Jews on Broadway: An Historical Survey of Performers, Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists and Producers (39 page)

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

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• 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