Jews on Broadway
Subtitle: an historical survey of performers, playwrights, composers, lyricists and producers
By: Stewart F. Lane
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jefferson, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780786459179
Subjects: Jewish entertainers; Theater; Musicals; Jews in popular culture; Jews in the performing arts; History
Description: "Jewish performers, composers, lyricists, directors, choreographers and producers have made an indelible mark on Broadway for more than a century. This historical volume captures the story of the Jewish emergence from immigrants in ghetto living conditions staging Yiddish Theater productions on New York's Lower East Side to their significant social and cultural impact on the stages of Broadway" --Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: setting the stage; title: Immigration, Yiddish theater and building Broadway; title: Part of the melting pot: from Vaudeville to Broadway; title: Music of Broadway: classic composers, legendary lyricists; title: Group theater, acting teachers and life during wartime; title: From communism to the Catskills; title: Jewish themes, legends and life in the 1960s and 1970s; title: Young playwrights with a message, inflation, Disney and me; title: New millennium sees Broadway breakthroughs: veterans and newcomers; title: Epilogue.