Jews on Broadway: An Historical Survey of Performers, Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists and Producers

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by Stewart F. Lane


  Zero Mostel:

  Zero Dances: A Biography by Arthur Sainer.

  Zero Mostel: A Biography by Jared Brown.

  Clifford Odets:

  Clifford Odets: American Playwright: The Years from 1906 to 1940 by Margaret Bren-man-Gibson.

  Joseph Papp:

  Joe Papp: An American Life by Helen Epstein.

  204

  Further Reading

  Jerome Robbins:

  Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Teacher, His Dance by Deborah Jowitt.

  Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins by Amanda Vaill.

  Richard Rodgers:

  Richard Rodgers, Musical Stages: An Autobiography.

  The Richard Rodgers Reader by Geoffrey Block.

  Rodgers and Hammerstein:

  Rodgers & Hammerstein by Ethan Mordden.

  The Sound of Music: The Story of Rodgers and Hammerstein by Frederick Nolan, Oscar Hammerstein, and Richard Rodgers.

  Stephen Schwartz:

  Defying Gravity: The Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz, from Godspell to Wicked by Carol de Giere.

  Neil Simon:

  Play Goes On: A Memoir by Neil Simon.

  Stephen Sondheim:

  Art Isn’t Easy: The Theater of Stephen Sondheim by Joanne Gordon.

  Lee Strasberg:

  A Dream of Passion by Lee Strasberg.

  The Lee Strasberg Notes by Lola Cohen.

  Barbra Streisand:

  The Importance of Being Barbra: The Brilliant, Tumultuous Career of Barbra Streisand, by Tom Santopietro.

  Charles Strouse:

  Put on a Happy Face: A Broadway Memoir by Charles Strouse.

  Wendy Wasserstein:

  Wendy Wasserstein: A Casebook by Claudia Barnett .

  Miscellaneous:

  Are You Now or Have You Been: The Investigation of Show Business by the Un-American Activities Committee 1947–1958 by Eric Bentley.

  Broadway: The American Musical by Michael Kantor and Laurence Maslon.

  Broadway and the Blacklist by Lillian Hellman Scoundrel Time.

  Broadway Musicals Show by Show by Stanley Green.

  Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s by Ethan Mordden.

  Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim by Geoffrey Block.

  Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical by Andrea Most.

  The Musical: A Look at the American Musical Theater by Richard Kislan.

  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

  Ber
nardi, 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 a
lso 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

  “The Cultural Cold War as History” (Whit -

  “Don’t Rain on My Parade” 104

  field) 99

  Dorsey, Jimmy 66

  Curb Your Enthusiasm 180

  Doubt 187

  curtain speech 9

  Drama Workshop 77

  Curtains 188

  Dreamgirls 152

  Cy Coleman Trio 167

  Dreyfuss, Richard 146

  Cyrano 143

  Driving Miss Daisy 170

  Cyrano de Bergerac 26

  The Drowsy Chaperone 188

  Czar Alexander II 10

  Duck Variations 153

  Czar Alexander III 10

  “Dueling Banjos” 181

  Dulcy 66

  The Daily Worker 96

  The Duplex 112

  Damn Yankees 105, 143, 189

  Durante, Jimmy 36, 61

  dance see individual dancers and choreogra-

  phers

  Earl Carroll Vanities 44

  “Dance of the Seven Veils” 34

  East Lynn 14

  Dark Passage 142

  Easter Parade 53

  Darkness at Noon 84

  Eastman Conservatory 135

  Dartmouth College 156

  Ebb, Fred 140

  Daryl Roth Theater 188

  The Ed Sullivan Show 31, 107, 113

  David, Hal 127

  “Edelweiss” 59

  David, Larry 180

  education, theater as 3, 4

  Davis, Bette 83, 85

  8½

  155

  Davis, Sammy, Jr. 64, 136

  Eisner, Michael 160, 162

  Dawn O’Hara 55

  Electra 186

  “Day by Day” 138

  The Elephant Man 179

  Dean, James 77

  Elisa Ben Avia 77

  The Dearborn Independent 48

  Elise, Rick 181

  Death of a Salesman 97–98, 115

  Ellis Island 7, 11

  Delacorte Theater 146

  Emmy Awards 61, 178, 189

  De La Guarda 188

  Empire Theater 23

  Deliverance 181

  An English Daisy 54

  De Niro, Robert 78

  English language in theater 4, 14, 16, 27–28,

  The Depression 48, 71

  70

  210

  Index

  Enter Laughing 121

  44th Street Theater 85

  Ethel Barrymore Theater 87

  The Forty-Niners 65

  ethnic tolerance, Broadway influencing 45

  42nd Street 134

  Eugene O’Neill Theater 125, 127

  42nd Street and Broadway 85, 91, 160

  Eugene trilogy 128

  Fosse, Bob 112, 138, 141, 173

  An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine

  Foster, Sutton 186

 

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