The Broadway musical as we know it would not exist without the generations of Jewish songwriters who brought not only their talent but their heritage and perspective to their art. In A Place for Us: A Celebration of Jewish Broadway, award-winning musical storyteller Ari Axelrod has gathered a collection of this cherished work through which he finds healing and a sense of home and community, echoing the refuge generations of Jews have sought in the American theater. Axelrod’s debut studio album adapts the one-man show he’s performed to raves across the country (“Genuinely one of the finest shows I’ve ever seen” —BroadwayWorld), expanding upon his deep connection to this material and his own Jewish heritage. Weaving together a century of songs from the likes of Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Stephen Sondheim, Mary Rodgers, Jason Robert Brown, Adam Guettel and many others – including Cole Porter, a gentile who said the key to a hit was in writing a “Jewish tune” – Axelrod creates a stunning tapestry of the Jewish American experience, from immigration and assimilation to activism, faith and family, revealing in exquisite detail how Jewish liturgy and culture were transformed into a popular music beloved by all.