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Ari Axelrod A Place for Us: A Celebration of Jewish Broadway

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Album Release Date:
 January 17, 2025


what the critics are saying
 


“There never was, and there never will be an artist who knows their self and commits that self to the creation of musical storytelling in quite the same way as Ari Axelrod."
–BroadwayWorld


“To say that Ari Axelrod is the total package as a cabaret artist would be an understatement.”
–Cabaret Scene


Ari Axelrod
A Place for Us: A Celebration of Jewish Broadway

The Broadway musical as we know it would not exist without the generations of Jewish songwriters who brought not only their talent but their heritage and perspective to their art. In A Place for Us: A Celebration of Jewish Broadway, award-winning musical storyteller Ari Axelrod has gathered a collection of this cherished work through which he finds healing and a sense of home and community, echoing the refuge generations of Jews have sought in the American theater. Axelrod's debut studio album adapts the one-man show he's performed to raves across the country ("Genuinely one of the finest shows I've ever seen" —BroadwayWorld), expanding upon his deep connection to this material and his own Jewish heritage. Weaving together a century of songs from the likes of Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Stephen Sondheim, Mary Rodgers, Jason Robert Brown, Adam Guettel and many others - including Cole Porter, a gentile who said the key to a hit was in writing a "Jewish tune" - Axelrod creates a stunning tapestry of the Jewish American experience, from immigration and assimilation to activism, faith and family, revealing in exquisite detail how Jewish liturgy and culture were transformed into a popular music beloved by all. Featuring a 13 piece orchestra arranged and conducted by Mike Stapleton, with additional arrangements by Larry Yurman, A Place for Us: A Celebration of Jewish Broadway tells an unforgettable story of a community's survival built on courage and the yearning for "peace and quiet and open air ... somewhere."
sound clips
track listing

  1. Migratory V
  2. Hatikvah
  3. Hope
  4. Everybody Says Don’t
  5. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To / Papirosn
  6. So in Love
  7. Shalom / Milk and Honey / I Will Follow You
  8. You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught / Children Will Listen
  9. Some Enchanted Evening
  10. Shy
  11. Corner of the Sky
  12. God Knows Where
  13. Miracle of Miracles
  14. It Ain’t Necessarily So
  15. Lost in the Stars
  16. Cool
  17. Somewhere
  18. Bring Him Home
  19. Adrift on a Star / Silent Spring


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