In Spamalot, the musical based on the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Sir Robin emphatically tells King Arthur that despite having animals from zoos or the finest of reviews, they won’t succeed on Broadway if they “don’t have any Jews.”
And, it appears, he is not the only one to have made this observation.
On Nov. 15, more than 40 people gathered at Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel to hear Tom Stretton, a past Cheltenham High School teacher and Cabrini College professor as well as Broadway enthusiast, in a program titled “Do You Hear the Music? — Jews and the Broadway Musical.”
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