The Megilla of Itzik Manger

• Original Broadway Production (1968)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Return Engagement (1969)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• The Tailor's Megilla
• Theme of the Megilla
• Oom Pa Pa Pa
  • aka The King's Party [no note]
• Vashti's Farewell
  • aka Vashti's Last Mile [no note]
• Song of the Walnut Tree
• Fastrigosso's Lament
• Song of the Rain
• Song of the Golden Peacock
• Fly, Little Bird
• Gevald Aria, The
• The Tailor's Drinking Song
  • aka Come Into the Tavern [no note]
• S'a Mechaye
  • aka The King's Song ? It's a Groove [no note]
• The Tailor's Song
  • aka From Stopchet to Kolomay [no note]
• Revolutionary Song
• A Mother's Tears
• Cause Uncle Mordechai Is So Smart
• Chiribim
• Lechaim

A musical Purim play, adapted from the version by Yiddish poet Itzik Manger. Manger created characters and incidents not in the Biblical story, most prominently Fastrigosse, a tailor's apprentice in love with Esther.

English Commentaries by Joe Darion. Original Israeli version by Shmuel Bunim, Hayim Hefer, Itzik Manger and Dov Seltzer.

Adapted by Shumel Bunim.