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...opening night at Jaffa's Alhambra Theater, practically everyone who was anyone in Israel was there: Premier Lev! Eshkol, Foreign Minister Golda Meir and the rest of the nation's official mishpachah. And when the curtain came down on the Hebrew adaptation of Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof, who should rush backstage but the Premier himself. Said Eshkol after toasting the cast: "Nu, nu, it's not exactly Sholom Aleichem, but I have never enjoyed an evening in the theater so much in my life." Israel's most formidable critic, Chaim Gamzu-whose last...
...that too many U.S. Jews are indolent and unschooled in their spiritual heritage, Katz admitted; nonetheless, the impact of Judaism on U.S. culture is so prevalent that "it is a popular pastime to probe the world through Jewish lenses," typically in a musical like Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof. For proof of Jew ish vitality throughout the world, he cited B'nai B'rith's 26% gain in operating finances since the last convention, and the presence of its educational Hillel Foundation on 253 campuses, with 268 more schools already in line applying for programs...
...power of a big name star. But occasionally a show will collapse without even beginning a run. A recent Broadway disaster was the musical Kelly, which opened and closed last January and cost its backers over $650,000. Most Broadway producers now search for "first-class" musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof and Luv, which blend small doses of serious concern with large amounts of enjoyable humor and song...
...FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Zero Mostel, a virtuoso of the mind's merriment and the heart's grief, dominates this wistfully nostalgic musical about a small Jewish community in the Russia...
...FIDDLER ON THE ROOF strays a world away from Broadway to capture the happiness and the hurt, the folkish airs and graces of a small Jewish community in a Russian town in 1905. Zero Mostel, an intuitive and masterly recorder of the mind's merriment and the soul's grief, gives this musical an unfaltering heartbeat. A male wedding dance with empty wine bottles perched in men's hats is a tingling high spot...