The Jews Write Christmas Again

Published: Dec. 11, 2012, noon

b'That Jews wrote many of the most beloved Christmas songs in the holiday songbook is no secret. \\u201cWhite Christmas,\\u201d by Irving Berlin, is perhaps the best-known example, but there are countless others, including \\u201cRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer\\u201d (Johnny Marks), and \\u201cLet It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow\\u201d (lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne). At age 27, Benj Pasek is now in a position to add his name to that illustrious lineage. Pasek is one half of the songwriting team Pasek & Paul. The two met as undergraduates at the University of Michigan, where they wrote their first production, a song cycle about twenty-something confusion called Edges. Several co-productions later, they were brought on to write the music and lyrics to A Christmas Story, adapted from the 1983...


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