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
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
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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
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Document Outline
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
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