From Broadway To The Bowery

Author : Leonard Getz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786487424

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From Broadway to the Bowery by Leonard Getz Pdf

In 1935 Sidney Kingsley's play about streetwise urban kids, Dead End, opened on Broadway featuring 14 adolescent actors. For two years on Broadway and then on tour, Kingsley's play delivered its social commentary contrasting affluent neighborhoods and tenement slums on New York City's East River. The film industry picked up the story and in 1937 released Dead End which spawned 23 more years of films and serials featuring the Dead End Kids and their offshoots, Little Tough Guys, East Side Kids and the Bowery Boys. This chronicle follows the street kids through the many assorted incarnations, shifting casts and studios. First the reader is introduced to how the original play and film came about. A cast list and analysis of each production follows. For the major players, the author provides a biography and filmography, and several of these entries include a tribute from a friend or family member. Brief biographical profiles are given for other actors. Sketches of the "Dead End" revivals of 1978 and 2005 follow.

Author : Christopher Shannon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215310231

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Bowery to Broadway by Christopher Shannon Pdf

Here, Shannon guides readers through a number of classic films from the 1930s and a T40s and investigates why films featuring Irish American characters were so popular among American audiences during a period when the Irish were still stereotyped and scorned for their religion.

Author : Edna Nahshon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231541077

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New York’s Yiddish Theater by Edna Nahshon Pdf

In the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York City's Lower East Side. Original dramas, comedies, musicals, and vaudeville, along with sophisticated productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov, were innovatively staged for crowds that rivaled the audiences on Broadway. Though these productions were in Yiddish and catered to Eastern European, Jewish audiences (the largest immigrant group in the city at the time), their artistic innovations, energetic style, and engagement with politics and the world around them came to influence all facets of the American stage. Vividly illustrated and with essays from leading historians and critics, this book recounts the heyday of "Yiddish Broadway" and its vital contribution to American Jewish life and crossover to the broader American culture. These performances grappled with Jewish nationalism, labor relations, women's rights, religious observance, acculturation, and assimilation. They reflected a range of genres, from tear-jerkers to experimental theater. The artists who came of age in this world include Stella Adler, Eddie Cantor, Jerry Lewis, Sophie Tucker, Mel Brooks, and Joan Rivers. The story of New York's Yiddish theater is a tale of creativity and legacy and of immigrants who, in the process of becoming Americans, had an enormous impact on the country's cultural and artistic development.

Author : Fran Leadon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393285451

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Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles by Fran Leadon Pdf

“Part lively social history, part architectural survey, here is the story of Broadway—from 17th-century cow path to Great White Way.”—Geoff Wisner, Wall Street Journal From Bowling Green all the way to Marble Hill, Fran Leadon takes us on a mile-by-mile journey up America’s most vibrant and complex thoroughfare, through the history at the heart of Manhattan. Broadway traces the physical and social transformation of an avenue that has been both the “Path of Progress” and a “street of broken dreams,” home to both parades and riots, startling wealth and appalling destitution. Glamorous, complex, and sometimes troubling, the evolution of an oft-flooded dead end to a canyon of steel and glass is the story of American progress.

Author : Armond Fields,L. Marc Fields
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003436925

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From the Bowery to Broadway by Armond Fields,L. Marc Fields Pdf

This fascinating tour of Broadway's beginnings and the early days of the American popular theater features revealing anecdotes about a who's who of early Broadway, including Helen Hayes, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, and Fredric March--all discoveries of Lew Fields. 50 halftone illustrations.

Author : David Hayes,Brent Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1193407552

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Films of the Bowery Boys by David Hayes,Brent Walker Pdf

Author : James Hardie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : NYPL:33433058768759

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The Description of the City of New York ... by James Hardie Pdf

Author : Stephen Paul DeVillo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781510726871

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The Bowery by Stephen Paul DeVillo Pdf

From peglegged Peter Stuyvesant to CBGB’s, the story of the Bowery reflects the history of the city that grew up around it. It was the street your mother warned you about—even if you lived in San Francisco. Long associated with skid row, saloons, freak shows, violence, and vice, the Bowery often showed the worst New York City had to offer. Yet there were times when it showed its best as well. The Bowery is New York’s oldest street and Manhattan’s broadest boulevard. Like the city itself, it has continually reinvented itself over the centuries. Named for the Dutch farms, or bouweries, of the area, the path’s lurid character was established early when it became the site of New Amsterdam’s first murder. A natural spring near the Five Points neighborhood led to breweries and taverns that became home to the gangs of New York—the “Bowery B’hoys,” “Plug Uglies,” and “Dead Rabbits.” In the Gaslight Era, teenaged streetwalkers swallowed poison in McGurk’s Suicide Hall. A brighter side to the street was reflected in places of amusement and culture over the years. A young P.T. Barnum got his start there, and Harry Houdini learned showmanship playing the music halls and dime museums. Poets, singers, hobos, gangsters, soldiers, travelers, preachers, storytellers, con-men, and reformers all gathered there. Its colorful cast of characters includes Peter Stuyvesant, Steve Brodie, Carry Nation, Stephen Foster, Stephen Crane, and even Abraham Lincoln. The Bowery: The Strange History of New York’s Oldest Street traces the full story of this once notorious thoroughfare from its pre-colonial origins to the present day.

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : New York (State)
ISBN : UIUC:30112105558859

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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly Pdf

Author : Lucy Sante
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466895638

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Low Life by Lucy Sante Pdf

The classic social history of corruption and vice in nineteenth-century NYC: “A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves” (John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review). Lucy Sante’s Low Life is a portrait of America’s greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city’s slums; the teeming streets—scene of innumerable cons and crimes whose cramped and overcrowded housing is still a prominent feature of the cityscape. Low Life voyages through Manhattan from four different directions. Part One examines the actual topography of Manhattan from 1840 to 1919; Part Two, the era’s opportunities for vice and entertainment—theaters and saloons, opium and cocaine dens, gambling and prostitution; Part Three investigates the forces of law and order which did and didn’t work to contain the illegalities; Part Four counterposes the city’s tides of revolt and idealism against the city as it actually was. Low Life is one of the most provocative books about urban life ever written—an evocation of the mythology of the quintessential modern metropolis, which has much to say not only about New York’s past but about the present and future of all cities.

Author : Dominic Symonds
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472130597

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Broadway Rhythm by Dominic Symonds Pdf

Imaginative walking tours that retrace the map of Manhattan as it resonates with the music of Broadway

Author : New York (State),Elisha B. Strong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104871357

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Laws of the State of New-York by New York (State),Elisha B. Strong Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : PRNC:32101072360272

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Doggett's New-York City Directory, for ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : OSU:32435023103047

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The New York City Directory, for ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN : HARVARD:HXUWH1

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Francis's New Guide to the Cities of New-York and Brooklyn, and the Vicinity by Anonim Pdf