Jews on Broadway: An Historical Survey of Performers, Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists and Producers (38 page)

Perestroika
150

67;
Oklahoma!
58;
Rent
151; Rodgers and Perlman, S.J. 68

Hammerstein 61;
So Big
55;
Street Scene

Perry, Antoinette 92

82;
You Can’t Take It with You
68

persecution, Jewish 3, 7, 10, 40

puppetry 166

Peschkowsky, Michael Igor
see
Nichols,

Purim Shpiels 3

Mike

Pyekoon, Margaret
see
Picon, Molly

Peter Pan
24, 89, 104

Pygmalion
105

Phantom of the Opera
157

Philadelphia Theater Company 62

The Queen of Basin Street
172

Phillips, John 181

Queens College 139

Phillips, Michelle 181

Photograph
169

Rabe, David 147

Picon, Molly 19, 34–35, 122, 123, 153

Rabinowitz, Jerome Wilson
see
Robbins,

Pidgeon, Walter 132

Jerome

“Pinko Playwright Weds Sex Goddess”

racism 41, 55, 64, 119

99

Radner, Gilda 153

Pins and Needles
123

Rags
121, 137

Pippin
138, 139, 184

“Rags to Riches” 105

Pirate Queen
159

Raiders of the Lost Ark
161

The Pirates of Penzance
147

Rankin, John 103

Play It Again, Sam
112, 152

Raye, Martha 133

playwrights
see
individual playwrights

The Real Thing
186

Plaza Suite
127, 130

Reiner, Carl 79, 111, 121, 129, 179

Pocahontas
139, 164

Reizenstein, Elmer Leopold
see
Rice, Elmer

Poitier, Sidney 64

Rent
151, 184, 185

politically incorrect vaudeville 32

Republic Theater 23, 25, 27, 161, 162

politics in theater 74, 79, 82

Resurrection
16

Poor Little Ritz Girl
60

The Retributionists
194

Porg y
(Heyward) 63

revivals 177

Porg y and Bess
50, 63

Reynolds, Debbie 171

Porter, Cole 50

“Rhapsody in Blue” 63

Pound, Ezra 48

Rhinoceros
100

Power of Darkness
16

“Rialto Rag” 62

Present Arms
61

Rice, Elmer 82–83

Preston, Robert 133

Rice, Tim 159

The Price
98

Rich, Frank 172

Price, Vincent 79

Richards, Marty 173

Prince, Harold 100–101, 108, 121, 184

Rickles, Don 111, 121

The Prince of Eg ypt
139

Riggs, Lynn 57

The Princess Bride
183

Rivers, Joan 153

Princess Theater 55

Riverside Shakespeare Company 147

The Prisoner of Second Avenue
127, 130

The Robber Bridegroom
170

Processional
72

Robbins, Jerome: career 90–91; as inform-

The Producers
14, 86, 114, 177, 179, 180

ant 100–101, 102; productions 58, 89, 101,

producers
see
individual producers

107–108, 121, 123–124

Promenade Theater 138

Roberta
56

Promises, Promises
127, 133, 143, 152

Roberts, Tony 134

217

Index

Robin, Leo 104

Seven Lively Arts
87

Robinson, Edward G. 17, 95, 98

1776
156, 186

Robinson Crusoe, Jr.
41

Sexual Perversity in Chicago
153

Rodgers, Mary 182

sexual revolution 121

Rodgers, Richard: career 57, 59–62, 137;

Shaiman, Marc 181–182

family 182; productions 52, 68;
see also

Shakespeare in the Park 146, 151, 166

Hammerstein, Oscar, II

“Shall We Dance?” 58

Rogers, Ginger 66, 133

Shalom
see
Milk and Honey

Rogers, Will 40

Shaw, George Bernard 26

Roman, Freddie 114

She Stoops to Conquer
144

Romberg, Sigmund 162

Shear, Claudia 170

Rome, Harold 123

Sheen, Al 42, 43

Ronstadt, Linda 146

Sheen, Martin 78, 146

Roosevelt, Eleanor 80

Sheinkin, Rachel 188

Roosevelt, Franklin D. 79, 80

Shenendoah
23

Rose-Marie
56

Sherman, Al 165

Ross, Jerry 105

Sherman, Richard 165

Roth, Daryl 187–188

Sherman, Robert 165

The Rothschilds
125

Sherwood, Robert E. 65

The Royal Family
55

Shevelove, Burt 101

Royal National Theater, London 150

Shinbone Alley 179

Rudner, Rita 153

Shire, David 188

Rumania and Yiddish Theater 8

Shmendrik
9

Russell, Rosalind 89

Show Boat
50, 55, 57

Russia and Yiddish Theater 8, 11

Shrek
177

Ruth, Babe 38

Shubert, Jacob: career 24, 41–42, 49; the-

Ryskind, Morrie 66

aters 26, 39, 85

Shubert, Lee: career 24, 41–42, 49; theaters

Sabbath 11, 13, 122

26, 39, 85

“Sadie Salome, Go Home” 34, 51

Shubert, Sam: career 24, 41–42, 49; theaters

Sag Harbor
161

26, 39, 85

Sager, Carole Bayer 128

Shubert Organization 24, 147

St. James Theater 58, 186

Shubert Theater 89, 132, 139

Salem witch hunts 96–97

Shue, Larry 157

Salomé
19

Side by Side with Sondheim
168

Saluta!
44

silent films 44

Sandrow, Nahma 8, 9, 10, 12, 18, 22–23

Silent Movie
179

Saturday Night Fever
161

Silverman, Sarah 153

Satz, Ludwig 17

Silvers, Phil 101, 104, 126

Scandals
62–63

Simon, Carly 168

Scanlon, Dick 151, 185

Simon, Danny 126

Schisgal, Murray 130

Simon, Neil 86, 112, 126–129, 130

Schonberg, Bessie 90

Simon, Paul 158

Schönberg, Claude-Michel 159

Sinatra, Frank 79, 167, 168, 177

Schwartz, Jerome Lawrence
see
Lawrence,

Sinbad
41

Jerome

Singer, Isaac Bashevis 125

Schwartz, Stephen Lawrence 137–139, 183

The Singing Rabbi
14

Scopes Monkey Trial 115

The Sisters Rosensweig
154

Scott, George C. 146

Six Degrees of Separation
157

Second Avenue Theater 20

Slattery, Mary 99

“Second Hand Rose” 40

Sleeper
181

The Secret Garden
159, 168, 186

Sleeping Beauty
162

Seinfeld
28, 120

Smith, Kate 52

Select Theaters 49

Smith College 156

Sergeant Bilko
126

“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” 56

Sesame Street 185

Smokey Joe’s Café
157

218

Index

Snow White
162

Sweet Adeline
57

So Big
55

Sweet Bird of Youth
72

Solomon, Steve 193

Sweet Chariot
158

“Some Enchanted Evening” 58

Sweet Charity
127, 167, 189

Some Like It Hot
134

Something for the Boys
86

Table Settings
169

Sondheim, Stephen: personal 67; produc-

Take Me Along
121, 132

tions 100, 108, 109, 168, 170

Take Me Out
187

The Sound of Music
59, 109, 119, 132, 163

Take the Money and Run
139

South Pacific
58, 92

Taking It on the Road
147

Soviet Union and the Cold War 94, 95

The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife
187, 188

Spamalot
130, 190–192

Tales of the South Pacific
58

Speed the Plow
153

Talk of New York
33

Spencer, David 164–165

Tarzan
166

Spencer, Elizabeth 183

Taymor, Julie 166

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
167

Tchin-Tchin
132

Spingarn, Joel 80

teachers of acting 76–78

Spring Awakening
186

television specials 141

Stage Door
66

The Tempest
150

Stage Door Canteen 85

Tesori, Jeanine 150–151, 185

Stanislavski, Constantin 72, 77

Tevye and His Daughters
(Aleichem) 121

A Star Is Born
64

Thalia Theater 20

The Star-Spangled Girl
127

theater: as education 3, 4, 8; as meeting

Starlight Express
158

place and forum 17–18, 49, 82; as preser-

“Steam Heat” 105

vation of culture 7, 30, 120

Stein, Gertrude 169

Theater for a New Audience 147

Stein, Joseph 121, 125

Theater Guild 72

Stella Adler Conservatory 77

Theater Guild Award 97

Stella Adler Studio of Acting 77;
see also

theaters
see
Broadway; individual theaters

Adler, Stella

Theatre Republic 27, 161;
see also
Republic

stereotypes, Jewish: on Broadway 45, 46,

Theater

113, 119; in vaudeville 32, 35–36

“There’s No Business Like Show Business”

Stock Market crash 48, 53, 65

52

Stone, Peter 156, 173

They Should Have Stood in Bed
101

Stop the World — I Want to Get Off
132, 142

They’re Playing Our Song
114, 128, 133, 139

Storm, Howie 112

This Is the Army
52, 86

Strasberg, Lee 28, 60, 72, 76–77, 115

This One Man
115

Strasberg, Paula 115

Thomashefsky, Bessie Baumfeld-Kaufman

Strasberg, Susan 114–115

18–19

Strasberg Method 76–77

Thomashefsky, Boris 8, 12–15, 17, 20, 110–111

Streep, Meryl 146

Thomashefsky, Fanny 19

Street Scene
82, 87

Thomashefsky, Michael 19

A Streetcar Named Desire
75

Thoroughly Modern Millie
151, 177, 185

Streisand, Barbra 123–125, 131, 140

Threepenny Opera
87, 105

Strike Up the Band
63, 66

ticket prices 20, 158, 177

Strouse, Charles 134–137, 142

Tick.Tick.BOOM!
151

Styne, Jule 104, 107, 109, 123–124, 134

Till the Day I Die
81–82

Subways Are for Sleeping
89, 131, 151–152

Tilson Thomas, Michael 18, 22

Sugar
124, 134

Time Remembered
115

“Summertime” 64

Times Square 23, 25, 160

Sunday in the Park with George
168–169,

Tin Pan Alley 28, 50, 62, 164, 165

170, 172

Tip Toes
63

Sunny
57

Titanic
156

The Sunshine Boys
127, 129

To the Ladies
66

“Swanee” 62

“Tomorrow” 137

Sweeney Todd
108, 168

The Tonight Show
181

219

Index

Tony Awards 92, 145;
All My Sons
97;
Ap-

Uhry, Alfred 170–171

plause
136, 142;
Avenue Q
185;
Awake and
Unce Upon a Mattress
102

Sing!
74;
Bells Are Ringing
107; Bloomgar-Uncle Tom’s Cabin
14, 19, 35

den, Kermit 115;
Broadway Bound
129;
Bye

Under Fire
17

Bye Birdie
136;
Cabaret
140, 142;
La Cage
United Service Organization (USO) 86

Aux Folles
172;
Chapter Two
128;
Chicago
University of Miami 132

141;
A Chorus Line
139, 152;
City of Angels
Up in One
182

166, 168;
Crazy for You
158;
The Crucible
Upper East Side, Manhattan 67

98, 115;
Death of a Salesman
115;
The Diary
of Anne Frank
115;
The Drowsy Chaperone

Vagabond Stars, a World of Yiddish Theater

188;
Evita
168;
Falsettos
169–170;
Fiddler
(Sandrow) 8

on the Roof
121, 122;
Fiorello!
121;
A Funny
Vallee, Rudee 63

Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Van Dyke, Dick 136

101;
Guys and Dolls
104, 157;
Hairspray

vaudeville 26, 30–31, 32, 33–38, 87;
see

152, 182; Hammerstein, Oscar, II 61;
The

also Ziegfeld Follies

Heidi Chronicles
154;
Hello, Dolly!
124, 133; Veola, Helen 90

High Button Shoes
90;
The House of Blue

Vera Violette
41

Leaves
157;
How to Succeed in Business

Very Good Eddie
54

Without Really Trying
104;
Inherit the Wind
Victoria Theater 23, 25, 37, 56

115;
Jersey Boys
181;
The Last Night of Bal-Vietnam 121

lyhoo
171;
The Light in the Piazza
62, 183; Vietnam War Trilogy 147