With the Tony Awards just days away, bushels of journalists, critics and performers have been weighing in with their thoughts on the Broadway season and this year’s nominations. Someone with a more outlying view of the whole affair is Rabbi Sol Solomon, a spiritual leader and humorist whose own show, “Shalom Dammit! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon,” played at the Roy Arias Theater last summer.

Each week, the Rabbi records his mini-sermons, called “Rabbinical Reflections,” for his blog and for broadcast on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program (which this writer produces and hosts). As he has in years past, the Rabbi has devoted his most recent Reflection to Broadway and the Tonys – not so much to their commercial or aesthetic value, but as to whether, overall, they’re good for the Jews.

For example, about “Lucky Guy,” the Rabbi says, “Played by Tom Hanks, the lead character is a hard-bitten, hard-drinking, morally suspect loudmouth – but he's Irish, so that's fine.” Regarding Christopher Durang’s new play, which Rabbi Sol misidentifies as “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike and Irving and Leopold and Morris the Cat,” the Rebbe says, “The play doesn’t have any Jews in it, but it feels like good Neil Simon, so we'll give it our blessing.”

Turning to musicals, Rabbi Sol discusses the origins of “Cinderella” authors Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II: “Oscar was brought up Episcopalian – but he had a Jewish grandfather, which explains why so many characters in R&H musicals are wracked with guilt.”

The Rabbi also finds time to laud Special Tony winner Larry Kramer, albeit in an unorthodox way: “He's not only a Jew, and not only a gay Jew, but he's an angry, kvetching, sentimental, in-your-face Jew – that’s like five Jews in one!”

To hear Rabbi Sol’s full Rabbinical Reflection on the 2013 Tonys, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kY7pP-rSoQ. For more of the Rabbi’s writings and reflections, visit www.shalomdammit.com.

- by David Lefkowitz