Fiddler on the Roof – as it really was
Daily Comfort ZoneThe 1939 film of Tevye the Milkman, based on Sholom Aleychem’s original story of 1894.
Comments
MOST READ TODAY:
-
Orchestras
Berlin Phil oboe’s US class arouses disquiet
A social media activist has circulated a video…
-
Orchestras
NY Times chief joins the Mäkelä sceptics
Zachary Woolfe, chief music critic of the New…
-
Orchestras
Barenboim quits Berlin concerts
The Berlin State Opera communicated tonight that its…
-
Orchestras
Cleveland turns in good numbers
The Cleveland Orchestra today published its results for…
Unlnike Hirshbein’s Gruene Felder, this was filmed in an abandoned potato field in Long Island and a studio in the Bronx.
Spielberg is in contract with Disney to do a remake of this with a new script in English by Tony Kushner set on the Lower East Side of NY, and original kletzmer music played by Martin Frost.
your source for this information please
MGM is planning a remake of Fiddler on the Roof. In light of the box-office success of Spieberg’s most recent remake, perhaps his (SS) new approach will be the more successful of the two.
Meanwhile Lin-Manuel Miranda has announced his remake of My Fair Lady, where someone takes a homie straight out of Compton and teaches her how to ask and not ax and then to sing and makes her into the new Jessye Norman?
Everything about that sounds great! I only wonder if Giora Feidman is unavailable….
Thank you very much for posting this.
You might google Steven Lasky and visit this sight for more:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/213571865791425
“Sight”?
Magnificent. A potato field on
Long Island served well.