Fiddler on the Roof Previews- Page 12

[ljay889]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 10:14am

Oh! So Hamilton22 is the summer camp kid? The other child who terrorized these boards. 

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 10:16am

Yes, ljay. It has been confirmed. Took long enough. Surprised more posters didn't catch on more quickly... 

[Hamilton22]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 10:17am

I'm neither.

 

And Liza, I'll be seeing both acts of Fiddler

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 10:18am

Missed you around these parts, BG. I have to commend you for keeping a low profile... until you went creating a thread where you admitted that you routinely break the law and engage in immoral, unethical activity. Did you really need to do that?! 

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 10:19am

Hamilton22 said: "I'm neither.

And Liza, I'll be seeing both acts of Fiddler

"

You finally cashed that check, huh?

 

[Kad]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 10:44am

"If I'm spending 157..."

...but are you?

[nasty_khakis]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 12:21pm

With my rush ticket this morning I got a slip of paper saying there was a mandatory bag check for $2. I have a small tote that always fits under theatre seats without an issue. Will they make me check it? That seems a little ridiculous since it's the size of an average purse.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 12:28pm

I brought in my satchel no problem 

[Musical Master]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 6:40pm

I guess if the stagehands were dressed in costume I guess this wouldn't be an issue about the scenery/props being moved manually (which is what Sher does often in his productions sometimes).

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 6:41pm

Actors move some of the scenery here, which makes the stagehands moving virtually ONLY that fence even weirder. Are there union rules about putting actual stagehands in costume?

[Musical Master]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 6:44pm

Oh, so the actors DO move the scenery just like what the cast members sometimes did in Bartlett Sher's production of South Pacific, okay sorry about that.

[Tag]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 7:41pm

Are there union rules about putting actual stagehands in costume?

Of course.  There is an extra fee.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 9:04pm

HOW ARE THE ACCENTS?????

[Musical Master]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 9:08pm

I want to ask to the one's who have said that Michael Yeargan's set design is too sparse. Was Fiddler on the Roof meant to have good looking/detailed sets despite the musical being set in a small Russian village in 1905?

Updated On: 11/24/15 at 09:08 PM

[GreenSharpie]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 9:30pm

Has Whizzer posted a review yet?

[Musical Master]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 9:31pm

Not yet.

[WhizzerMarvin]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 9:48pm

I feel like my life has been a little crazy this past week and have not been on my game. I was at Fiddler last night, and you would think with the late start time that it would be impossible to be late to the show, but I defied the odds and missed the first twenty minutes of the show. 

 

I don't feel right commenting on a production that I didn't see in its entirety, but I do plan on going back tomorrow night and catching the full show this time. I will briefly say that what I saw I adored and will share more detailed thoughts (hopefully) tomorrow. 

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 9:50pm

Primed to love this show when we see it this Saturday night. I've loved the design/staging approaches that Sher/ Yeargan have taken with some of their shows (Piazza... South Pacific); I've been disappointed in the minimalist approach they've taken with others: (King & I, Bridges...). I'll go with an open mind.

 

But Musical Master asks "Was Fiddler on the Roof meant to have good looking/detailed sets despite the musical being set in a small Russian village in 1905?" The original Boris Aronson designs are well documented (there are amazing sketches and pictures in Frank Rich's Aronson book), and run the gamut from lush and stage-filling (the interior of Tevye's house, the Tavern for L'Chayim and the entire Wedding sequence) to the mundane and frankly threadbare (the traveler curtains in one for Tevye's back yard or the street scene for "I Just Heard". 

 

I first saw the B'way show in 1967 when I was 11, and then a revival with Zero in the late 70's I believe. Those relatively empty stage pictures were filled to the brim with movement and emotion and just enough detail to let your imagination fill in the rest. And most glorious of all was that huge turntable (with a smaller turntable set within it) around which the entire staging was conceived. You kept returning to the circle in scene after scene. Tevye's house spun on it, the Tavern's back wall spun around from Interior to Exterior, and best of all, the villagers said their goodbyes by slowly stepping OFF the turntable one by one as Anatevka ceased to be in the show's final beats. Can you do the show without that turntable as I understand Sher and Yeargan have decided to do? I'll find out this Saturday night...

 

[Hamilton22]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 9:55pm

"Primed to love this show when we see it this Saturday night. I've loved the design/staging approaches that Sher/ Yeargan have taken with some of their shows (Piazza... South Pacific); I've been disappointed in the minimalist approach they've taken with others: (King & I, Bridges...). I'll go with an open mind"

 

Well from the reports, it sounds like Fiddler has the most minimal set of them all, so prepare to be disappointed with it.

Updated On: 11/24/15 at 09:55 PM

[Musical Master]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 10:15pm

You are correct Someone in a Tree2, Boris Aronson's designs on Fiddler on the Roof and others are nothing short of the great imaginative use of simple and drop dead lavish is an amazing talent that cannot be compared. The world truly lost something special when Aronson passed away. I for one really loved what Michael Yeargan did with The King and I, and if his work in Fiddler disappoints, then oh well; at least he'll still be a wonderful set designer to me no matter what.

[OMG2]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 11:02pm

Finally, the maven arrives! Heard your opinion of FOTR is the most important.

please take notice of Motel the tailor and Jessica Hecht.

seening it soon.last time with Alfred Molina.

 Blizzard caused us to miss 2nd act. Had to leave. Loved Zero Mostel. Enjoy 

[OMG2]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 11:02pm

Finally, the maven arrives! Heard your opinion of FOTR is the most important.

please take notice of Motel the tailor and Jessica Hecht.

seening it soon.last time with Alfred Molina.

 Blizzard caused us to miss 2nd act. Had to leave. Loved Zero Mostel. Enjoy 

[OMG2]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 11:14pm

This is not a reply, 

I wonder if anyone considered MANDY PATINKIN? He would be a awesome Tevya.

love him in Yentl 

[Broadway kid 2]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 11:56pm

How long will this run

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 11/25/15 at 12:51am

Patinkin would be wonderful, but I'm not sure if he would read too old. In costume and make up he may look perfect.