Metropolitan Klezmer Muzikalisher Tango Yiddish Celluloid Closet

Metropolitan Klezmer s Yiddish Celluloid Closet version of Muzikalisher Tango. Live band footage intercuts with pivotal revelatory moments in the nightclub scene of Yiddish screwball comedy American Matchmaker Americaner Schadchen, 1940. This bittersweet lyric from the film is revealed to have a comingout subtext, and while onscreen text elucidates some of the film s wordplay and plot twists, the band plays fabulous horn section and accordion solos in the octet s arrangement of the same song. Leo Fuchs plays dapper closet case Nat Gold in the original soundtrack version, meeting his matchmaking client (Judith Abarbanel) at a swank New York nightclub. Director Edgar Ulmer and his cast enjoy plenty of onscreen injokes, even feygele triple entendres. The musical tango can be enjoyed on many an homage to Vito Russo s original Celluloid Note Fuchs was known as the Yiddish Fred a different spin on the H br, br,