Jews on Broadway : an historical survey of performers, playwrights, composers, lyricists and producers / Stewart F. Lane.
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TextPublication details: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers, (c)2017.Edition: Second editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- 9781476628776
- Jews in the performing arts -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Jewish entertainers -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Jews in popular culture -- United States
- Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Musicals -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- PN1590 .J497 2017
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Setting the stage -- Immigration, Yiddish theater and building broadway -- Part of the melting pot: from Vaudeville to Broadway -- The music of Broadway: classic composers, legendary lyricists -- Group theater, acting teachers and life during wartime -- From Communism to the Catskills -- Jewish themes, legends and life in the 1960s and 1970s -- Young playwrights with a message, inflation, Disney and me -- The new millennium sees Broadway breakthroughs: veterans and newcomers.
"Six-time Tony Award-winning producer Stewart F. Lane chronicles the emergence of Jewish American theater, from immigrants producing Yiddish plays in the ghettos of New York's Lower East Side to legendary performers staging massive shows on Broadway. This historical survey includes new information and photographs, along with insights and anecdotes from a life in the theater"--
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