I'm looking for a funny song for a female singer that is somehow about Judaism. for example, I have Shiksa Goddess for my male singer, and I'm looking for something similar for a girl.
Falsettos' numbers are hurt by the fact that they need context, and/or are sung from a male perspective. "Everyone Hates His Parents" could work, but isn't explicitly Jewish.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Again, not Broadway, but Jackie Hoffman's "Shavuoth" and "You Are Jewish" are both upbeat and funny. Both songs are pretty blue, though, if that's a concern.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
I wrote a song once, AGES ago, called "Not Actually A Jew," about the unusual situation of being a goy who happens to be cast almost exclusively to play stereotypically Jewish characters, wishing for any other role out of boredom with the same schtick over and over again.
If I could find it, I'd send it to you, but I wrote it in pre-digital days as a lead-sheet on a piece of paper and I've long since lost the paper.
A few years ago on SNL they did a song called "Christmastime for the Jews" about how the Jews go to the movies and eat chinese food on Christmas day! Not broadway, but close!
Not written for a woman, but if you have never heard "When Messiah Comes" you should find a recording of it. Pretty hysterical. I have a recording of it on a mixed CD from a friend that I am guessing is from "An Evening with Sheldon Harnick. I know the song is also on one of the Lost in Boston albums.
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I think Tovah Feldshuh has a song on one of the "Carols for a Cure" albums called "Shalom Santa," about the character's mother being a lapsed Catholic and her father being a cultural Jew. The song was co-written by Douglas J. Cohen of "No Way To Treat a Lady" and "The Opposite of Sex" fame.
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Surprised no-one's mentioned I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE for Harold Rome's score:
A GIFT TODAY is the only Bar Mitzvah song I know of in the Broadway cannon. WHAT ARE THEY DOING TO US NOW is a great minor key protest song. MISS MARMELSTEIN is the solo comedy number that of course propelled Barbra Streisand into the stratosphere.
Really dark unloveable book but some great numbers there.
Perhaps if I knew what you plan to use it for, the context, it might be easier to make a suggestion.
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