Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy — Page 2

Great documentary. I learned a lot! Loved hearing Laurents tell the Passover Seder story about Merman and her ham sandwich. Classic. Priceless. Also.. the irony surrounding the work of Irving Berlin never hit me until this documentary. The best-selling Christmas song of all time ("White Christmas") was written by a Jew. The most popular secular Easter song of all time ("Easter Parade") was written by a Jew. He was and is the greatest American songwriter of all time.

My DVR says there's an encore performance this morning (at 2am I believe).

I guess George M. Cohan had no influence on the development of the American Musical Theater.

Was George M. Cohan Jewish? I think Porter, a non-Jew, got so much attention because his music was influenced by Jewish music.