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Soul Doctor - Journey of a Rockstar Rabbi is a Broadway musical that details the life of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, with music and lyrics by Shlomo Carlebach and David Schechter, and book and direction by Daniel Wise. The Soul Doctor show debuted at Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre in New Orleans, and had subsequent runs at The Colony Theater in Miami, The Parker Playhouse in Ft Lauderdale, and The New York Theatre Workshop in New York City. The Broadway production started previews in July 2013 with its official opening night taking place August 15, 2013 at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre.
This coming-of-age story of courage and inspiring perseverance opens in 1960s Vienna, where Shlomo Carlebach is giving a concert, having returned to the city for the first time in decades, and then transitions back in time to Nazi-occupied Austria when Shlomo, as a child, witnessed the murder of a Jewish man singing in the streets. This experience causes Shlomo to make a pledge to always stand up for freedom of expression through music. To escape persecution, the Carlebach family moves to the Upper West Side in New York City where Shlomo is a Yeshiva student studying the Talmud and memorizing the Torah, following in his father's footsteps to become a Rabbi.
Shlomo's path soon changes when he meets legendary jazz singer Nina Simone in a Greenwich Village night club. She not only teaches him about her gospel and jazz musical roots, but also recounts how her people, like Jews in Europe at the time, were being persecuted in the U.S. Inspired by the music of Simone, Shlomo begins to break Orthodox tradition by obtaining a guitar. He is soon writing songs and playing his music for audiences including women and non-Jews in clubs around New York City. Shlomo embraces pop music and hippiedom over established scholasticism despite ramifications within his family. In the late 1960s he moved to Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco where a "House of Love and Prayer" becomes his home with a following that keeps growing. During this period he played alongside acts such as Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, Pete Seeger, and Jefferson Airplane.
He and Nina Simone end the show back in Vienna, performing a concert in memory of the Jewish singer he saw gunned down in the street by Nazis.
Soul Doctor debuted at Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre in New Orleans on November 8, 2010, following previews in New York City.
Soul Doctor had consecutive runs at The Colony Theater in Miami and The Parker Playhouse in Ft Lauderdale from December 25, 2011 - January 29, 2012.
Soul Doctor had a run at New York Theatre Workshop from July 30 - August 19, 2012.
Soul Doctor opened at Circle in the Square Theatre on August 15, 2013. Producers announced on October 8, 2013, that Soul Doctor will end its Broadway run Oct. 13 at the Circle in the Square.
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Soul Doctor
Soul Doctor - Journey of a Rockstar Rabbi is a Broadway musical that details the life of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, with music and lyrics by Shlomo Carlebach and David Schechter, and book and direction by Daniel Wise. The Soul Doctor show debuted at Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre in New Orleans, and had subsequent runs at The Colony Theater in Miami, The Parker Playhouse in Ft Lauderdale, and The New York Theatre Workshop in New York City. The Broadway production started previews in July 2013 with its official opening night taking place August 15, 2013 at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre.
This coming-of-age story of courage and inspiring perseverance opens in 1960s Vienna, where Shlomo Carlebach is giving a concert, having returned to the city for the first time in decades, and then transitions back in time to Nazi-occupied Austria when Shlomo, as a child, witnessed the murder of a Jewish man singing in the streets. This experience causes Shlomo to make a pledge to always stand up for freedom of expression through music. To escape persecution, the Carlebach family moves to the Upper West Side in New York City where Shlomo is a Yeshiva student studying the Talmud and memorizing the Torah, following in his father's footsteps to become a Rabbi.
Shlomo's path soon changes when he meets legendary jazz singer Nina Simone in a Greenwich Village night club. She not only teaches him about her gospel and jazz musical roots, but also recounts how her people, like Jews in Europe at the time, were being persecuted in the U.S. Inspired by the music of Simone, Shlomo begins to break Orthodox tradition by obtaining a guitar. He is soon writing songs and playing his music for audiences including women and non-Jews in clubs around New York City. Shlomo embraces pop music and hippiedom over established scholasticism despite ramifications within his family. In the late 1960s he moved to Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco where a "House of Love and Prayer" becomes his home with a following that keeps growing. During this period he played alongside acts such as Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, Pete Seeger, and Jefferson Airplane.
He and Nina Simone end the show back in Vienna, performing a concert in memory of the Jewish singer he saw gunned down in the street by Nazis.
Soul Doctor debuted at Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre in New Orleans on November 8, 2010, following previews in New York City.
Soul Doctor had consecutive runs at The Colony Theater in Miami and The Parker Playhouse in Ft Lauderdale from December 25, 2011 - January 29, 2012.
Soul Doctor had a run at New York Theatre Workshop from July 30 - August 19, 2012.
Soul Doctor opened at Circle in the Square Theatre on August 15, 2013. Producers announced on October 8, 2013, that Soul Doctor will end its Broadway run Oct. 13 at the Circle in the Square.