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Jews on Broadway : an historical survey of performers, playwrights, composers, lyricists and producers / Stewart F. Lane.
- Title
- Jews on Broadway : an historical survey of performers, playwrights, composers, lyricists and producers / Stewart F. Lane.
- Author
- Lane, Stewart F.
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PN1590.J48 L35 2017 | Off-site |
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- Description
- vii, 242 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- Theater, Yiddish > New York
- Jewish composers > New York
- Jewish actors > New York
- Jewish theatrical producers and directors > New York
- 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 > 20th century > History and criticism
- Broadway (New York, N.Y.)
- 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 -- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781476667058
- 1476667055
- LCCN
- ^^2017004762
- OCLC
- 971130635
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library