Jews on Broadway an historical survey of performers, playwrights, composers, lyricists and producers /

"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...

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Tác giả chính: Lane, Stewart F.
Tác giả của công ty: ebrary, Inc
Định dạng: Điện tử eBook
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2011.
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Mục lục:
  • 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.