ABOUT
Rooted in tradition but rewritten to include comedy, music, and sketches, SATURDAY NIGHT SEDER was a grassroots effort put together in just over two weeks at the start of the pandemic by a small team working remotely around the country.
In a time of confinement and uncertainty, a ragtag team of Jews and non-Jewish Passover enthusiasts felt it was more important than ever to channel creative energies and gather community to reinterpret the timeless story of liberation and renewal while raising money for those on the front lines enduring — and fighting — an actual plague.
SATURDAY NIGHT SEDER premiered to an audience of more than 1 million viewers, and has raised more than $3.5 million for the CDC Foundation COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund. It is considered one of the first great examples of pandemic fundraising programming, and is widely hailed as ushering in an era of entertainment using the medium.
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Credits
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Erich Bergen
Alex Edelman
Talia Halperin
Adam Kantor
Benj Pasek
PRODUCERS
Rebecca Halperin
Jen Snow
Rachel Sussman
HEAD WRITER
Alex Edelman
WRITTEN BY
Hannah Friedman
Sas Goldberg
Josh Harmon
Adam Kantor
Michael Mitnick
Mark Sonnenblick
Benj Pasek
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Michael Crawbuck
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Aly Mifa Solot
“OPENING - DAYENU!”
Music & Lyrics: Alex Edelman, Hannah Friedman, Sam Friedman, Mark Sonnenblick, Benj Pasek
Orchestration: Charlie Rosen
Vocal Arrangement: Ben Wexler
Music Preparation: Alex Ratner
Flute, Clarinet, Oboe: Josh Plotner
Bassoon: Jenice Rosen
Background Vox: Ben Wexler, Emily Wexler
“SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW”
Music: Harold Arlen
Lyrics: Yip Harburg
Orchestration: Charlie Rosen
Arrangement: Justin Goldner and Charlie Rosen
“MA NISHTANAH” (THE FOUR QUESTIONS)
Traditional
Arrangement: Ben Wexler
“GO DOWN MOSES”
Traditional
Arrangement: Ben Wexler
“WHEN YOU BELIEVE”
From “The Prince of Egypt”
Music and Lyrics by: Stephen Schwartz
“ELIJAH’S ARRIVAL”
Arrangement: Adam Wachter
“NEXT YEAR”
Music & Lyrics: Mark Sonnenblick, Shaina Taub, Benj Pasek
Additional Lyrics: Hannah Friedman
Arrangement: Ben Wexler
Background Vox: Ben Wexler, Emily Wexler
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL
Rick Elice
Rabbi Bernhard Rosenberg
Barbara Sarshik (“Now That’s What I Call Passover!” medley parody lyrics)
Ben Schwartz
Adam Siegel
ADDITIONAL MUSIC
Hugo Chaim Adler
Evan Solot
TECHNICAL PRODUCTION
Erich Bergen
Paul Wontorek
Michael J. Moritz Jr.
MUSIC SUPERVISOR
Michael J. Moritz Jr.
MUSIC PRODUCTION
Michael J. Moritz, Jr.
EDITORS
Ellen Callaghan
Shirley Chan
Lindsay Gordon
Mark Hall
Andrew Keenan-Bolger
David Mishler
Nick Shakra
Khaled Tabbara
Kelly Teacher
Jake Wilson
FINISHING EDITOR
Diagonal Media
GRAPHICS
Someone & Others
Spry + Mighty
Ryan Casey
PRESS
Molly Barnett, Grapevine PR
CASTING
Craig Burns, CSA, Telsey + Company
STARRING
Pamela Adlon • Jason Alexander • Reza Aslan • Skylar Astin • Shoshana Bean • Rabbi Dana Benson • Mayim Bialik • Rachel Brosnahan • Rabbi Sharon Brous • D’Arcy Carden • Andy Cohen • Darren Criss • Fran Drescher • Billy Eichner • Cynthia Erivo • Liz Feldman • Beanie Feldstein • Harvey Fierstein • Tan France • Eliot Glazer • Ilana Glazer • Josh Groban • Judy Gold • Whoopi Goldberg • Sarah Hurwitz • Adam Kantor • Richard Kind • Julie Klausner • Nick Kroll • Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie • Dan Levy • Judith Light • Mordechai Lightstone • Camryn Manheim • Milo Manheim • Alan Menken • Idina Menzel • Debra Messing • Bette Midler • Isaac Mizrahi • Busy Philipps • Kendell Pinkney • Ben Platt • Billy Porter • Seth Rudetsky • Senator Chuck Schumer • Stephen Schwartz • Ari Shapiro • Leigh Silverman • Sarah Silverman • Michael Solomonov • Shaina Taub • Nina West • Henry Winkler • Finn Wolfhard • Jimmy Wolk • Rabbi David Wolpe • Michael Zegen
“MA NISHTANAH” ENSEMBLE
Nora Aladjem • Ron Aladjem • Tuval Basher • Eric Blackman • Dylan Brown • Ian Caplan • Chelsea Lilly Carlson • Jack Cohen • Justin Cohen • Andrew Daitch • Kelly Fagel • Sol Fiterman • Mitchell Garber • Alix Gilkarov • Lara Gilkarov • Emily Gold • Daniel Goldstone • Jill Goldwasser • Ofri Haver • Jack Hyams • Sam Isle • Emma Jacobson • Elad Kairo • Richard Kraft • Alex Levy • Arielle Loewinger • David Loven • Noah Loven • Keren Luftak • Annie Meenaghan • Z. Miller • Rick Miramontez • Talia Neuschaefer • Daniel Pearlman • Olivia Potier • Mati Rosenblatt • Emma Rosman • Alex Schiff• Alice Rose Shopsis-Kent • Ruby Siegel • Noah Soffer • Claudia Sachs • Anya Tolos • Jonah Wachs • Abby Wallach • Olivia Ziegler • Oli Zuzenberg
THANK YOU
Jeff Astrof • Megan Batoon • BBYO • Dr. Leonard Berkowitz, The Brooklyn Hospital Center • Tara Beppel • Marisa Brickman • The Nurses and Doctors at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA • Brian Bordainick • Marissa Borzykowski • David Burstein • The Buchanans • John Buzzetti • Alex “Sabie” Cohen • Cory Crayn • Jayme David • Ronnie del Carmen • Cheryl Edelman • Dr. Elazer Edelman • Hannah Einbinder • Jess Engel • Timothy Esterly • Morgan Evans • Tess Ferrell • Erica First • The Friedman Family • David Frommer • Karlee Fomalont • Kathryn Gallagher • The Ginghina Family • Teddy Goff • Elon Gold • Andy Gordon • Michael Greif • Gary Gulman • Francine Hermelin • Kar Kay Ho • Brenda Hsueh • Jack Hyams • Chloe Ifshin • Isaac Josephthal • Ian Kandel • David Katznelson • Nikki Kaufman • Rocco Kaufman • Claire King • The Kovac Family • Alix Kozin • Corey Laffel • Thao LeBlanc • Eli Leonard • Daniel Leow • Dr. Douglas A. Levine: NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center • Joe Machota • Iris Mansour • Dr. Rachel Meislin • Dr. Robert Meislin • Natalie Morales • Doug Nevin • The Pasek Family • Marc Platt • Adam Polt • Jason Ralph • Dave Rath • Reboot • Hillary Robbie • Amy Rosenblum • Steffi Santana Manila • Christina Saucedo • Patrick Scott • Adam Siegel • Dr. Jessica Singer • Brad Silnutzer • Cricket Silverstein • Dulce Sloan • The Snow Family • Kevin Sobieski • Rebecca Soffer • The Solot Family • The Sonnenblick Family • Emil & Sigmund Stern • Mia Swier • Patrick Tirschel • Daena Title • Eric Wolfhard • Olivia Ziegler
DEDICATED TO
Adam Schlesinger & and all those who fight COVID-19.
DIGITAL EXPANSION TEAM
Executive Producers: Adam Kantor and Jen Snow
Associate Producer: Michael Crawbuck
Production Coordinator: Sammi Tapper
Production Assistant: Isabel Schwartzberg
Graphic + Web Designer: Kar Kay Ho
