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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Incredibly, this musical discovers high theater and infectious gaiety in the funny-sad story of Tevye and his five daughters in a Russian village prior to the 1905 revolution. Zero Mostel is a million rubles worth...
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF strays far from Broadway to record the gentle joys and occasional sorrows of a Jewish community in a Russian town in 1905. In his finest performance to date, Zero Mostel gives this musical an unfaltering heartbeat...
Fiddler on the Roof. Zero Mostel is a bundle of Zero Mostels, and a fresh one comes to view with each new performance. He can dance like a bear, sing like a frog and outstare an owl. A rhinoceros cannot readily distinguish Mostel from a rhinoceros. What links all of Mostel's roles is his gift for reaching the heart of a character and sympathetically synchronizing every heartbeat in the house with his. This gift is greatly evident in Fiddler on the Roof, a pleasantly nostalgic musical of Jewish community life in a tiny Russian village just prior...
...Mostel plays Tevye, a poor dairyman by trade and a Jewish cracker-barrel philosopher by bent. Tevye has five unmarried daughters on his hands, a strident wife (Maria Karnilova) at his elbow, and God's voice in his inner ear. He quivers before his wife and quips with his God. He plans to arrange his daughters' marriages in the time-honored way. They plead love. "Tradition," thunders Tevye, stabbing the air with an irate prophet's forefinger and then lowering his hand like a falling leaf, in wry self-mockery. The eldest daughter marries a tailor without...
...approved, but he and Watson become song-and-dance men in the long-postponed Baker Street, now Broadway-bound with Fritz Weaver under the deerstalker. Fiddler on the Roof is nominally based on Sholom Aleichem's moralistic tales of Jewish life in pre-revolutionary Russia, with irrepressible Zero Mostel in the leading role. The season's most technically ambitious adaptation will be a Broadway version of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, with book and lyrics by Frank Lacey, who was one of the word men behind The Music...