Entertaining America: Jewish anxiety about inclusion is a formative strain in America's musical-theatre heritage.(New Books)(Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical)(Book Review)
American Theatre, July, 2004 by Wasserstein, Wendy
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MAKING AMERICANS: JEWS AND THE BROADWAY MUSICAL [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] by Andrea Most, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 272 pp, $29.95 cloth. I HAVE OFTEN WONDERED HOW RODGERS and Hammerstein, two urban Jewish theatre artists, managed to write wildly successful musicals about farmers and cowmen in Oklahoma, barkers on a carousel or the Von Trapp family climbing the Alps.
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I would speculate to friends about how Oscar Hammerstein could possibly have known that the corn was as high as an elephant's eye, having grown up in New York City. Andrea Most, in ...
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