Jews on Broadway: An Historical Survey of Performers, Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists and Producers (39 page)
Authors: Stewart F. Lane
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The Lion King
166;
Look Back in Anger
Village Vanguard 88
131; Mel Brooks 178; Miller, Arthur 99;
The Villain
97
Les Misérables
159;
The Music Man
115;
My
Vonnegut, Kurt 164
Fair Lady
69;
The Odd Couple
127;
Parade
171;
Passion
168;
The Producers
133, 180;
Waiting for Godot
87
Rags
137;
Rent
151;
Rhinoceros
100; Rodgers,
Waiting for Lefty
75, 81
Richard 61;
Spamalot
130;
Spring Awaken-
Waldman, Robert 170
ing
186;
Sweet Charity
189;
Thoroughly
The Walt Disney Company 160–162
Mod ern Millie
186;
Titanic
156;
Torch Song
War Refugee Board 80
Trilog y
152;
Vietnam War Trilog y
147;
Wic -
Washington University 131
ked
184;
The Will Rogers Follies
168, 173; Wasserstein, Wendy 153–155
Woman of the Year
142;
Wonderful Town
89
Watch on the Rhine
83, 95–96
Topol, Chaim 122
Watch Your Step
47, 51
Torch Song Trilog y
152
Waterson, Sam 146
Tormé, Mel 166
Waxman, Anita 186
Town Hall 167
We Americans
28
tradition, Jewish 120, 121–122
We Will Never Die
80
The Transatlantic Burlesquers
33
Webber, Andrew Lloyd 159, 166
The Trapp Family Singers
109
Weber and Fields 37, 60
Triumph of Love
185
The Wedding Planner
182
Truman, Harry S. 53
Weidman, Jerome 131
Trump, Donald 174
Weill, Kurt Julian 73, 74, 79, 87, 189
Tucker, the Rev. Henry St. George 80
Weisenfreund, Moony
see
Muni, Paul
Tucker, Sophie 37, 41, 44, 153
Weissberg, Eric 181
Tune, Tommy 155, 173, 174
Welch, Raquel 171
Turn Hall 12
West, Mae 38
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
West Side Story
89, 90, 107–108, 137, 140, 151
170, 188–189
When Harry Met Sally.
182
Twitty, Conway 135
“When I Lost You” 53
Two and a Half Men
126
White, George 62–63
Two by Two
133
“White Christmas” 52
Two Kumi-Lemls
9
Whitehead, Sheridan 68
Two Little Girls in Blue
62
Whitfield, Stephen J. 99
Two on the Aisle
89
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
130
The 2000 Year Old Man
179
“Why Try to Change Me Now?” 167
220
Index
Wicked
139, 143, 183–184
X-rated theaters 161
The Wild Party
184, 186
Wildcat
167
Yale School of Drama 78, 154, 169
Wilder, Alec 52
Yale University 155, 183, 188
Wilder, Matthew 166
The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant
see
Wilder, Thornton 133
Damn Yankees
Wildflowers
56
Yentl
125, 144
The Will Rogers Follies
168, 173
Yentl the Yeshiva Boy
(Singer) 125
Williams, Bert 41
Yeston, Maury 155–156
Williams, Elizabeth 186
The Yiddish Bride
40
Windsor Theater 20
Yiddish language 4, 14, 16, 27–28, 70
Winged Victory
86
Yiddish theater 7–23; actors 18–19, 39; be-
Winter Garden Theater 41, 89, 124
ginning 8–11; influence 7–8, 12, 22, 28;
Winters, Shelley 77, 121
move to America 11–13; productions 20–
Wish You Were Here
123
21; theaters 13, 17–18, 20;
see also
Adler,
The Witch
9, 12, 13, 22
Jacob P.; Thomashefsky, Boris
Witch Hunt in Hollywood
(Michael) 103
Yip Yip Yaphank
51
“Witchcraft” 167
Yoelson, Asa
see
Jolson, Al
The Wizard of Oz
26, 87, 183
You Can’t Take It with You
68
Wodehouse, P.G. 55
Youmans, Vincent 50, 56, 62
Wolf, Frank 12
Young Frankenstein
179, 180
The Woman in White
166
“Younger Than Springtime” 58
Woman of the Year
141, 142, 158
Youngman, Henny 114
Women in Love
149
Your Show of Shows
112, 120, 126, 128, 179
women in theater: in modern theater 153–
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
185
155; in vaudeville 33–36, 39–40; in Yid-
dish theater 18–19
Zadora, Pia 122
Wonder, Stevie 166
Zaks, Jerry 155, 156–157, 189
Wonderful Town
88, 89
Zero Hour
193
Working Girl
130
Ziegfeld, Florenz 38–39, 55
The World According to Me
113
Ziegfeld Follies 38, 39–42, 49, 120, 162
The World of Sholom Aleichem
102
Ziegfeld Theater 55, 64, 104, 106
World War I 42
Zippel, David 166
World War II 78–80, 84–86, 121
Zorba
121, 141, 158
Wynn, Ed 37–38, 41
Zorba the Greek
(Kazantzakis) 141
221
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Immigration, Yiddish Theater and Building Broadway
- 2. Part of the Melting Pot
- 3. The Music of Broadway
- 4. Group Theater, Acting Teachers and Life During Wartime
- 5. From Communism to the Catskills
- 6. Jewish Themes, Legends and Life in the 1960s and 1970s
- 7. Young Playwrights with a Message, Inflation, Disney and Me
- 8. The New Millennium Sees Broadway Breakthroughs
- Epilogue
- Chapter Notes
- Bibliography
- Further Reading
- Index
