Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#1Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 10:46pm
I saw this last year and absolutely loved it and it is one of my favorite shows! But I thought two things were kinda odd.
#1) What was the deal with the little boy following the fiddler?
and #2) What was the deal with the sisters giving each other sponge baths?
I thought both were...kinda weird.
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Updated On: 12/18/06 at 10:46 PM
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#2re: Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 10:49pmOnly David Leveaux knows for sure.
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#2re: Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 10:50pm
I didn't get the sponge bath at all.
I took the little boy following him as the tradition continuing over the sea and throughout it all.
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Yankeefan007
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#3re: Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 10:51pmLeveaux likes his incest imagery. He used it in Glass Menagerie, too.
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#4re: Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 11:54pmI'd be perfectly happy if Mr. Leveaux never made his way back to broadway again.
NathanLaneStalker
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#5re: Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/24/06 at 9:17pm
What did he do in Glass Menagerie?
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#6re: Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/24/06 at 9:29pmI liked this revival. Leveaux made Fiddler watchable. and I especially enjoyed the new song.
Yankeefan007
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#7re: Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/24/06 at 9:30pm
He had Tom and Laura fall asleep on top of each other....and that was the least of it.
Updated On: 12/24/06 at 09:30 PM
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#8re: Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/24/06 at 9:48pmThat's not incset. That's called being siblings. I'm still suprised Fiddler never toured. I really wanted to see this production. I'm still suprised it ran for as long as it did.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/3/06
#9re: Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/24/06 at 10:18pm
that revival was the worst; too long too boring esp. harvey and rosey that were TOTALLY MISCAST
i hated it!
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#10re: Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/24/06 at 10:28pm
The whole idea of the little boy following the fiddler was to show the old wise man teaching the young. Its a very big thing in jewish coulture sp? that the boys gain the wisdom of the older men.
Harvey was great in the show. I wanted to see it again before it closed but I didn't wanna see it with rosie.
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#11re: Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/24/06 at 10:41pmI thought the revival was magnificant! Molina and Graff were wonderful! I saw it in previews with barbara barrie, but still, i loved every moment. and I agree with Cats. he made Fiddler watchable. not an easy thing to do
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#12re: Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/24/06 at 11:32pmLoved Molina - hated the costumes - more like shabby chic than true poverty clothing.
#13re: Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/24/06 at 11:36pmlisten to the Forbidden Broadway: SVU version its great!
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RentBoy86
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#14re: Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/24/06 at 11:59pm
I think Fiddler's a very solid show.
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#15re: Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/25/06 at 12:05am
I thought it was a brilliant production...in some ways I'd have liked it to be more "lively" (for lack of a better word), but I still found it to be wonderfully heart breaking and all together different (in a good way) from traditional stagings...
The Sabbath Prayer was incredible to see.
The Little Boy is what was said above...he's pretty much summarized at the end of the show when the fiddler "passes on" the traditions as the sun set.
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NathanLaneStalker
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#16re: Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/25/06 at 2:19am
I LOVED the production. I saw it with Harvey and Rosie and I though they were both great!
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#17re: Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/25/06 at 12:17pmI generally don't like Leveaux's work, but "Fiddler..." is so well-written and so universal that it survived beautifully despite Leveaux's best efforts to shoot it down in mid-flight. And I loved Harvey Fierstein in the role. One of those "what were they thinking" moments that are actually inspired casting decisions. Much like Brooke Shields in "Wonderful Town," another brilliant performance that matched, if not bettered, the original.
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#18re: Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/25/06 at 1:42pmI was sitting in the 18th row centre when I saw FIDDLER with Harvey, and I was enchanted from the get-go. The hanging lamps, the trees, the corner orchestra -- all of it was a lovely evocation of rural Russia that managed to escape the Prince/Aaronson tradition. And Harvey was a pure delight, bang on perfect as Tevye. Having a restrained colour palatte until the Fruma Sarah sequence was brilliant. My sole qualm was that some of the scenic design didnt seem to take into consideration the sightlines (The Act One finale, for example), but the show was well worth the money.
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#19re: Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/25/06 at 1:57pmThere was nudity in the Fiddler revival? Or did they just sponge each other?
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TheatreDiva90016
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#20re: Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/25/06 at 2:09pmIt wasn't sponging so much as finger banging....
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NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#21re: Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/25/06 at 2:29pm^ What he said. haha.
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Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#22re: Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/25/06 at 3:03pmSeriously?
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NathanLaneStalker
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#23re: Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/25/06 at 3:05pm
No. haha. They just sponged each other during "Matchmaker".
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Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#24re: Question about the recent Fiddler revival?
Posted: 12/25/06 at 3:07pmSo it's just TheatreDiva being TheatreDiva?
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