Just Married and Linger Longer Letty, for which Nichols provided the book, predate her long-running
Abie's Irish Rose, but that fact won't stop people from congratulating her on Abie's by saying, "Weren't you lucky to have your first play turn out to be such a hit!"
In doing so, he examines materials including immigration laws, lynching, hostile race theorists, Nazis and Klansmen, discriminatory university practices, and Jewish publishing houses alongside popular plays like The Melting Pot and
Abie's Irish Rose, canonical novels like Ulysses and Daniel Deronda, music from slave spirituals to jazz, poetry, and early films such as The Jazz Singer, The models of brotherhood that extended beyond ethnocentrism a century ago, the author argues, might do so once again today, if only we bear them in mind.
Together with three of her graduate students, she put together a treasure trove of historical artifactsfrom the New York Times' coverage of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911 to a poster for the 1928 movie
Abie's Irish Rose, about an interfaith relationship between a Catholic woman and a Jewish manthat are strewn throughout the game.
Spielberg wrings some drollery from this
Abie's Irish Rose material; but he has a more serious subject in mind.
The theater also featured one of Broadway's longest running plays, the Irish-Jewish comedy "
Abie's Irish Rose," which played 2,327 times over six seasons starting in 1922.
Abie's Irish Rose by Anne Nichols opened at the Fulton Theatre in New York City, beginning a record run of 2327 performances before it closed on Oct.
The most laugh-out-loud funny are critic Robert Benchley's series of scathing weekly-bulletin reviews about how much he hated
Abie's Irish Rose, a popular comedy about a mixed marriage between an Irish Catholic girl and a young Jewish man, which he never expected to run 2,327 performances.
M 1963-64 2,844 Wicked * M 2003-04 2,718 My Fair Lady M 1955-56 2,717 Avenue Q M 2003-04 2,534 The Producers M 2000-01 2,502 Hairspray M 2002-03 2,462 Cabaret M-R 1997-98 2,378 Annie M 1976-77 2,377 Man of La Mancha M 1965-66 2,328
Abie's Irish Rose P 1921-22 2,327 Oklahoma!
With no fresh ideas at hand, librettists Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice (who paired for "Jersey Boys") hit upon a plot that was hoary back when it was used in 1922 for Broadway's long-running "
Abie's Irish Rose": Find the daughter a suitor and set the severely mismatched in-laws battling.
Still hoping to establish a theatre of his own, Chekhov found his way to California, taught classes there and from 1944 to 1954 appeared in 10 films: Song of Russia; In Our Time; Spellbound; Cross My Heart; Spectre of the Rose;
Abie's Irish Rose; Texas, Brooklyn, and Heaven; Invitation; Holiday for Sinners and Rhapsody.