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...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...
...York's Upper West Side or Lincoln Center or Bartley's-any place where intellectuals gather-and pretty soon you will overhear a crowd of animated types talking about those great forgone musicals. You know, shows like the late Mare Blitzstein's Juno (1959) or Bock and Harnick's She Loves Me (1963) or Stephen Sondheim's Anyone Can Whistle (1964). (Well maybe you don't know, in which case you may very well be hanging around with the wrong crowd...
GREENPORT, L.I. Summer Playhouse. Adam and Eve face newlywed adjustments, a warrior must choose between his love and a tiger, and a chimney sweep is transformed into a movie star in The Apple Tree, three episodes with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, the team who did Fiddler on the Roof...
Fiddler on the Roof--Now in its fifth year and still in great shape, this powerful Stein-Bock-Harnick-Robbins drama weaves Sholom Aleichem's "Tevye" stories into a panoramic view of the breakdown of tradition in Russian-Jewish society. Harry Goz is the present Tevye, and well up to snuff. At the MAJESTIC, W. 44th...
...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Music and lyrics by the Fiddlers on the Roof, Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, add new dimensions to Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost, featuring Sir Michael Redgrave, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Natalie Schafer. Tippy Walker and Peter (Herman of the Hermits) Noone...