Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ZORBA. Producer-Director Hal Prince has turned out a non-Jewish version of Fiddler on the Roof. But this time Herschel Bernardi merely inhabits the hero's role rather than being possessed by it, and Maria Karnilova never quite provides the mixture of girlish coquetry and faded carnality that the role of Bouboulina requires. The music sounds as if it is being piped in by Muzak, the lyrics are insipid, the dances are any old folk...
Someone forgot to tell Producer-Director Harold Prince that Zorba isn't Jewish. Prince could not resist the temptation to try to fashion a sequel to his own Fiddler on the Roof, thinly camouflaged with a Greek accent. The resulting musical play is sleek, professional and synthetic, a brassy bit of Broad-wayana that is as far from the Mediterranean basin as is Shubert Alley...
...Vegas. Owners are finding that, though gross gambling revenues are still growing (up 14.3% last year), their profits are being cut by what Sarno calls "the spiraling cost of customer attraction." A top entertainer like Frank Sinatra can command $100,000 a week; a production of Fiddler on the Roof costs $70,000 a week...
Having filled the press box, the Harvard Sports Information Office started seating the visiting dignitaries on the press box roof until the Building and Grounds department forced it to stop for safety reasons...
...They talk about political power but it is an apolitical movement. You can't paint your living room by standing on the roof," he said at a speech in Emerson Hall. He admitted that politics has failed to solve the problems of the black people, but "not in every issue." He did not mention the issues in which politics had succeeded...