TY - BOOK AU - Lane,Stewart F. TI - Jews on Broadway: an historical survey of performers, playwrights, composers, lyricists and producers SN - 9781476628776 AV - PN1590 .J497 2017 PY - 2017/// CY - Jefferson, North Carolina PB - McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers KW - Jews in the performing arts KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Jewish entertainers KW - Jews in popular culture KW - United States KW - Theater KW - Musicals KW - History and criticism KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - "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"-- UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1512249&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -