“This engaging and enlightening documentary is stuffed with anecdotes, history and information.” (LA Times)
Director Max Lewkowicz’s sensational love letter to Fiddler on the Roof asks: What makes this quintessentially Jewish musical—about the unlikely story of a milkman and his family living in a shtetl in Czarist Russia—universally appealing? Fiddler beautifully chronicles the life and themes of this iconic piece of American culture, which opened on Broadway in 1964, held the record for the longest running musical for almost 10 years, won nine Tony Awards, and has spawned countless productions around the world in every kind of venue imaginable. While everyone from Lin-Manuel Miranda, Harold Prince, Jerry Bock, Chaim Topol, and Harvey Fierstein to Fran Lebowitz, Calvin Trillin, and Stephen Sondheim muses on the show’s popularity, archival footage of original director-choreographer Jerome Robbins and star Zero Mostel add to the fun.
Tickets: $12 (members), $17 (nonmembers)
