It is true that the vast majority of the musical theater’s greatest composers have been Jewish. From Irving Berlin to George Gershwin to Richard Rodgers to Stephen Sondheim, they have shaped this uniquely American art form. This hour-long lecture surveys the evolution...
The musical theater was often lightweight entertainment until a protegee of Oscar Hammerstein II came along to challenge our perception of what a musical could be. An ethnic clash of street gangs (West Side Story)? A jaundiced look at marriage through the eyes of a...
Broadway’s most popular and most financially successful playwright wrote more than 30 comedies for the stage, including Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple and his autobiographical Brighton Beach trilogy. In addition, he penned the book of a handful of Broadway...
Andrew Lloyd Webber, described by The New York Times as “the most commercially successful composer in history,” has written 21 musicals, from his early “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” commissioned for a children’s choir...
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