ISBN:
9780786459179
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 221 S.
Year of publication:
2011
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Lane, Stewart F. Jews on Broadway
DDC:
791.089/924
Keywords:
Jews in the performing arts History 20th century
;
Jewish entertainers History 20th century
;
Jews in popular culture
;
Theater History 20th century
;
Musicals History and criticism 20th century
;
New York
;
Theater
;
Musical
;
Film
;
Juden
;
Broadway (New York, N.Y.)
;
Broadway
;
Geschichte 1880-
;
Juden
Abstract:
"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
Abstract:
"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
Description / Table of 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=33186
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