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

by Stewart F. Lane

From Fanny Brice, Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern to Barbra Streisand, Alan Menken and Tony Kushner, 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 ghettos staging Yiddish productions on New York's Lower East Side to their significant social and cultural impact on the stages of Broadway. Includes insights and anecdotes from a life spent working with many of the Jewish legends of American theater.

231 pages, Paperback

First published February 24, 2011

Reviews

[Jonas Schwartz-Owen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wow. The amount of historical errors are tremendous. It appears no one edited his book. He gave song titles to the wrong composers, misspelled artists several times and at one point lists the wrong year for a play that HE produced. As a broadway insider with several Broadway shows and the founding of BroadwayHD he really should have done better.