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Louisiana fiddler Dewey Balfa takes the stage at Paine Hall tomorrow night for an fun-filled evening of good Cajun music. Balfa is well-known throughout the South for his mastery of the art of the violin...
What is this, Fiddler on the Roof?: Curran finished Friday's game with career highs in points (16) and rebounds (five...
...other hand, the whimsical Siamese retelling of Uncle Tom's Cabin from The King and I seems stately and slow. The Russian peasant life in Fiddler on the Roof looks even cornier and campier when deprived of the original's glints of fear and oppression. A protracted, wordless street scene among customers of a speakeasy is unlikely to bring back Billion Dollar Baby. And a danced duet from High Button Shoes, cast with vigorous young performers, defeats the whole sentimental purpose of the original number: to demonstrate that a married couple well along into middle age can not only remain...
...problematic is Robert + La Fosse, a New York City Ballet star who moves gloriously but whose facial expression seems limited to a scowl and a simpering grin. Jason Alexander, who serves as narrator and plays seven characters, has wit, charm and the requisite razzmatazz -- his parts in Forum and Fiddler were played by Zero Mostel -- but lacks the star attribute of effortless ease. Yet if Robbins has not unearthed the treasure trove that many hoped for, he still offers a richly illuminated manuscript from the book of Broadway's beloved past...
From 1944 to 1964, Jerome Robbins staged such hits as On the Town, West Side Story, Gypsy and Fiddler on the Roof. Then the dance master deserted Broadway for another passion, the ballet. Now he returns with an anthology of dazzling numbers from his most famous shows. His producers hope that Broadway's most expensive ticket will also be its hottest...