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During the three months in 1993 when she was sleeping with her English professor, Lisa Topol lost 18 pounds. She lost interest in her classes at the University of Pennsylvania, lost her reputation as an honor student and wondered if she was losing her mind. If she tried to break up, she thought, he could ruin her academic career. Then she made some phone calls and learned a bit more about the professor she had come to view as a predator. In June she will tell her story in federal court, but even before a verdict is rendered, the case...
...different-looking version last fall that Lincoln Center pledged to bring to Broadway but then reneged on. With less than three months left in the season, Fran and Barry Weissler, who have won three Tony Awards by mounting star-package revivals like 1990's Fiddler on the Roof with Topol, decided to make this no-stars gay story their first new musical. Says Fran, a grandmother: "This was a big departure for us, our usual investors and our usual audiences. Half of the money in the show ((it cost $950,000 to mount, about a fifth of the average musical...
...satellite troupes from Los Angeles to London. In the new, eighth edition, everyone shines. Susanne Blakeslee zings Julie Andrews' singing on the Tony Awards in I Couldn't Hit That Note. Mary Denise Bentley skewers Tyne Daly's performance as Mama Rose in Gypsy. Herndon Lackey is a melodramatizing Topol in Fiddler on the Roof, and Jeff Lyons is Jackie Mason -- but more...
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. The years have only burnished the virtues (and rendered quaint the occasional silliness) of this portrait of Russian village life at the turn of the century. The Israeli actor Topol, who starred in the film, headlines a meticulously crafted and dazzlingly danced revival, on Broadway after a national tour...
...movement. One clever touch is Belgrader's decision to spice the 18th Century satire with modern references and expletives; they serve both to shock the audience into attention and remind us that the script has meaning for contemporary society. Another is Shalhoub's coughing jag, with its reference to Topol's song "If I Were a Rich Man" from Fiddler on the Roof...