[NEohioPAL] Review of Broadway's "Fiddler on the Roof"

[Bob Abelman via NEohioPAL]

Broadway's underwhelming 'Fiddler' falls short of expectations



Bob Abelman

Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal

Member, International Association of Theatre Critics

  

A new revival of "Fiddler on the Roof."  Sounds crazy, no?



On the one hand, the original Broadway production – which ran for a then-unprecedented 3,242 performances and earned nine Tony Awards – premiered 50 years ago.  



Today, nations still turn their backs on their own people and set entire villages adrift.  So this much-beloved musical about the dairyman Tevye, his family and the other Jews who populate and are then exiled from the underfed and overworked Russian shtetl of Anatevka still resonates.



On the other hand, this is the fifth Broadway revival of "Fiddler."  Does the world need another? 



For more of this review, go to www.clevelandjewishnews.com/columnists/.  
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