Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof (69 page)

“tastes great and looks Jewish”
Thane Rosenbaum, “A Legacy Cut Loose,”
Los Angeles Times
, February 15, 2004.

“de-Jewed”
Michael Riedel, “Shtetl Shock—L.A. Times Hits Roof; Actress Hits the Road,”
New York Post
, February 18, 2004.

“ludicrous joke”
Leveaux interview.

“has many inventive skills”
Peter Marks, “A ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Hopelessly Out of Tune,”
Washington Post
, February 27, 2004.

“to abound in Russian-Jewish”
Jeremy McCarter, “The Musical to Start All Musicals,”
New York Sun
, February 27, 2004.

“personal and touching”
Marc Miller, “Fiddler on the Roof,” January 21, 2005, the
atermania.com/story/5558?
.

reviewers from publications large and small
See, for instance, Linda Winer, “Fiddler on the Roof,”
Newsday
, lamenting that Molina’s “biddy biddy bums” in “Rich Man” “sound more like a Bing Crosby croon than a playful Talmudic approximation,”
Newsday,
February 27, 2004.

Ben Brantley devoted an entire paragraph
“A Cozy Little McShtetl,”
New York Times
, February 27, 2004.

“Fiddler with No Jew”
Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit
, by Gerard Alessandrini, opened on Broadway at the Douglas Fairbanks Theater, December 16, 2004. Original cast album released April 26, 2005, on DRG.

“without the truer feelings”
Rosenbaum quoted in Riedel, “Shtetl Shock.”

“In the secular Jewish home”
Peter Marks, “A ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Hopelessly out of Tune,”
Washington Post
, February 27, 2004.

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