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...thought. "Like the time these two guys in the cubicle next to me kept beating out those old-fashioned Jewish tunes. Man, I knew for sure they weren't going anywhere." The two guys were Bock and Harnick, and the Jewish songs eventually evolved into Fiddler on the Roof. Diamond doesn't make that kind of mistake any more...
...misplaced. Technically he is jarring; his voice is often so laryngitic that one expects a stage manager to step forward to announce the appearance of Mr. Harris' understudy. When his speeches are unclouded, Harris endlessly "beseeches" always "in the name of God" even more often than Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. But he struts with a histrionic swagger entirely out of keeping with Cromwell's Christian zeal...
...Rothschilds is not a top-drawer musical. It is not exciting or innovative, but it is a pleasant way to while away an evening. The Sheldon Harnick-Jerry Bock score neatly dovetails into the book, but it lacks any single rousing number like "Tradition" from their Fiddler on the Roof score. Hal Linden is warmly convincing as a Jewish Joe Kennedy. Except for Nathan Rothschild (Paul Hecht), the brother in London, the sons are not individually distinct. Absent from the stage of the Lunt-Fontanne Theater are two favorite Rothschilds-Mouton and Lafite...
...mammoth job," says Dewey. "We have them read." Already scheduled, for production or for imminent release, are a film by Novelist Howard Fast called The Hessian, set during the American Revolution "but with contemporary overtones," an Israeli comedy called Lupo, which is intended to "scoop" Fiddler on the Roof, and a movie about demolition derbies called Jump...
...best. He appears to believe that the play is about the brotherhood of man, and the production has been so ethnicized that it makes Beckett into a kind of emcee for United Nations Day. Leland Moss' Estragon seems to have been imported from a Catskills road company of Fiddler on the Roof. His gestures might have been modelled on Menasha Skulnik's, his lines threaten to slip into Yiddish, and the "nu's" and the "oy's" and the Diaspora world-weariness almost crown Beckett the prince of pushcart playwrights...