Word: fiddlers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...early November. Last year's Grant-in-Aid musicals, George M! and Godspell both received top-notch notices, so A Funny Thing... might be worth checking out. But if you want to see Zero Mostel, go into Boston instead--he'll be starring in a "new" version of Fiddler on the Roof, which is stopping here on its way to Broadway...
...Creation to Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac) and Luke 1-2 (the Annunciation, the Nativity and Jesus' youth). They were filmed in the sere landscape of the Holy Land and neighboring areas, using largely unknown actors. One exception: Topol, the Israeli star of Hollywood's Fiddler on the Roof, who portrays Abraham...
...children of labor leaders, of policemen, of county officials and of doctors (including one whose teen-age son's heart, corneas and kidneys were used in transplant operations soon afterward). The boys and girls had gone through junior high school together. They had all performed together in Fiddler on the Roof earlier this year. Only three weeks from graduation, many of them had gone to the prom the previous Saturday. Now their friends dazedly shuffled through Yuba City High School, pausing disconsolately from time to time at the principal's window to read the daily notice that listed...
...Fiddler on the Hoof...
Ashmedai is the story of a demon who corrupts an idyllic kingdom that has been at peace for 500 years. The work is really more a theater piece than an opera. The evening owes its success mainly to Hal Prince's (West Side Story, Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof) making his debut as an operatic director. He is a master of illusion. There is a scene of villagers applauding a fire-eater that visually recalls Bruegel, a ridiculous pas de deux between the queen and a giant rooster. In a final Princely touch, darkness envelops the opera house. Then...