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LAST DAY: Early Bird rate for ALL-ACCESS Passes

Blazing Saddles: The Musical?

THIS WEEK ONLY: Early Bird rate for 2022 ALL-ACCESS

JUST ADDED: Mel Brooks Musicals

Is "Yentl" even a musical?

TOMORROW: Wicked with book writer Winnie Holzman

Spielberg's West Side Story: shut up and sing already

THURSDAY: Analyzing "West Side Story"

Starting at Noon ET: "Chicago" Watch Party

How "Chicago" got murdered at the Tonys

TOMORROW: Parade with Alfred Uhry

The worst Jewish musical ever? "Chu Chem" was no "Fiddler"

TOMORROW: Godspell

Sondheim Memory Room RE-OPENS: 5-8 pm ET

OPEN NOW: Memory Room honoring the life and music of Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Schwartz, Ecumenical Balladeer

BIG DEAL: Next Broadway Maven guests

NEXT WEEK: Godspell (FREE online class)

TOMORROW: FREE "Introduction to Broadway" session

NEXT WEEK: Introduction to Broadway FREE first session

Introduction to Broadway: FIRST CLASS FREE

Broadway's Best 72 Songs

LAST CHANCE: Today's Early Bird deadline for "Introduction to Broadway"

FRIDAY: Early Bird deadline for "Intro to Broadway"

ONE WEEK LEFT: Intro to Broadway Early Bird rate

TOMORROW: Disney's Jews

The Broadway Maven Crossword Puzzle

NO Weekly Blast this week (Yom Kippur)

JUST ANNOUNCED: "Introduction to Broadway"

TODAY: Les Misérables

Why can't Broadway musicalize tomes - except Les Miz?

TOMORROW (no pun intended): Annie

The racial politics of Annie's color (Annie Live! has been cast)

Rodgers... "& Hart"? Or "& Hammerstein"?

TOMORROW: Bye Bye Birdie

Broadway's nightmare mothers

TOMORROW: Broadway's "Anything Goes"

Cole Porter's sexually coded lyrics

TOMORROW: Thoroughly Modern Millie with Creator Dick Scanlan

Can You Help The Broadway Maven?

Jazz Age Musicals: Chicago, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Shuffle Along, and more

TOMORROW: Hairspray with Marc Shaiman

Remembering Broadway's Comedy Oasis

TOMORROW: Early Broadway

No, no, Cole Porter wasn't Broadway's only gentile lyricist

TOMORROW: Gershwin on Broadway

Ira was a Gershwin too...

Next Guests Announced: Creators of Hairspray, Thoroughly Modern Millie

"Sunrise, Sunset" for gay weddings: PRIDE issue

Shalom, Dolly? Is Dolly Levi Jewish?

TOMORROW: Jewish singer-songwriters

TODAY: ALL-ACCESS Early Bird deadline (save $20)

TWO DAYS LEFT: $39 ALL-ACCESS Pass (save $20)

Best of Ragtime: enjoy Lynn Ahrens's songs before her guest appearance

ONE WEEK LEFT: Early Bird rate for ALL-ACCESS PASS

Tomorrow: Fiddler on the Roof

Anatevka in Tel Aviv? Fiddler in Israel

Great News! Lyricist Lynn Ahrens is coming to our "Ragtime" class June 14

Evita's "False Accents"

Just announced: Summer ALL-ACCESS Pass

MEGA-Quiz: How's Your Broadway Knowledge? 100 questions for show-tune mavens

June: FREE "Jewish Broadway" course

The genius of the Hebrew translation of "Bring Him Home" from Les Misérables

TOMORROW: "Funny Jews" course starts

Rent's Angel killed a dog. Why don't we care?

"Into the Woulds" and other Sondheim wordplay titles: "Sunday," "Gypsy"

Special offer for Broadway Maven students: $15 signed copy of Plunder

What the Hell is up with "Cabaret"?

FUNNY JEWS early bird deadline TOMORROW

Is Hair's nude scene a gimmick?

"Shofar, Show Good": Judaism in West Side Story

Just announced: FUNNY JEWS Seminar

"You're Just a Bagel...." Broadway's Yiddish Lyrics

FREE Monday: Chicago, the Musical

The Secret of Chicago's Success, in all "Kander" (& Ebb)

FREE Monday: Avenue Q

Avenue Q, Wizard-slayer (how it beat Wicked)

FREE Monday: Contemporary Jewish Broadway

Problem with gift subscriptions

Broadway's Next Jewish Show?

ALERT: Weekly Blast launches Monday

What's next for Disney on Broadway?

More FREE tickets for Monday's "A Chorus Line" class released

Broadway Champs Before and After "A Chorus Line"

New Feature: Watch-When-You-Want

Springtime for Nazi humor (Mel Brooks and "The Producers")

Introducing TheBroadwayMaven.com

Jewish-Adjacent Voice Actors Angela Lansbury, David Ogden Stiers, and Jerry Orbach

March FREE Broadway tickets going fast

Disney or Der Stürmer? The House of Mouse's Anti-Semitic Caricature

TONIGHT: Carole King and Debbie Friedman, tomorrow Mel Brooks

Funny-Pages Broadway: comic-strip musicals ranked (you thought "Annie" was the only one?)

TOMORROW: Mel Brooks! Also: Kids' Broadway series announced for February

Would you dress your toddler as "Slutty Sandy" for Halloween? (Why do families love Grease?)

Clear access instructions for Monday classes

Is The Music Man overrated?

"Cartoon Jews" announced for February

The Broadway Maven's Weekly Blast: Is there really no Hebrew word for "Lady?"

Greatest Hits classes: Photographers, Poets, "Cabaret," singer-songwriters