"Fiddler on the Roof," returning to Broadway

Monterey Hearald ^ | March 7, 2014 | Mark Kennedy, AP

[zerosix]

Okay, I can immediately come up with some mandatory script changes for this classic story: Rabbi is a woman; Golde is a feminist and one of the five daughters (I don't remember her name in the play) instead of marrying a Russian of Russian Orthodox faith, is actually a lesbian who runs off with her lesbian lover.

Perhaps good old Tevye realizes he is actually bisexual who's had a "thing" for the butcher!

Anyone care to comment on script changes besides me?

[virgil]

I think her name was Havila.

[TBP]

Excellent news!

[latina4dubya]

i am going on record as saying there will be no script changes... there better not be! i would love to see this on Broadway!

Harvey Fierstein as Tevye

i like him as an actor... i never would have imagined her in this role :)

[zerosix]

Thanks for the clarification.

I some what recently saw the movie version starring Topol and realized how much Tevye's "tradition" has been lost.

Surely a play that would "pack the house" on Broadway, must surely feature nudity, gay/lesbian/transgender and greed, perhaps a murder or two tossed in for good measure, to sell even one ticket to today's "self-actualized" culture.

[a fool in paradise]

Now with twerking!

[billorites]

All day long I'd diddle diddle bum.
If I were a wealthy man!

[SevenofNine]

Tradition

Tradition

[blueunicorn6]

I am not an expert on Broadway Musicals. It doesn’t seem like there has been a big, hit musical for awhile. Maybe you have hit on the reason why. Our art isn’t about entertaining people. It has become a means for liberals to rub everyone’s nose in their dysfunctional views.

[ArtDodger]

Zero Mostel.. tough to beat!

[Dagnabitt]

The timeless tale, set in Czarist Russia, of a tradition-bound Jewish man living with AIDS.

[zerosix]

I'm thinking you've hit the nail on the head!

Each and every "new" Broadway hit has to contain liberal culture views and the general audience just won't swallow it - enough to make it a smashing success!

[Homer1]

Is the young teacher with his “new ides” a communist?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Hey

[Revolting cat!]

Who’s gonna play Zorba?

[Marguerite]

The best “Fiddler on the Roof” ever

http://youtu.be/RBHZFYpQ6nc

[Borges]

Chill out. It was revived recently without any major changes. Bartlett Sher did a great South Pacific revival that was very faithful to the original.

[Slings and Arrows]

The villagers who stage a pogrom at the wedding will be replaced by Tea Partiers.

[Mike Darancette]

Zero Mostel.. tough to beat!

Chaim Topol was pretty good.

[Borges]

The biggest hits these days are jukebox musicals...built on a catalog of songs the audience already knows (Rock of Ages, Jersey Boys, Mamma Mia). The few original hits of recent years would be Wicked and The Book of Mormon...both still running.