Jews on Broadway: An Historical Survey of Performers, Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists and Producers (35 page)

Musical Comedy in America: From
The Black Crook
to
South Pacific
, From
The King

& I
to
Sweeney Todd by Cecil A. Smith and Glenn Litton.

No Applause — Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous
by Trav S.D.

The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America’s Greatest Lyricists
by Phillip Furias.

205

Further Reading

Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Meshugas of the Yiddish Theater in America
by Stefan Kanfer.

Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater
by Nahma Sandrow.

Wit’s End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table
by James R. Gaines.

And for those interested in producing their own show:
Let’s Put On a Show
by Stewart F. Lane.

206

Index

Abbott, George 89, 100, 105

All in the Family
136

Abie’s Irish Rose
45–46, 161

All My Sons
97

Academy Awards:
Cabaret
142;
Cimarron

Allegro
58

55;
Driving Miss Daisy
171; Mel Brooks

Allen, Fred 60

178;
The Producers
179; Rodgers and

Allen, Gracie 43, 45

Hammerstein 61;
Stage Door
66

Allen, Joan 155

The Act
141

Allen, Peter 158, 182

actors and actresses
see
individual names

Allen, Woody 36, 111, 126; productions 129,

Actors Studio 72, 75, 76, 115

131, 152, 181

Adam Baum and the Jew Movie
194

Alvin Theater 86

Adams, Lee 135, 142

“America Was Different. America Is Differ-

Adams, Maude 24

ent” (Klinger) 48

The Addams Family
157, 177, 181, 189

American Academy of Dramatic Arts 142

The Adding Machine
82

American Ballet Theater 90

Adelphi University 151

American Beauty
124

Adler, Celia 80

American Buffalo
153

Adler, Ellen 15, 16

The American Daughter
154

Adler, Jacob P. 8, 10, 15–17, 20

American Idiot
186

Adler, Larry 103

American Jewish Congress 49

Adler, Louis 73

American Laboratory Theater School 77

Adler, Luther 79, 95, 122

American Landscape
82

Adler, Richard 105

American League for a Free Palestine
80

Adler, Sara Heine 16, 19

American Popular Song
(Wilder) 52

Adler, Stella 72, 76–78; and Bergson Group

American Repertory Theater 72, 166

79; and Group Theater 73, 75, 95; and

American Theater Festival, Philadelphia

Yiddish Theater 28

164

Adrift in Macao
62

American Theater Wing 85, 92

African Americans on Broadway 41, 55, 57,

Amerika
19

63–64, 119

Amour
170

After the Fall
98

Andrews, Julie 69, 107

The Age of Assassins
150

Angelou, Maya 64

AIDS crisis 5, 147, 149–150, 151, 165

Angels in America
150

Aladdin
162, 164

Animal Crackers
43, 66

Aleichem, Sholom 121

Anna and the King of Siam
58

Alexander, Jane 155

Anna Christie
123

“Alexander’s Ragtime Band” 47, 51

Annie
137, 158

Algonquin Round Table 65

Annie Get Your Gun
52, 91, 130

Alice
129

Annie Hall
181

All About Eve
136

Another Part of the Forest
83

All American
136, 179

Anti-Defamation League 48, 171

207

Index

anti–Semitism 48, 70, 76, 119, 135; in

Baumfeld-Kaufman, Bessie
see
Thomashef-

vaudeville 32

sky, Bessie

Anyone Can Whistle
108

Bayes, Nora 35–36, 40, 60

Anything Goes
157, 158

Beaches
182

The Apartment
127

Beatty, Warren 78

Applause
136, 142

Beauty and the Beast
162, 164

The Apple Tree
128

Behar, Joy 153

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
164

Belasco, David 27

Arch Street Theater 19

La Belle Paree
41

architecture 161

Bells Are Ringing
89, 104, 107

Arden, Eve 66

Ben-Ami
22

Ardler, Stella
see
Adler, Stella

Benchley, Robert 65

The Aristocats
165

benefit performances 17

Arlen, Harold 64

Bennett, Michael 136, 151–152

Armstrong, Billy Joe 186

Bennett, Tony 105, 167

Armstrong, Louis 132

Benny, Jack 43–44

Army Emergency Relief Fund 52

Bergson Group 78–80

Arnaz, Lucie 128

Berle, Milton 44, 79, 86, 101, 111

Arthur, Bea 122

Berlin, Irving 43, 50–54, 65, 66, 92

As Thousands Cheer
52

Berlinger, Mendel
see
Berle, Milton

Ashman, Harold 164, 165

Bernardi, Herschel 122

assimilation of immigrants 4, 53, 70, 92,

Bernhardt, Sarah 26

147

Bernstein, Leonard 80, 88, 89–90, 95, 108

Astaire, Adele 63, 67

“Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” 61

Astaire, Fred 63, 67

Big as Life
120

Atlanta Trilogy 170

Big Boy
24

Atwell, Lester 140

Big Business
182

August: Osage County
188

The Big Sleep
142

Auntie Mame
133;
see also Mame

The Big Voice: God or Merman?
193

Avenue Q
184–185

Billion Dollar Baby
88, 90

Awake and Sing!
74, 75, 81

Biloxi Blues
86, 128, 129

Away We Go!
57

The Birdcage
130

blackface 33, 37, 41

Babes in Arms
61

blacklisted 95, 102–103, 107, 116, 124

Babes in Toyland
26

Blazing Saddles
179

Bacall, Lauren 136, 142, 171

Blitzstein, Mark 95

Bacharach, Burt 127

Bloomgarden, Kermit 115

Bailey, Pearl 133

Blossom Time
24

Baker, Elliott 130

Bock, Jerry 120–121, 125

“baking plays” 21

The Body Beautiful
121

Bakrow, Beatrice 69

Bolger, Ray 61, 63, 179

Baldwin, Alec 77

Bombay Dreams
187

Baline, Israel
see
Berlin, Irving

Booth Theater 137

Ball, Lucille 66, 167

Borach, Fanny
see
Brice, Fanny

Bananas
139

Born Yesterday
107

Bancroft, Anne 77, 124, 180

Borscht Belt 111;
see also
Catskill Mountains
The Band Wagon
66

Boublil, Alain 159

Bankhead, Tallulah 65

Bowery Garden 12

Barefoot in the Park
126–127, 129, 130

Boy Scouts of America 52

Barnum
168

Brando, Marlon 75, 78, 79, 80

Barnum and Bailey Circus 30

Bratsburg (Morgan), Harry 73

Baron, Sandy 112

Breakfast at Tiffany’s
124

Barrymore, Ethel 63

Brecht, Bertolt 150

Barrymore, Lionel 161

Brice, Fanny 32, 33–34, 40, 124, 153;
see

The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel
147

also Funny Girl

Basie, Count 79

Brickman, Marshall 180, 189

208

Index

Brigadoon
72, 106

Carousel
58, 158

Brighton Beach Memoirs
128

Carr, Allan 172

Brigit Loves Bernie
46

Carradine, Keith 173

Broadcast News
182

Castle, Irene 51

Broadway 23, 85, 91, 160–162, 177

Castle, Vernon 51

Broadway Bound
128, 129

The Cat and the Fiddle
55

Broadway Danny Rose
112

Catch a Star!
120

Broadway Musicals Show by Show
(Green)

The Catch of the Season
54

67

Catch-22
130

Broadway Theater 132

Cats
157, 158, 179

Broadway Theater Ensemble 156

Catskill Mountains 110–114, 179

Brochu, Jim 193

Catskills on Broadway
114

Broder singers 8, 10

Caught Short! A Saga of Wailing Wall Street

Broderick, Matthew 180, 182

(Cantor) 36

Brody, Alan 194

Champion, Gower 133, 134, 136, 140

Brooks, Mel 136, 178–180

Channing, Carol 104, 124, 133

Brown’s Hotel 111

Chaplin, Charlie 44

Bruno, Walter 89

Chapter Two
127–128

Brynner, Yul 58

Charnin, Martin 136

Buck, Pearl 68

Le Chauve-Souris
65

Bucks County, PA 67

Cheers
161, 189

Bucks County Playhouse 68

Chenowith, Kristin 186

burlesque 33–34

The Cherry Orchard
26

Burnett, Carol 102, 124

Chicago
141, 189

Burns, George 43–44, 45

Children’s Defense Fund 143

Burrows, Abe 104–105, 142

The Children’s Hour
83, 153

Burstyn, Ellen 77

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
165

Burton, Richard 107, 115

choreography
see
individual choreographers

Butterflies Are Free
137

A Chorus Line
139, 147, 159, 189

By Jupiter
61

A Christmas Carol
164

“By the Light of the Silvery Moon” 40

Cimarron
55

Bye Bye Birdie
135–136

Cinderella
162

Circumcise Me
193

Cabaret
102, 140, 142

City College of New York 154

Cactus Flower
142

City of Angels
166, 168

Caesar, Irving 62

City Slickers
182

Caesar, Sid 86, 111, 112, 126

Clare Tree Major School of Acting 72

La Cage Aux Folles
108, 152, 158, 171–172

Clayburgh, Jill 77

Cahn, Sammy 58, 104

“Climb Every Mountain” 59

Call Me Madam
90

Closer Than Ever
188

Call Me Mister
123

Clurman, Harold 7, 71–73, 77

Calloway, Cab 64

Cobb, Lee J. 73

Camelot
107

The Cocoanuts
43, 57, 66

Camp Shows 86

Cohan, George M. 23, 33, 68, 142

Campbell, Yisrael 193

The Cohens and the Kellys
46

Can Can
104–105

Cold War 92–93, 116

Candid Camera
181

Coleman, Cy 112, 166, 167–168, 173–174

Candide
89

Coleman, Gary 185

Cantor, Eddie 32, 36, 40, 79

Collins, Phil 166

Capeman
158

Columbia University 56, 59, 66, 83, 135,

Capri, Dick 114

140, 150

Carlisle, Kitty 69

Comden, Betty 63, 88–89, 136, 142, 173–

Carmen Jones
57

174

Carnegie Hall 167

Come Blow Your Horn
126, 142

Carnival
123

comedy in vaudeville 31–32, 34, 35–36,

Caroline, or Change
150, 151, 187, 188

42–43;
see also
specific comedians

209

Index

commedia dell’arte 138

Detroit Opera House 25

Committee for a Jewish Army of Stateless

Diamond, Selma 129

and Palestinian Jews
see
Bergson Group

“Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” 104

Committee for the First Amendment 96

The Diary of Anne Frank
102, 107, 114–115

Communism 94–103, 119; and Cold War

The Dick Cavett Show
181

92–93, 116; sympathizers 81, 83–84, 146

Diggs, Taye 184

Como, Perry 79

Dillar, Phyllis 133

The Company of Angels
194

Dilly, Erin 186

Concord Resort 111

Dinner at Eight
55

A Connecticut Yankee
61

Dirty Blonde
170

Connelly, Marc 66

Dirty Dancing
143

Cook, Captain 38

discrimination 40–41;
see also
anti–Semi-

Copland, Aaron 89, 135

tism; racism

Cornell University 84, 108

Disney, Walt 96;
see also
The Walt Disney

Coughlin, Father James 48

Company

Counselor-at-Law
75, 82, 115

Divided by Three
69

Crawford, Cheryl 72, 75

Divine Madness
182

Crazy for You
158

“Do-Re-Mi” 59

Crimes and Misdemeanors
157

The Doll Girl
54

The Critic
179

A Doll’s House
19, 26

The Crucible
97, 98, 115–116

domestic drama 21

Crystal, Billy 36

Don’t Drink the Water
112, 131

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