Part of Whose World? Jews, Disney, and Broadway: a workshop with Jodi Eichler-Levine, Lehigh University

How does the history of Jews and Broadway musicals intersect with the worlds of Disney cinematic and theatrical music? Drawing from a larger book project on religion and the Walt Disney company, Dr. Eichler-Levine will workshop examples of how Jewish creators infused what Andrea Most calls “theatrical liberalism” into the first Disney century, with a particular focus on two famous writing teams: brothers Richard and Robert Sherman (Mary Poppins; The Sword in the Stone) and friends Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (The Little Mermaid; Beauty and the Beast).