[wally_bert]

I’ve learned to really like the movie version that runs on TCM.

The “tradition” song especially.

[nopardons]

Many long years ago, long before there was a PBS, Channel 13, in NYC, had a show that did famous plays with great Broadway actors and actresses in them.

I'd never read anything by Sholem Aleichem, let alone even heard of him, so I watched with a completely unbiased mind.

The play was taken from his Tevye stories, which is what Fiddler, the Broadway musical was taken from.

I HATED IT!

That being said, I have tried to watch the movie, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF on TCM and I just can't warm to it; not the play nor the music. Part of the reason re the latter, is because some of the songs from that show were played to death, when it was playing on Broadway.