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...Eternal Road (words & music by Franz Werfel & Kurt Weill; Meyer W. Weisgal, Crosby Gaige, and Max Reinhardt, producers) is perhaps the first indoor theatrical event ever to justify the cinematic adjectives Stupendous and Colossal. Everything about this unprecedented superspectacle is large scale. It was more than three years in the making. Its premiere, postponed ten times, finally took place one year and 15 days late. The heart-breaking difficulties which beset its promoters were scarcely less impressive than those of the Jewish people whose historic sorrows the pageant so magnificently pictures...
...fall of 1933 Meyer Weisgal, "a Zionist since his first shave" and one-time secretary of the Zionist Organization of America, sought out Director Reinhardt in Paris and proposed to produce in Manhattan a Biblical superspectacle "that would also constitute a stirring commentary on current events." It would provide a symbol of solidarity around which to rally world Jewry to the defense of fellow Jews suffering the lash of Nazi persecution. Director Reinhardt, who had his huge indoor Miracle ten years behind him, his huge outdoor A Midsummer Night's Dream one year in the future, agreed to take...
...Meyer Weisgal, who had already put on in Chicago, Manhattan, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Detroit a pageant called The Romance of a People to raise funds for Jewish charity, persisted. He eventually got another $213,000 and Eternal Road rehearsals resumed Nov. 29, 1936. There were three more postponements before the greatest night in a generation for New York's Jews at last arrived. With Sara Delano Roosevelt representing the Gentiles and Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise at the head of his flock, the lights went down...