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...mimic than she is an actress. She can do instant impersonations of people and moods, but except for her 1962 performance in Oh Dad, Poor Dad, she has never developed a character. In the past, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick have written beautifully articulated scores for Fiorello! and Fiddler on the Roof. In The Apple Tree, the score, like the show, lacks everything, including earplugs...
...first musical directed by Mike Nichols; it is a triple bill loosely lifted from the writings of Mark Twain, Frank Stockton and Cartoonist Jules Feiffer. The unifying forces are the theme "man, woman and the devil," and score and lyrics by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, who did Fiddler on the Roof. A final derivative musical is Cabaret, which in earlier incarnations was Christopher Isherwood's The Berlin Stories and the John van Druten drama I Am a Camera. With Jill Haworth in the old Julie Harris role, it is already one of the season's hottest tickets...
...concert halls. He is board of directors, chaplain, negotiator, booking agent and benevolent, all-round dictator all at once. In the band room the players jokingly refer to him as their "Jimmy Hoffa." Haftel, who draws a salary of only $70 a month more than the lowest-paid fiddler, has turned down several offers from major U.S. orchestras. His duty, as he sees it, is to remain as the orchestra's shamas (synagogue caretaker), keeper of the flame until Mr. Right comes along...
...music likewise mirrors Britko's thoughts. When he looks up at a church steeple, "Gloria in Excelsis Deo" briefly enters the soundtrack. A bittersweet fiddler's tune of his dilemma, while a full choral anthem accompanies his moment of decision. Finally, the cheerful and ubiquitous band music characterizes the optimism about human nature which Kadar and Klos insist on maintaining through the entire film...
...that he himself has found no easy remedy: "I try looking in the mirror and saying 'You're the greatest cellist in the world.' " But alas, he adds sadly, "I don't believe me." Or he will tell of the evening he dined with Amateur Fiddler Albert Einstein...