BEST ON AREA STAGES: Jill Sobule on composing music for 'Yentl'
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And there’s a fresh twist.
This “Yentl” will feature new music compositions by Jill Sobule.
The singer-songwriter with the ardent following penned and performed the cleverly funny 1995 pop single “I Kissed a Girl” as well as the snarky hit “Supermodel” from the soundtrack to “Clueless,” which came out the same year.
Sobule recalled, as a young woman, relating to Singer’s short story, “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy.”
“I was such a tomboy growing up I would’ve wanted to go and do what the boys are doing and not stay at home and make the soup,” she said during a recent interview. “For me, I saw this as almost a kind of transgender, a coming-of-age story about a 19-year-old who might be a little confused about her sexuality.”
Sobule has spent about the past seven months composing a dozen or so songs and other incidental music for “Yentl” to be performed by a klezmer/folk-rock band.
Source: Bradenton Herald