Jesse Oxfeld
By Jesse Oxfeld
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Culture ‘You Can’t Take It With You’ Returns to Broadway With Jewish Look at Gentiles
“You Can’t Take It With You” sure isn’t going anywhere. It was Moss Hart and George S. Kaufmann’s third play and second big hit, and it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. The next year, Frank Capra adapted it for the movies, with Jimmy Stewart as his star, and the film won two Oscars, for…
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Culture A Tale of Twins Who Are Connected — Very Closely
To hear it described, or perhaps even to watch it, the thing can seem uncomfortably like a “Family Guy” fantasy-cutaway parody of a Broadway musical. Consider, especially, its finale: two women, quite literally joined at the hip, belting a tender, plaintive anthem titled “I Will Never Leave You.” There is the pathos, the self-seriousness, the…
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