Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy offers a dazzling insight into the Jewish composers and lyricists who created The Great American Songbook – a canon of the most important and most influential American popular songs of the 20th century.
Over the fifty-year period of its development, the songs of the Broadway musical were created almost exclusively by Jewish Americans. Michael Kantor’s riveting, toe-tapping film features interviews and conversations with some of the greatest composers and writers of the Broadway stage, and some of the nation’s pre-eminent creators of musical theatre including Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Kurt Weill, Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz, Jules Styne and many others.
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