Jarethan said: "Funny, 5- 10 minutes ago I posted in another subjectthat Fiddler was a humongous ,hit in its day and dethroned HD as the most in-demand show. I was wondering what Dollypop's view would be on that statement as I typed it. Hope he is okay...already miss Mr. Roxy's presence."
I don't know what Dollypop will say, but it was well-known in the early 1970s that Hal Prince poured money into FIDDLER to keep it open longer than DOLLY, and misreported grosses to VARIETY to cover up what he was doing. (To be clear, I have no inside info on this; it was covered in the media at the time.)
So while FIDDLER may have appeared to "dethrone" DOLLY, whether it actually did so was very much in doubt. (Regardless, both shows were massive hits, of course.)