Here Come the Passover Videos: Why Seders are Slow - A Disney Moana Parody

Every year at Passover time we get to see a lot of Pesach-themed parodies of popular songs, movies, and shows. Some are very good and some are so-so. We try to bring you the best of the crop.

Today we encountered an impressive parody of the Disney animated film Moana. It's by a very talented crew too numerous to credit in these few lines, so we're listing them all along with the lyrics in the space just below the video. 

The song is called Why Seders are Slow and it's a direct take-off on the Moana How Far I'll Go which was written and produced by Lin-Manuel Miranda. The Moana song was nominated for Best Original Song at the 89th Academy Awards and Best Original Song at the 74th Golden Globe Awards. We're including the video below after the lyrics and credits for Why Seders are Slow.

Enjoy!

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CREDITS
 
W&C Pictures Presents:
“Why Seders are Slow”
Parody of “How Far I'll Go” from Moana
Original Music by: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Produced by: Elyse Heise
Directed by: Christian D Chapra
Director of Photography: Green Leaf Multimedia
Editor: Green Leaf Multimedia
Audio Production: Ean White, Incendiary Arts LLC
Storyboard Ideas: Stacey Wein
Parody Lyrics: Elyse Heise
Vocalists: Rachel Baril and Ashley Harmon
Filmed on Location at: The home of Greg Manousos and Amy Rosenberg

Starring:
Ashley Harmon
Rachel Baril
Elizabeth Schwartz
Jordan Solomon
Rimon R.
Addie, Ruby and Sadie Wein
Juliana and Jack
Eunice Goldberg
Jane Leikin
Greg Manousos
Elyse Heise
and Max

Tech Crew:
Tyler Coveney
Nichole Brennan
Steven Heise

Props and costumes:
Rabbis Rachel Gurevitz and Suri Krieger
The Wein Family
Elyse Heise
The Solomon Family
Amy Rosenberg and Greg Manousos

Special Thanks to: Hali the Wonder Pup


LYRICS

I've been staring at this ragged Haggadah
For what feels like forever
Just trying to get by
I wish I could understand this Hebrew
Or what they mean by dayenu
Or 'Baruch' or 'Adonai'

Every Kiddish made
Every Karpas ate
I must masquerade
That I can translate
That the words I know
How the melodies go
And I'm so hungry....

See the Jews and they're longing to be free
In Mitzrayim
Their cries of need
Their hands they bleed
The Maror on my plate is the key
It reminds me
400 years
With a strong arm, God ended all these bitter tears

I know what they mean by Afikomen
Gonna find the Afikomen
Dessert is going to be mine
Here is where they hid the Afikomen
See it says Afikomen
On this fancy napkin design

I can read with vowels
I can sing the tune
I can keep the pace
Hope they feed us soon
On this Seder night
Under this full moon
Let's just say Motzi

See the plate as it's passed out to me
It's exciting
Unleavened dough
Baked on the go
And it seems like it's calling out to me
Cause I'm starving
Two more Brochot

Another glass of wine
Yes I'll drink that wine

See the part where God splits the sea
Now I know Mayim
The sea of reeds
We praise those deeds
If next year, we will be, living free
Yerushalem
Why Seders are slow
I'll never know!!