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	• Jewish Thighs on Broadway: Misadventures of a Little Trouper Penny Orloff 1st Books Library, 2003 - 280 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Funny, insightful, deeply moving

This book is successful on several levels - I read it twice in succession. The first reading dazzles with verbal gymnastics and wit, outrageous situations, fascinating characters. The writing is tight and muscular, like the body of the dancer-heroine, and reads like lightning. But there is a deeper, richer, denser story that beckons underneath all the flash and glamor of a meticulously-detailed Showbiz world - and I read the book very deliberately the second time. Beneath the laugh-out-loud surface, Penny Orloff gives us a dark landscape of the Outsider, the Jew trying to pass for "white" in the world outside the safety of the ghetto. She has fashioned a monstrous alter-ego for her Little Trouper, a Jungian Shadow persona, that rises in spite of her efforts at assimilation - reminiscent of the chilling final lines of the anti-Semitic song in Cabaret, sung by the Master of Ceremonies as he dances with a gorilla: If You Could See Her Like I Do... she wouldn't look Jewish at all. Read carefully, this book takes us into the discomfort zone of self-hatred and the tragedy of genocide from the inside.

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Terrific, entertaining book

I couldn't put this book down. From the very first line, I was hooked. I have been a fan of Penny Orloff for years, having seen her in performances at New York City Opera, on Broadway, and in various cabaret performances over a span of two decades. I bought the book after seeing her in her solo show based on this novel. The show dazzled me, but the book is even more spectacular - who could guess a singing actress would be so mesmerizing a literary dreamweaver? The story is a sort of Alice in Wonderland saga, with a large dollop of Candide, whizzed up in a blender with all the Busby Berkeley movies of the 30's. The heroine is a sort of Everyman - from a woman's perspective. This is, for all it's humor, the story of a Hero's Journey... There is a Jungian Shadow Self, down in the protagonist's "basement" - despised, denied, hidden for learned and constantly reinforced shame - which finally finds liberation and flight in a breathtaking conclusion. But the epilogue reminds us all that at the end of everything, we are what we LOVE.

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Lots of fun!

What a fun read! Keeps you laughing
And the cover art is perfect - who's the artist,the author?

Great Book!

Fun book! I highly recommend it. Characters are bigger than life, and delightfully screwball. Everyone's Jewish family nightmare! Lots of laughs.

You Don't Have to Be Jewish

Penny Orloff has penned a tour de force for anyone who has dreamed of a career on stage. This is one hiliarious romp through New York theater, Florida dinner theater, the LA scene and the many loves and triumphs of a very talented singer, actress and bed partner. Witty, intelligent, fun, imaginative and a page turner. What will our heroine get into next? Who's bed, who's stage, who's theater? Is she a spy? A comedienne? A singer? An actress? Or is she just all of these things rolled into one. You don't have to be Jewish to enjoy this book, but it might help to have a copy of the "Joys of Yiddish" handy.

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Based on her hilarious solo show, Penny Orloff?s novel JEWISH THIGHS ON BROADWAY: Misadventures of a Little Trouper,is populated by an oddball immigrant family, on-again-off-again lovers, diets from Hell, and a Rogue's Gallery from the Showbiz underworld; and every scene has readers laughing out loud.

Abigail Paine, born Miriam Rosen, has been in love with Show Business since childhood, perpetually fantasizing herself as the Little Trouper Who Finds Stardom and True Love by the end of the movie. After a hundred shows and a hundred one-night stands, love and fame still elude her, and she'd rather suck a tailpipe than face another audition.

Complicating her search for the Busby Berkeley ending is her primitive alter-ego ?The Beast. This creature can track, kill, dismember and devour an entire cheesecake; can kick the shit out of smaller muggers on the sidewalks of New York; and can't say no to recreational sex with a famous director on the Third Ring of the New York State Theater while a public tour is in progress.

When Abigail finds love at long last, she is faced with an agonizing choice: Showbiz or The Guy. In her words: "Breaking into Show Business is like breaking into Fort Knox; breaking out, we?re talking Alcatraz."

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