Research Catalog

Title

Jews on Broadway : an historical survey of performers, playwrights, composers, lyricists and producers / Stewart F. Lane.

Author

Lane, Stewart F.

Publication

Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Co., 2011.

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Holdings

Details

Description

221 p.

Summary

"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.

Subject

• Jews in the performing arts > New York > History > 20th century
• Jewish entertainers > New York > History > 20th century
• Jews in popular culture > United States
• Theater > New York > History > 20th century
• Musicals > New York > History > 20th century
• Musicals > New York > 20th century > History and criticism
• Broadway (New York, N.Y.)

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: setting the stage -- Immigration, Yiddish theater and building Broadway -- Part of the melting pot: from Vaudeville to Broadway -- 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 -- New millennium sees Broadway breakthroughs: veterans and newcomers -- Epilogue.

ISBN

9780786459179 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010051309

OCLC

668182929

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library