| Dear Worthy Editor | |
|---|---|
 Cover art of the original "pre-Broadway" concert staging of Dear Worthy Editor[1] | |
| Music | Alan Menken |
| Lyrics | Alan Menken |
| Book | Judy Menken |
| Setting | American, early 1900s |
| Basis | Bintel Brief column from Jewish Daily Forward |
| Premiere | c. 1974: New Rochelle, New York |
Dear Worthy Editor: Letters to The Daily Forward (originally called A Bintel Brief) is a 1960s[2] or c. 1974[3] musical and one of the early works by Alan Menken. He collaborated with his mother to develop the musical, adapted from the Bintel Brief letters-to-the-editor published by the Yiddish-language newspaper Jewish Daily Forward.[4][5] While Menken had written musicals prior to this, it became his first work to achieve a level of success, being performed many times in the Jewish-American circuit.
- ^ Alan Menken & Kristen Anderson-Lopez. Dramatists Guild Foundation. December 6, 2016. Retrieved June 21, 2018 – via YouTube.
- ^ Leon, Masha (September 11, 2008). "Songwriters Hall of Fame Honors Composer". The Forward. Retrieved June 21, 2018.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:1was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Berger, Joseph (July 13, 1997). "His Tunes Make Disney's World Go Round". The New York Times.
- ^ Whitfield, Stephen J. (2001). In Search of American Jewish Culture. UPNE. p. 86. ISBN 9781584651710.