{"id":55552,"date":"2020-06-17T07:50:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T13:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=55552"},"modified":"2020-06-17T07:50:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T13:50:47","slug":"some-believe-fiddler-on-the-roof-was-staged-somewhere-in-the-world-every-day-since-the-60s-covid-19-ended-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/some-believe-fiddler-on-the-roof-was-staged-somewhere-in-the-world-every-day-since-the-60s-covid-19-ended-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Some believe \u2018Fiddler on the Roof\u2019 was staged somewhere in the world every day since the \u201960s. COVID-19 ended that."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By STEPHEN SILVER<\/p>\n<p>(JTA) \u2014 The coronavirus pandemic has done something that no war, natural disaster or other calamity has been able to do for more than 50 years: It\u2019s put a stop to stage performances of \u201c<em>Fiddler on the Roof<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55554\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-2-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55554\" class=\"wp-image-55554 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-2-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 20: Theatre Marquee for the Broadway Opening Night Performance of 'Fiddler On The Roof' starring Danny Burstein at the Broadway Theatre on December 20, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Walter McBride\/WireImage)\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-2-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-2-1024x676.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-2-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-2-1536x1013.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-2-2048x1351.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55554\" class=\"wp-image-55554 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-2-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 20: Theatre Marquee for the Broadway Opening Night Performance of 'Fiddler On The Roof' starring Danny Burstein at the Broadway Theatre on December 20, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Walter McBride\/WireImage)\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-2-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-2-1024x676.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-2-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-2-1536x1013.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-2-2048x1351.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-55554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The marquee of the Broadway Theater in New York City advertises &#8220;Fiddler on the Roof,&#8221; Dec. 20, 2015. (Walter McBride\/WireImage\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The current North American tour of \u201c<em>Fiddler<\/em>\u201d was halted on March 13, a day before Broadway went dark. The last show of that tour before the cancellation, in a wild coincidence, was at Detroit\u2019s Fisher Theatre, the very same venue where \u201c<em>Fiddler<\/em>\u201d was performed for the first time ever, in July 1964, before its Broadway debut in September.<\/p>\n<p>A planned three-city tour of China of the buzzed-about<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/yiddish-fiddler-on-the-roof-opens-in-new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Yiddish version<\/a> by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene\u2019s \u201c<em>Fiddler<\/em>\u201d company, which had been scheduled for April and May, also was called off. So were numerous other professional and amateur productions around the world, as in-person shows have been wiped out by social distancing guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>The musical, based on Sholem Aleichem\u2019s tales of Teyve the Dairyman, has been a beloved mainstay of the American musical theater canon&nbsp; since its Broadway debut 56 years ago. With music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and book by Joseph Stein, the show\u2019s themes of family intergenerational conflict and religious persecution are considered so universal that \u201cFiddler\u201d has been performed all over the globe \u2014 even in places where Jewish culture is virtually or completely nonexistent.<\/p>\n<p>In a sign of its continual appeal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/theres-going-to-be-a-new-fiddler-on-the-roof-movie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a second Hollywood film adaptation<\/a> was recently announced.<\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon may still be surprising to understand for some, since the show\u2019s setting and milieu is so Jewish: It takes place in a fictional shtetl called Anatevka around the turn of the 20th century, and is full of Jewish customs and traditions. Some backers of the original musical believed it would be \u201ctoo Jewish\u201d for tourists to enjoy and comprehend.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_44155\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1-Yiddish-Fiddler.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44155\" class=\"wp-image-44155 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1-Yiddish-Fiddler-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Steven Skybell, center, as Tevye in the NYTF's original production of &quot;Fidler Afn Dakh&quot; (&quot;Fiddler on the Roof&quot;). (Photo courtesy NYTF)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1-Yiddish-Fiddler-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1-Yiddish-Fiddler-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1-Yiddish-Fiddler-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44155\" class=\"wp-image-44155 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1-Yiddish-Fiddler-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Steven Skybell, center, as Tevye in the NYTF's original production of &quot;Fidler Afn Dakh&quot; (&quot;Fiddler on the Roof&quot;). (Photo courtesy NYTF)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1-Yiddish-Fiddler-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1-Yiddish-Fiddler-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1-Yiddish-Fiddler-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-44155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steven Skybell, center, as Tevye in the NYTF&#8217;s original production of &#8220;Fidler Afn Dakh&#8221; (&#8220;Fiddler on the Roof&#8221;). (Photo courtesy NYTF)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But that hasn\u2019t been the case. \u201c<em>Fiddle<\/em>r\u201d has been performed extensively in Japan, for instance, where a producer once told Harnick that the story is \u201cso Japanese.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Hamilton<\/em>\u201d creator Lin-Manuel Miranda is just one of the show\u2019s many prominent non-Jewish fans. He famously performed some of the music at his own wedding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is that that makes it speak in so many languages?\u201d Broadway legend Joel Grey, who directed the Yiddish version of \u201c<em>Fiddler<\/em>\u201d that ran Off Broadway for nearly two years, asked in a documentary from last year titled \u201cFiddler: A Miracle of Miracles.\u201d \u201cEverybody thinks that it\u2019s about them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Fiddler<\/em>\u201d is so popular internationally that it\u2019s often been said that the show has been performed at least once somewhere in the world every day for years. The \u201cMiracle of Miracles\u201d documentary takes that idea a step further, stating on its concluding title card that \u201cever since \u2018Fiddler on the Roof\u2019 opened on Broadway on Sept. 22, 1964, the show has been performed every day somewhere around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All that may or may not be accurate, but the \u201csince 1964\u201d part most certainly isn\u2019t. What is known, however, is that the complete absence of \u201cFiddler\u201d productions is unprecedented.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55556\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DannyBurstein_Alan-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55556\" class=\"wp-image-55556 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DannyBurstein_Alan-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Star of &quot;Fiddler on the Roof&quot; Danny Burstein (Tevye) with CCJN editor Alan Smason in 2016. The show ran from 2015 to the beginning of 2017. (Photo by Susan Rothberg)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DannyBurstein_Alan-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DannyBurstein_Alan-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DannyBurstein_Alan-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DannyBurstein_Alan-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DannyBurstein_Alan-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55556\" class=\"wp-image-55556 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DannyBurstein_Alan-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Star of &quot;Fiddler on the Roof&quot; Danny Burstein (Tevye) with CCJN editor Alan Smason in 2016. The show ran from 2015 to the beginning of 2017. (Photo by Susan Rothberg)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DannyBurstein_Alan-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DannyBurstein_Alan-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DannyBurstein_Alan-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DannyBurstein_Alan-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DannyBurstein_Alan-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-55556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Star of &#8220;Fiddler on the Roof&#8221; Danny Burstein (Tevye) with CCJN editor Alan Smason in 2016. The show ran from 2015 to the beginning of 2017. (Photo by Susan Rothberg)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe have always said that based on its popularity and its universal appeal, \u2018Fiddler\u2019 has a performance every day somewhere in the world,\u201d said John Prignano, chief operating officer for Music Theatre International, or MTI, the rights holder for \u201c<em>Fiddler<\/em>.\u201d \u201cUnfortunately, as you can imagine during this unfortunate time, that\u2019s no longer true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prignano said that \u201c[we] understand that there are no performances anywhere in the world at the moment.\u201d<br \/>\nHe added that MTI does not have documentation of every single performance and day that the show has or hasn\u2019t been performed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough it\u2019s hard (maybe impossible) to verify, that is one of those things that sounds like it should be true \u2014 and if it\u2019s not true, it\u2019s likely close to true,\u201d said Alisa Solomon, the author of the 2014 book \u201cWonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of \u2018Fiddler on the Roof,&#8217;\u201d of the claim that \u201c<em>Fiddler<\/em>\u201d has been performed every day.<\/p>\n<p>Solomon added that in her reporting for the book, she was told by MTI that there were \u201cseveral hundred\u201d licensed productions of \u201c<em>Fiddler<\/em>\u201d in the year 2012, \u201cfrom Panama City to Klaipeda,\u201d and that that\u2019s not counting unauthorized productions. Solomon\u2019s book refers to \u201cprobably more local productions than the licensing agency can count \u2014 more than it even knows about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The claim that the consecutive run dates all the way back to 1964 is tougher to prove.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can\u2019t be true if you\u2019re starting in 1964 because it would have taken a while for such popularity to be achieved, and there would not have been rival professional productions while Zero Mostel and Herschel Bernardi were performing on Broadway,\u201d said Stephen Whitfield, a retired American studies professor at Brandeis University.&nbsp;Whitfield authored an essay titled \u201cFiddling With Sholom Aleichem: A History of Fiddler on the Roof\u201d in 2003\u2019s \u201cKey Texts in American Jewish Culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, it\u2019s very likely that the 1964 production took a day off each week, as most Broadway shows do, which right then would have ended the streak.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s possible that over five decades there may have been a day here, or a week there, without a \u201c<em>Fiddler<\/em>\u201d performance. It is pretty clear, however, that the past few months have constituted the longest extended period without an ongoing \u201c<em>Fiddler<\/em>\u201d production since sometime in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55555\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55555\" class=\"wp-image-55555 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-1-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"Zero Mostel and Maria Karnilova in a scene from a stage play 'Fiddler On The Roof', 1964. (Photo from a Stage Production\/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-1-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-1-1024x796.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-1-768x597.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-1-1536x1194.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-1-2048x1592.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/233;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55555\" class=\"wp-image-55555 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-1-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"Zero Mostel and Maria Karnilova in a scene from a stage play 'Fiddler On The Roof', 1964. (Photo from a Stage Production\/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-1-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-1-1024x796.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-1-768x597.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-1-1536x1194.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-15-20-fiddler-1-2048x1592.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-55555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zero Mostel and Maria Karnilova, center, in &#8220;Fiddler On The Roof&#8221; on Broadway in 1964, the year it debuted. (Stage Production\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When will we see \u201c<em>Fiddler on the Roof<\/em>\u201d on stage again? Like so much these days, it\u2019s unclear. Much will depend on when certain areas reopen and whether theater venues are included in those reopenings. Some of the North American tour\u2019s canceled dates have been rescheduled for the fall or next year, as have some regional productions.<\/p>\n<p>Even with no live performances, amateur productions of \u201c<em>Fiddler<\/em>\u201d have found a way.<\/p>\n<p>The Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School in Washington, D.C., was planning a production for this spring, but instead put together a unique \u201cvirtual\u201d production of the show in which the middle schoolers performed at home, with the videos edited into a full production. At the end of April, the cast shared a Zoom call with Zalmen Mlotek, the music supervisor of the Yiddish version, in which he shared stories, sang songs and even said he would record a song for use in the show.<\/p>\n<p>The high school theater department at Montezuma-Cortez High School in Cortez, Colorado, had been scheduled to perform a production of \u201c<em>Fiddler<\/em>\u201d this spring. But when it became clear in early March that school was shutting down and the planned production would not take place, the dress rehearsal was filmed, according to The Journal, a local newspaper. The footage of that production was streamed live on YouTube on May 8.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1697\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Tevye_Daughters_edit.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1697\" class=\"wp-image-1697 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Tevye_Daughters_edit-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"Randy Cheramie, who has played Tevye more than any other local actor, is seen here in a 2015 production of &quot;Fiddler on the Roof&quot; at Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane. (Photo by Michael Palumbo Photography)\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Tevye_Daughters_edit-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Tevye_Daughters_edit.jpg 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/218;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1697\" class=\"wp-image-1697 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Tevye_Daughters_edit-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"Randy Cheramie, who has played Tevye more than any other local actor, is seen here in a 2015 production of &quot;Fiddler on the Roof&quot; at Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane. (Photo by Michael Palumbo Photography)\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Tevye_Daughters_edit-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Tevye_Daughters_edit.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Randy Cheramie, who has played Tevye more than any other local actor, is seen here in a 2015 production of &#8220;Fiddler on the Roof&#8221; at Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane. (Photo by Michael Palumbo Photography)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Similar scenarios have played out elsewhere. The Polytechnic School in Pasadena, California, also streamed the production of its dress rehearsal on May 8, as did Haldane High School in Cold Spring, New York, the Highlands Current reported, on the last weekend in April. The list goes on.<\/p>\n<p>At its heart, a large piece of the \u201c<em>Fiddler<\/em>\u201d story is about dealing with generational and cultural change \u2014 something that COVID-19 has wrought in spades. Miranda sounded prophetic talking about the musical for the \u201cMiracle of Miracles\u201d documentary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn moments of great upheaval, \u2018<em>Fiddler<\/em>\u2019 is always going to seem relevant because the world is changing faster than we can understand,\u201d the Tony winner said. \u201cAnd we look to our traditions to guide us and sometimes they fail us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that \u201cin Anatevka, things have been done the same way for thousands of years, but what happens when the outside world is saying you can\u2019t live here anymore? And that\u2019s what the show\u2019s about, and it\u2019s intensely accessible because we are going through times of great change and great upheaval.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Some%20believe%20%E2%80%98Fiddler%20on%20the%20Roof%E2%80%99%20was%20staged%20somewhere%20in%20the%20world%20every%20day%20since%20the%20%E2%80%9960s.%20COVID-19%20ended%20that.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7122],"tags":[344,10719,1626,8790,8795,10718,4483,8788,10717,4485],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55557,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55552\/revisions\/55557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}