and Jessica Golden, complaining about constantly receiving pictures of her friends' babies ("I'm not sending them pictures of DUI's I've been getting").
All were very funny, even if they were thrown off their comedic rhythms by the noisy interjections of some drunken women in the front row.
Rousing musical accompaniment is delivered by a four-piece klezmer rock band cheekily dubbed the Four Skins, while the scantily clad Sister Schmaltz delivers a series of provocative dance numbers, including a Hasidic strip routine.
Admittedly not for everyone, "Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad" has the outrageous feel of a bat mitzvah gone terribly, terribly wrong.

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