It was huge hit. The participants in the skit had a blast rehearsing and performing it. The crowd loved it and chimed in on the chorus sections. It was an excellent addition to out Purim program!

I thought I sent you an email after Purim; If I didn't, I am sorry. We used your "Beach Boys Purim" this year and, let me say, it was a great success. The story line was great, your lyrics were terrific and the Beach Boys are, certainly, the Beach Boys. Those present were singing along and clapping; they loved it! I look forward to, actually in Florida and having the opportunity to than you, personally, for the fine job you did. Many Thanks,

We loved "The Beatles" shpiel. Easy to learn, made our choir look great, and everyone had a great time singing along. We'll be back next year...

Our shpiel was received with great enthusiasm and everyone seemed to enjoy it this past Sunday. Our "live" Purim Band has been playing for our shpiels for many years and the musicians enjoyed a trip into the past with music that many of us grew up with.
Thank you and Rabbi Agler for helping to make this years shpiel a rousing success!

We celebrated Purim with the Motown Operetta, and the whole house was ROCKING! It was performed as a sing-a-long & dance-a-long, and was so well-written and easy to sing. Who knew that Motown songs were made for Purim spiels?

We had a blast rehearsing and performing Middle East Side Story. The two CDs, one with and one without the words, were most helpful in learning the music. We performed using the karaoke version. We are a congregation of about 80 families, and age of performers ranged from 12 to 66, with some people taking several parts. All of us are amateurs. Our student cantor helped us organize and was able to participate in the first and last rehearsals. We had only three in between, so we used our scripts for the dialogue. That didn't seem to interfere with the enjoyment of the audience. Everyone laughed and clapped throughout, so I take that as an indication that it was well worth the effort. I played Haman and had lots of fun singing his part. I would have liked one more song for him!

This was the first year we put on a Purim Shpiel other than our own. We enjoyed doing Schmaltz, A Greased Purim. Our cast of teenagers and adults had at least as much fun practicing and performing the show as did those who attended the final show. To say it was a hit would be an understatement. Because of the cd's provided, we were able to master the songs. Comments following the show included, "the best shpiel ever" and "I especially loved the songs!" Thanks for helping us create a wonderful Purim experience for our congregation.

Great Purim shpiels that are funny, great lyrics and easy to put on with your temple. The karaoke CD and the CD with the “parody” lyrics are invaluable tools that you can use to teach your congregational volunteers the tunes easily..

We recently put on your script and lyrics for Middle East Side Story. I was in it, it was the first time I appeared in a play since I was a kid - I had a lot of fun. I thought the script was great - our congregation agreed-- they laughed a lot. Although there was a lot of booing and hissing, it was at Haman and not the cast.

The Shpiel was a resounding success. Thank you so much for making the script and music available to us. I've attached the program created for the show, as I know you would like to see it.
It was great fun to have beach balls tossed around the sanctuary during the show (the bimah was our "stage"), and the chorus had a blast as well (I just had to have back-up singers, so I added some males to the Vashti Girls and set them loose). The Girls added pom-poms and their own cheers to "Be True to the Jews," and the crowd went wild. Everyone was so into the show - even Haman the Surfer Dude, with his gnarly girl friend Zeresh. It was so great.t.

In our spiel we used the music from Cantor Shore's; Beatles, Megillah Around the Clock and Mordech Eye 007! Our residents, (85-102), were in complete costume, wigs and make-up as they held mics to lip sync along with Cantor Shore's beautiful voice. What an amazing, joyful evening shared with family and friends. Thank You

Just wanted to let you all know of the great success I had yesterday with one of Stephanie Shore's Purim spiels. I adapted and slightly shortened her "Wizard of Pers-Oz" for use by a cast of 20 children ages 6-17. I couldn't have been more pleased with how things turned out and the audience was ecstatic, too.
We used Stephanie's instrumental performance tracks and the kids did all the singing.
Most likely I'll use one of Stephanie's other spiels next year and recommend that you keep her spiels in mind for next year, too.

I join in with my Purim Praises. Our chavurah performed Stephanie's "Oy-klahoma: We were all as "high as an elephant's eye" at the end. Clever lyrics...funny dialogue. Thanks Stephanie.

I (join in with Purim praises). We used Stephanie's "Motown Purim" last year and are using "Oyklahoma" this year. Everyone is enjoying singing it. We got costumes from a local costume shop, so we look pretty good, too.

Dear Stephanie,
Thanks so much for everything. "Megillah Around the Clock" was a huge success! Our Purim festival was the most successful holiday (except for the High Holy Days and Pesach) that we've ever had at our small shul. Nearly every family in our shul attended. The main reason everyone came was they wanted to see how in the world we were going to pull off the musical shpiel. Well, with the help of your well written
script and easy to follow lyrics we did it! We only had one rehearsal but still managed to pull it off. Your musical shpiel made our holiday a success. Todah Raba!

We did the Beatles spiel. The audience and the cast really enjoyed every minute of it.

Jumping into the fray, we did the Beatles last night; I haven't laughed this hard for a very long time. There is something about a "groovy" powerpoint presentation of a song for the congregation AND the teens in the audience waving their cel phones as if they were candles when the sung "Imagine" was sung.
I already have people clamoring for more for next year!!!
Thanks Stephanie.

We did Wizard of PersOz last night, it was great.

This year's MOTOWN MEGILLAH was a great hit at Congregation Beth Am. We had a fuller-than-full house and all the members of the audience really loved it. I'd say they were dancing in the aisles -- but there was almost no room for people to do so. The cast did, though -- both to PURIM TIME HAMANTASH and to a parody of my own to DANCING IN THE STREET - when Haman's leading Mordecai around Shushan on the king's horse. It's a wonderful spiel -- and we had lots of fun doing it.

Just wanted to tell you that we never managed to run the purim shpiel
'night at the opera' last year through a number of circumstances, so we
ran it this year. It was a huge success, played to a sold out audience,
and we cleared costs (including a lunch) at $8.00 a head. I suspect we
will be in touch for another play in the near future. Regards,

We had a great Purim! (Beatles) Its the first time we did a shpiel (we did it for
faculty). People loved it and it will be the springboard to doing an all
school shpiel next year! Many thanks!!

As in the past two years, we thoroughly enjoyed doing the shpiel and our congregants had a great time watching and participating!

Your shpiel was great fun and the CD you sent along with it was a God
send. It made the whole thing possible. Maybe next time you'll do
another CD with just the instrumentals. Because we usually do our
shpiel on the closest Sunday we don't have any musicians because they
also play in church. So we sang and danced with your CD with the vocals
along with our own. It was a little confusing at times. But well worth
it. Thanks again for putting together a script and package that was so
professionally done!!!

The Purimshpiel went very well. All enjoyed it. I dressed as Sgt.
Pepper (the John Lennon variety), and all had a good time. Thank you
for your help.

This was our second year using one of your shpiels - they are fantastic!
Last year we did, "Schmaltz" and this year we did "What's Happening in
Shushan: A Guys and Dolls Purim" which we renamed, "Maidels and
Menschen." I love the fact that you send out the script on disk, so we
can edit it for the number of cast members we need. It also makes it
easy to add in jokes for our shul. The CDs help the cast members learn
the songs, and make my life easier! Thank you so much for another great year!

Very enjoyable. Easy rehearsals. Staff had a great time performing and families and kids really loved the music of the Beatles.

What can I say? The entire Beach boys Purim experience was nothing but FUN FUN FUN! We had dormant thespians from the community coming out of the woodwork to try out. Achashverosh, Mordechai, Esther......all were wonderful. We haven't had any organized theatrical productions performed through our centre in ten years or more. To open with a shpiel featuring Beach Boys music proved to be just what our community was looking for. We saw 200 people come through our doors and, yes, we had to turn people away. Kudos to you and your writing team for a magnificent effort. I'm sure
your creativity has brought pleasure to many communities. We hope to
celebrate next year with another shpiel. Our biggest challenge is
deciding which one! Again, thank you for the wonderful opportunity. We hope to be in touch shortly to order next years production. Sincerely,

Megillah on the Roof! Where shall I begin? The script, music and lyrics
were wonderful. Our Rebbetzin said, "In her greatest imagination she
never expected a production of such caliber." On a personal note I would like to thank you for offering such a vast array of professionally scripted material to the Jewish Community. It was undoubtedly Divine Providence directing me to your website. And to have found you literally, right around the corner, was a blessing. I do hope we have the opportunity to meet someday. With sincere gratitude,

Thanks to purimshpiels.com, we were able to provide the perfect
centerpiece for this year's Purim Celebration! Our congregation had
never held a full "Purim Shpiel," and the event was a great success.
Just one week after Purim, we are already making plans for an expanded
Shpiel next year!

On behalf of the Ritual Committee here at Temple Emanuel, we want to
Thank you for making our Purim celebration so wonderful. Using your "Lion King" shpiel was a wonderful way to get so many of our congregants and their families involved. We played to a "packed house", including our entire Sunday School, and the Show got "rave reviews". We have every intention of selecting another shpiel to do next Purim. Thanks for everything.

Our purim shpiel was fabulous, the kids the adults, everyone had a great time. We got compliments that it was the best Purim Shpiel that they had seen.

We had a cast of about 10 and all of us thoroughly enjoyed performing the spiel entitled "Shmaltz - A Greasy Purim." Your CD was terrific with wonderful voices and very clever lyrics! It allowed us to put on the shpiel with only 2 rehearsals (neither of which had all "actors" in attendance!). Despite our lack of practice, the play came off as a smashing success! Everyone who came participated in some way (we handed out the lyrics to the first and last songs so the "audience" could join in) and it was an incredibly freilach festival celebration. All agreed that it was a wonderful way to celebrate Purim.

I am happy to report to you that your Spongebob Shpiel was a great hit for this season! We had about 20 kids involved and choreographed them to dance as well as sing the numbers. It was a great success. I will surely call upon your skills for next season as well. This was a great shpiel for very young kids. Thanks, again, for the gift of your creativity and talent. Again, brava to you for your creative achievements.

I must say that it was a fantastic evening. With excellent publicity we had more than 3x the normal number of attendees this year. Your shpiel provided an excellent show filled with cast members of all ages. The songs were fun and lively, and allowed us to explore our freedoms in choreography. I received dozens of compliments on the script and the acting. The 100 dollars was money well spent. It is not entirely my decision, however, I hope that we use your company again. I can not tell you how wonderful the evening went. It was one of the most successful evenings in our community in years. Your shpiel has helped bring some new light to our community. The theme was amazing with excellent lyrics and good energy! Thank you so much for your help and for providing our community with such a wonderful gift! Shalom,

Our Purim shpiel went very well. It was performed by our 7th/8th grade youth group--all boys. While we didn't have as many rehearsals as I would have liked and not all of our performers knew who the Beatles were, they were very cute and very well received (the parents certainly appreciated the Beatles parody-aspect of it!). I appreciated having your cleverly rhyming script to work from. I realized only after Purim had come and gone (and the reviews were two thumbs way up!) that we have done some creative Purim shpiels before, but not musical parodies (believe it or not). So, working with your material was a great way for us to get initiated into what the rest of the world has been doing for years. I'm sure we'll be surfing your website next year for our next attempt!

It went very nicely and was very well received. As the director of the shpiel, I can say it was very nice to have everything together and easy to follow.

We hardly had a lot of time to do any preparation - well, actually, none at all! In spite of that, however, it went down really well. I thought it was splendidly written - both the prose and the songs. Very clever adn ingenious...... I did a songsheet so that all the congregation and we - the congregation - sang the songs. Everybody said how much they enjoyed and like it.

We had great success with the "Shushan Shrek" - The CD 'saved' our pitiful voiceovers and it was well received from audience (our wonderfully adaptive narrators sounding like "gingerbread man" and the "Queen of Hearts" had us all in stitches). Many Thanks and Be Well!

The kids did the Marx brother's play as readers' theatre . We had a great time with it though and the parents and visitors enjoyed the play followed by a potluck dinner. Thanks. L'Shalom.

The shpiel was great and we had alot of fun. We especially enjoyed the lyrics and the adaptaion to the music. I would recommend this to any of my fellow cantors. Thanks again.

Thank you so much for helping make this year's Purim Shpiel such a huge success! Our congregation, Temple Rodeph Torah in Western Monmouth County, NJ, was entertained with the production of "Schmaltz...A Greased Purim". Everyone enjoyed the Shpiel! The CD's that you provided were so helpful to our cast members, which consisted of both adults and children. The music was great and we had everyone clapping along to the popular tunes. Thank you again for providing us with such a fun script!

Our Purim Shpiel went well. We did the Lion King. Congregation Beth Israel-Judea in San Francisco. The play was well received, got lots of laughs.

First, my congregation did your Motown Megillah last week. It is brilliant and so much fun. My kipah is off to you for the talent that you obviously have. If the other congregations that have used it got as much joy as our community did, you are responsible for whole lot of simcha in the Jewish world.

The Motown tunes really encouraged even congregants who'd never considered singing on stage to become part of the performance.... The audience really got into the performance, the response was wildly enthusiastic. "We presented your "Motown Purim shpiel" yesterday evening and it was a tremendous success. All the cast members enjoyed doing it, and the congregation really got into the spirit of the evening. There were nothing but rave reviews at the oneg after the performance.

Thank you so much for sharing your Purim Shpiel with our congregation. It was just the right length and allowed our small congregation to have a shpiel that was easy to perform and provided a lot of laughs. The music required little practice for our non-professional singers and the total effect was great.

My husband and I, Scott Fergang and the cast had a fabulous time rehearsing and performing the shpiel. We were pleasantly surprised that the children were quiet, being attentive to the music, comedy and words of the shpiel. Many commented how much the enjoyed the performance of "Megillah on the Roof". It was definitely a success. We look forward to performing more of your shpiels in the future.

Thank you so much for your great talent. The Finding Nemo shpiel went great. Kudos to you and we look forward to next years hit songs.

Shushan Shrek was the best Purim ever. They LOVED the music!!!!! Cannot thank you enough." For the last several years, we have purchased Cantor Shore's Purim Spiels. Our congregants look forward each year to the "top 40's" tunes with the Purim lyrics. These spiels are incredibly clever and are the primary reason for our success on this chag.

Conregation Etz Hayim thoroughly enjoyed the song purchased from Purimshpiels.com.

Our Purim celebration was so much fun. Your "Rock and Roll Megillah" went over wonderfully well.

This year we used a wonderful Shpiel that was silly, funny, great 50s and old rock 'n' roll. The kids loved the dialogue and we used the karaoke music so we could sing along. It was a whole "happening". My rabbi dressed as Elvis and it worked really well." "It was our first Purim Shpiel and a huge success using your Megillah...Around the Clock. The songs were easy to learn, two rehearsals and we felt we "owned it!" Everyone sang along, and the players loved it as well as the congregation. I am ready to learn another one! Send it on!