John Kenrick
Broadway’s Great Jewish Songwriters - Part II
Mondays, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 8, 15
$180, $120 for Temple Emanu-El members
OFFERED IN-PERSON
For more than a century, Jewish songwriters have provided many of the greatest songs heard on Broadway and in Hollywood musicals. Entertainment historian John Kenrick returns to pull back the curtain on the private lives and dazzling careers of eight Jewish composers whose words and music have delighted audiences from the 1920s to today, becoming staples of the American soundtrack.
Session 1: George & Ira Gershwin (Girl Crazy, An American in Paris)
Session 2: E. Y. “Yip” Harburg (The Wizard of Oz, Finian’s Rainbow)
Session 3: Frank Loesser (Guys and Dolls, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)
Session 4: Leonard Bernstein (Candide, West Side Story)
Session 5: Jerry Herman (Hello Dolly, La Cage Aux Folles)
Session 6: John Kander & Fred Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago)