{"id":40802228657,"date":"2020-02-28T12:17:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T17:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/?p=40802228657"},"modified":"2020-03-05T12:23:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T17:23:36","slug":"the-wisdom-of-solomon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/the-wisdom-of-solomon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wisdom of Solomon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Center for the Arts at Monmouth University<\/strong> has announced that tickets are on sale for a March 28 event featuring playwright, comedy writer and comic storyteller Steve Solomon<\/strong>, in a performance of his award-winning solo show, \u201cMy Mother\u2019s Italian, My Father\u2019s Jewish & I\u2019m in Therapy<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scheduled for 8 p.m., the one-night stand at the Pollak Theatre<\/strong> finds the Brooklyn-born Solomon returning to his roots, as he makes his inaugural appearance on the Monmouth campus with the original performance piece that\u2019s earned him critical acclaim, Broadway stardom, and the kind of career-cornerstone franchise that finds him \u201cStill in Therapy\u201d some 13 years after its debut.<\/p>\n

A co-presentation of the Jewish Cultural Studies program at Monmouth, the Saturday night event in the 2020 Performing Arts Series spotlights the multi-faceted skills of the Sheepshead Bay native, whose path to becoming a professional humorist twisted through some highly unlikely but successful stints as a physics teacher and public school superintendent on Long Island, and a cable TV executive in the Caribbean. Inspired, as might be expected, by Solomon\u2019s own extended family and multi-ethnic neighbors, \u201cMy Mother\u2019s Italian\u2026\u201d uses the star\u2019s gifts for dialects, vocal characterizations, and musical interludes, to conjure up dozens of eccentric relatives and other memorable characters from the old stomping grounds.<\/p>\n

The results, while rooted in Solomon\u2019s own delightfully mixed-up family tree, transcend the strictly personal; staking out a universal appeal that will resonate with anyone whose loving family relationships come equipped with the sort of comical conflicts that make for a hilarious story. Serving as a form of \u201cTherapy\u201d in itself for audiences from coast to coast, the show elevated its creator from comedy club amateur nights to engagement as one of the longest-running one-man shows in Broadway history. For proof of its enduring appeal, look no further than its many spinoffs and sequels, with titles like \u201cMy Mother\u2019s Italian, My Father\u2019s Jewish & I\u2019m In Still Therapy,\u201d \u201cMy Mother\u2019s Italian, My Father\u2019s Jewish & I\u2019m Home for the Holidays,\u201d and \u201cCannoli, Latkes, and Guilt\u2026The Therapy Continues.\u201d<\/p>\n

With more than 4,000 performances under his belt, Steve Solomon has brought his first and most famous solo show to audiences in three countries, with nearly one million people laughing along with his stories of crazy parents, pets, neighbors, merchants, old friends, and ex-spouses \u2014 conveyed in a way that finds this Doctor of Education transforming a \u201ccrowded\u201d solo stage into his most effective comedy classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Center for the Arts at Monmouth University has announced that tickets are on sale for a March 28 event featuring playwright, comedy writer and comic storyteller Steve Solomon, in a performance of his award-winning solo show, \u201cMy Mother\u2019s Italian, My Father\u2019s Jewish & I\u2019m in Therapy.\u201d Scheduled for 8 p.m., the one-night stand at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":40802228661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40802228657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-center-for-the-arts"],"subheadline":"A Brooklyn-to-Broadway humorist conjures a whole hilarious family, in a one-man show at Monmouth U","youtube":"","thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2020\/03\/Untitled-design.png","gallery":null,"featured_img":"\"\"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802228657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802228657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802228657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802228663,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802228657\/revisions\/40802228663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802228661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802228657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802228657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802228657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}