Word: fiddlers
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THEATER: A fresh Fiddler...
Brookline’s Coolidge Corner theater normally plays the hippest in independent cinema. Last Sunday, however, it played the hippest in Yiddish-folk-tale based musicals, hosting a sold-out Fiddler On the Roof sing-a-long as part of Boston’s 15th annual Jewish Film Festival...
Perhaps the first hint that this was not just another night at the limited-release-artsy movies was the crowd of middle-aged movie goers anxiously hovering outside the theater hoping to score tickets from scalpers. In addition, a fiddler woman, dressed shtetl-chic, serenaded the long line of people waiting to see the show...
...disco props didn’t totally interfere with the sentimental schlock that is Fiddler for some, especially during the love song “Miracle of Miracles?...
...Chagall was suburbia's favorite genius. He offered modernism without tears, without the headaches of Cubism or the thin air of abstraction. For middle-class Jews, he was also the chronicler of the world of their fathers, the poet of that lost, enchanted universe. By the mid-1960s, when Fiddler on the Roof took its title from one of Chagall's best-known motifs, his popular reputation was at its peak. But in the eyes of an art world that had always been a little unconvinced by him, he had become the middlebrow modernist, the go-to guy for shopworn...