Authors: Stewart F. Lane
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Perestroika
150
67;
Oklahoma!
58;
Rent
151; Rodgers and Perlman, S.J. 68
Hammerstein 61;
So Big
55;
Street Scene
Perry, Antoinette 92
82;
You Can’t Take It with You
68
persecution, Jewish 3, 7, 10, 40
puppetry 166
Peschkowsky, Michael Igor
see
Nichols,
Purim Shpiels 3
Mike
Pyekoon, Margaret
see
Picon, Molly
Peter Pan
24, 89, 104
Pygmalion
105
Phantom of the Opera
157
Philadelphia Theater Company 62
The Queen of Basin Street
172
Phillips, John 181
Queens College 139
Phillips, Michelle 181
Photograph
169
Rabe, David 147
Picon, Molly 19, 34–35, 122, 123, 153
Rabinowitz, Jerome Wilson
see
Robbins,
Pidgeon, Walter 132
Jerome
“Pinko Playwright Weds Sex Goddess”
racism 41, 55, 64, 119
99
Radner, Gilda 153
Pins and Needles
123
Rags
121, 137
Pippin
138, 139, 184
“Rags to Riches” 105
Pirate Queen
159
Raiders of the Lost Ark
161
The Pirates of Penzance
147
Rankin, John 103
Play It Again, Sam
112, 152
Raye, Martha 133
playwrights
see
individual playwrights
The Real Thing
186
Plaza Suite
127, 130
Reiner, Carl 79, 111, 121, 129, 179
Pocahontas
139, 164
Reizenstein, Elmer Leopold
see
Rice, Elmer
Poitier, Sidney 64
Rent
151, 184, 185
politically incorrect vaudeville 32
Republic Theater 23, 25, 27, 161, 162
politics in theater 74, 79, 82
Resurrection
16
Poor Little Ritz Girl
60
The Retributionists
194
Porg y
(Heyward) 63
revivals 177
Porg y and Bess
50, 63
Reynolds, Debbie 171
Porter, Cole 50
“Rhapsody in Blue” 63
Pound, Ezra 48
Rhinoceros
100
Power of Darkness
16
“Rialto Rag” 62
Present Arms
61
Rice, Elmer 82–83
Preston, Robert 133
Rice, Tim 159
The Price
98
Rich, Frank 172
Price, Vincent 79
Richards, Marty 173
Prince, Harold 100–101, 108, 121, 184
Rickles, Don 111, 121
The Prince of Eg ypt
139
Riggs, Lynn 57
The Princess Bride
183
Rivers, Joan 153
Princess Theater 55
Riverside Shakespeare Company 147
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
127, 130
The Robber Bridegroom
170
Processional
72
Robbins, Jerome: career 90–91; as inform-
The Producers
14, 86, 114, 177, 179, 180
ant 100–101, 102; productions 58, 89, 101,
producers
see
individual producers
107–108, 121, 123–124
Promenade Theater 138
Roberta
56
Promises, Promises
127, 133, 143, 152
Roberts, Tony 134
217
Index
Robin, Leo 104
Seven Lively Arts
87
Robinson, Edward G. 17, 95, 98
1776
156, 186
Robinson Crusoe, Jr.
41
Sexual Perversity in Chicago
153
Rodgers, Mary 182
sexual revolution 121
Rodgers, Richard: career 57, 59–62, 137;
Shaiman, Marc 181–182
family 182; productions 52, 68;
see also
Shakespeare in the Park 146, 151, 166
Hammerstein, Oscar, II
“Shall We Dance?” 58
Rogers, Ginger 66, 133
Shalom
see
Milk and Honey
Rogers, Will 40
Shaw, George Bernard 26
Roman, Freddie 114
She Stoops to Conquer
144
Romberg, Sigmund 162
Shear, Claudia 170
Rome, Harold 123
Sheen, Al 42, 43
Ronstadt, Linda 146
Sheen, Martin 78, 146
Roosevelt, Eleanor 80
Sheinkin, Rachel 188
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 79, 80
Shenendoah
23
Rose-Marie
56
Sherman, Al 165
Ross, Jerry 105
Sherman, Richard 165
Roth, Daryl 187–188
Sherman, Robert 165
The Rothschilds
125
Sherwood, Robert E. 65
The Royal Family
55
Shevelove, Burt 101
Royal National Theater, London 150
Shinbone Alley 179
Rudner, Rita 153
Shire, David 188
Rumania and Yiddish Theater 8
Shmendrik
9
Russell, Rosalind 89
Show Boat
50, 55, 57
Russia and Yiddish Theater 8, 11
Shrek
177
Ruth, Babe 38
Shubert, Jacob: career 24, 41–42, 49; the-
Ryskind, Morrie 66
aters 26, 39, 85
Shubert, Lee: career 24, 41–42, 49; theaters
Sabbath 11, 13, 122
26, 39, 85
“Sadie Salome, Go Home” 34, 51
Shubert, Sam: career 24, 41–42, 49; theaters
Sag Harbor
161
26, 39, 85
Sager, Carole Bayer 128
Shubert Organization 24, 147
St. James Theater 58, 186
Shubert Theater 89, 132, 139
Salem witch hunts 96–97
Shue, Larry 157
Salomé
19
Side by Side with Sondheim
168
Saluta!
44
silent films 44
Sandrow, Nahma 8, 9, 10, 12, 18, 22–23
Silent Movie
179
Saturday Night Fever
161
Silverman, Sarah 153
Satz, Ludwig 17
Silvers, Phil 101, 104, 126
Scandals
62–63
Simon, Carly 168
Scanlon, Dick 151, 185
Simon, Danny 126
Schisgal, Murray 130
Simon, Neil 86, 112, 126–129, 130
Schonberg, Bessie 90
Simon, Paul 158
Schönberg, Claude-Michel 159
Sinatra, Frank 79, 167, 168, 177
Schwartz, Jerome Lawrence
see
Lawrence,
Sinbad
41
Jerome
Singer, Isaac Bashevis 125
Schwartz, Stephen Lawrence 137–139, 183
The Singing Rabbi
14
Scopes Monkey Trial 115
The Sisters Rosensweig
154
Scott, George C. 146
Six Degrees of Separation
157
Second Avenue Theater 20
Slattery, Mary 99
“Second Hand Rose” 40
Sleeper
181
The Secret Garden
159, 168, 186
Sleeping Beauty
162
Seinfeld
28, 120
Smith, Kate 52
Select Theaters 49
Smith College 156
Sergeant Bilko
126
“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” 56
Sesame Street 185
Smokey Joe’s Café
157
218
Index
Snow White
162
Sweet Adeline
57
So Big
55
Sweet Bird of Youth
72
Solomon, Steve 193
Sweet Chariot
158
“Some Enchanted Evening” 58
Sweet Charity
127, 167, 189
Some Like It Hot
134
Something for the Boys
86
Table Settings
169
Sondheim, Stephen: personal 67; produc-
Take Me Along
121, 132
tions 100, 108, 109, 168, 170
Take Me Out
187
The Sound of Music
59, 109, 119, 132, 163
Take the Money and Run
139
South Pacific
58, 92
Taking It on the Road
147
Soviet Union and the Cold War 94, 95
The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife
187, 188
Spamalot
130, 190–192
Tales of the South Pacific
58
Speed the Plow
153
Talk of New York
33
Spencer, David 164–165
Tarzan
166
Spencer, Elizabeth 183
Taymor, Julie 166
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
167
Tchin-Tchin
132
Spingarn, Joel 80
teachers of acting 76–78
Spring Awakening
186
television specials 141
Stage Door
66
The Tempest
150
Stage Door Canteen 85
Tesori, Jeanine 150–151, 185
Stanislavski, Constantin 72, 77
Tevye and His Daughters
(Aleichem) 121
A Star Is Born
64
Thalia Theater 20
The Star-Spangled Girl
127
theater: as education 3, 4, 8; as meeting
Starlight Express
158
place and forum 17–18, 49, 82; as preser-
“Steam Heat” 105
vation of culture 7, 30, 120
Stein, Gertrude 169
Theater for a New Audience 147
Stein, Joseph 121, 125
Theater Guild 72
Stella Adler Conservatory 77
Theater Guild Award 97
Stella Adler Studio of Acting 77;
see also
theaters
see
Broadway; individual theaters
Adler, Stella
Theatre Republic 27, 161;
see also
Republic
stereotypes, Jewish: on Broadway 45, 46,
Theater
113, 119; in vaudeville 32, 35–36
“There’s No Business Like Show Business”
Stock Market crash 48, 53, 65
52
Stone, Peter 156, 173
They Should Have Stood in Bed
101
Stop the World — I Want to Get Off
132, 142
They’re Playing Our Song
114, 128, 133, 139
Storm, Howie 112
This Is the Army
52, 86
Strasberg, Lee 28, 60, 72, 76–77, 115
This One Man
115
Strasberg, Paula 115
Thomashefsky, Bessie Baumfeld-Kaufman
Strasberg, Susan 114–115
18–19
Strasberg Method 76–77
Thomashefsky, Boris 8, 12–15, 17, 20, 110–111
Streep, Meryl 146
Thomashefsky, Fanny 19
Street Scene
82, 87
Thomashefsky, Michael 19
A Streetcar Named Desire
75
Thoroughly Modern Millie
151, 177, 185
Streisand, Barbra 123–125, 131, 140
Threepenny Opera
87, 105
Strike Up the Band
63, 66
ticket prices 20, 158, 177
Strouse, Charles 134–137, 142
Tick.Tick.BOOM!
151
Styne, Jule 104, 107, 109, 123–124, 134
Till the Day I Die
81–82
Subways Are for Sleeping
89, 131, 151–152
Tilson Thomas, Michael 18, 22
Sugar
124, 134
Time Remembered
115
“Summertime” 64
Times Square 23, 25, 160
Sunday in the Park with George
168–169,
Tin Pan Alley 28, 50, 62, 164, 165
170, 172
Tip Toes
63
Sunny
57
Titanic
156
The Sunshine Boys
127, 129
To the Ladies
66
“Swanee” 62
“Tomorrow” 137
Sweeney Todd
108, 168
The Tonight Show
181
219
Index
Tony Awards 92, 145;
All My Sons
97;
Ap-
Uhry, Alfred 170–171
plause
136, 142;
Avenue Q
185;
Awake and
Unce Upon a Mattress
102
Sing!
74;
Bells Are Ringing
107; Bloomgar-Uncle Tom’s Cabin
14, 19, 35
den, Kermit 115;
Broadway Bound
129;
Bye
Under Fire
17
Bye Birdie
136;
Cabaret
140, 142;
La Cage
United Service Organization (USO) 86
Aux Folles
172;
Chapter Two
128;
Chicago
University of Miami 132
141;
A Chorus Line
139, 152;
City of Angels
Up in One
182
166, 168;
Crazy for You
158;
The Crucible
Upper East Side, Manhattan 67
98, 115;
Death of a Salesman
115;
The Diary
of Anne Frank
115;
The Drowsy Chaperone
Vagabond Stars, a World of Yiddish Theater
188;
Evita
168;
Falsettos
169–170;
Fiddler
(Sandrow) 8
on the Roof
121, 122;
Fiorello!
121;
A Funny
Vallee, Rudee 63
Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Van Dyke, Dick 136
101;
Guys and Dolls
104, 157;
Hairspray
vaudeville 26, 30–31, 32, 33–38, 87;
see
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