Marx, Jeff 184
A Moon for the Misbegotten 186
Marx, Minnie 42
Morath, Inge 99
Marx Brothers 42–43, 66, 69
Morgan, Harry 73
Mary Poppins 163, 165
Morgan, Henry 95
Masked Ball 23
Morgenthau, Henry, Jr. 80
Mason, Jackie 111, 113
Morris, Richard 185
The Matchmaker 133
Morse, Robert 134
Mature, Victor 69
Morton, Frederick 125
May, Elaine 121, 129
Moscow Art Theater 72, 77
Maya 115
Mostel, Samuel Joel see Mostel, Zero
Mayer, Michael 185–186
Mostel, Zero 95, 99–101, 111, 122, 193
Maytime 24
Mother Courage and Her Children 72, 150,
Maza, Yacov Moshe see Mason, Jackie
151
McCarthy, Joseph 94, 98
Mother Goose 162
Me and My Gal 158
Movietone News 135
Medal of Merit 53
Mulan 166
Meet the People 87, 101
Muni, Paul 28, 80, 115
Megrue, Roi Cooper 17
Music Box Revues 51
215
Index
Music Box Theater 51, 67
Noises Off 186
Music College, Chicago 104
The Normal Heart 147, 149
Music in the Air 55, 57
Northwestern University School of Music
The Music Man 108, 186
120
musicals 49–50, 104–109, 137; see also indi-
Norworth, Jack 35
vidual composers and lyricists
Mussolini, Benito 48
Obie Award 169
“My Coloring Book” 140
The Odd Couple 127, 130, 182
My Fair Lady 69, 105–106, 107, 155, 163
The Odessa Beggar 15
“My Favorite Things” 59
Odets, Clifford: career 81–82, 95, 98, 136;
“My Funny Valentine” 60, 61
and Group Theater 73, 74, 75
My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish and
Of Thee I Sing 63, 67
I’m in Therapy 193
An Officer and a Gentleman 187
My Sister Eileen 104
Oh, Boy! 55
The Mystery of Edwin Drood 147
“Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morn-
ing” 51, 52
name changes 40, 76, 92
“Oh! How I Laugh When I Think How I
National Theater 20
Cried About You” 44
Nazimova, Alla 26
Oh Kay! 63
Nazimova Theater 26
“Oh What a Beautiful Morning” 57
Nederlander, David 25
Oklahoma! 57–58, 61
Nederlander, James 25, 164, 171, 187, 189
“Ol’ Man River” 55
Nestroy, Johann 133
Old Money 154
Neuwirth, Bebe 143, 189–190
Oleana 153
New Amsterdam Theater 23, 51, 162, 184
Oliver! 132
New Dance League 90
Olympia Theater 25
New Faces of 1937 44
On the Town 58, 88, 89
New Faces of 1952 121, 179
On Trial 82
New Girl in Town 123
On Your Toes 61, 158
New Journeymen 181
Once in a Lifetime 67
New School for Social Research 77
Once Upon a Mattress 182
New Victory Theater 161
One Touch of Venus 87
New York City Ballet 90
O’Neill, Eugene 123
New York City Opera House 55, 182–183
Oppenheim, Tom 77–78
New York College of Music 54, 167
Orbach, Jerry 143
New York Drama Circle Critics’ Award 97
Osbourne, Jane 131
“New York, New York” 88, 141
Oscar see Academy Awards
New York Philharmonic 89
Osterwald, Bibi 133
New York Times 65
Othello 162
New York Tribune 65
Our Heroine 58
New York University 78, 99, 112, 163, 185,
Outer Critics Circle Award 157
187, 193
Outrageous Fortune 157
New Yorker magazine 69
Over There 165
Newfoundland Theater 150
Oxford University 99
Newman, Paul 77
Newman, Phyllis 173
Pacino, Al 77
Nichols, Anne 45
Paint Your Wagon 72, 106
Nichols, Mike 129, 192
The Pajama Game 105
Nick and Nora 188
Pal Joey 61
A Night at the Opera 66
Palace Theater 25, 44, 136, 174
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail 116
Papirofsky, Joseph see Papp, Joseph
Nine 155–156
Papp, Joseph 139, 145–147, 159
9/11 177–178
Parade 171
No, No, Nanette 56
Paradise Lost 81
No Siree! 65
Park Avenue Synagogue 90
No Strings 62
Parker, Dorothy 65, 68
216
Index
Partners Again 46
Proof 188
Passion 168, 170
Public Theater 139, 146, 152
Patinkin, Mandy 168
Pulitzer Prize: Angels in America 150; A patriotism 53, 92
Chorus Line 139; Death of a Salesman 97; The Patriots 84
Fiorello! 121; Girl Crazy 63; Glengarry Glen
“People” 104, 124
Ross 153; The Heidi Chronicles 154; How to
“People Will Say We’re in Love” 57
Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
People’s Art Theater, Beijing 98
104; In Abraham’s Bosom 73; Men in White
People’s Theater 20
74, 84; Miller, Arthur 99; Of Thee I Sing
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
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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
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