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face=Arial>Broadway's underwhelming 'Fiddler' falls short of
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT face=Arial>A new revival of "Fiddler on the
Roof."<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sounds crazy,
no?</FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial>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.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>Today,
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">nations still turn their backs on their own
people and set entire villages adrift.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So this much-beloved musical <SPAN
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</SPAN>the dairyman Tevye,<SPAN
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his family and </SPAN>the other Jews who populate and are then exiled from the
underfed and overworked Russian shtetl of Anatevka <SPAN
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</SPAN>resonates.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT face=Arial>On the other hand, this is the
fifth Broadway revival of "Fiddler." <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does the world need another?
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more of this review, go to </SPAN><SPAN
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