Authors: Stewart F. Lane
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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
Bernardi, 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 also
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 -