From the songs of George Gershwin to the works of composer Charles Strouse (“Annie,” “Bye Bye Birdie”), learn how the music and traditions of Judaism have inspired some of our greatest musicals. For example, did you know that Sheldon Harnick’s “Fiddler on the Roof” influenced Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “In The Heights”? Or that key melodies in "Porgy and Bess" were pulled directly from a Jewish blessing?

This illuminating and meaningful hour-long Salon in partnership with National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene is led by Meredith Ganzman, who has interviewed many Jewish musical theater icons in her work as the former lead arts and entertainment reporter for The Jewish Channel.