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Whence Tevye's red coat...
Posted by: theaterluvr 06:20 am EST 12/19/15
From Saturday's Times

a modern framing device — a bareheaded Tevye in modern clothing, and, at the end, an inescapable visual nod to the current global refugee crisis

For months, the innovation, which consumes perhaps a minute in a show that is 155 minutes long, has been debated by the show’s Tony-winning director, Bartlett Sher, and its Tony-winning lyricist, Sheldon Harnick

Ultimately, after weeks of previews during which the framing device was adjusted and argued over, Mr. Harnick, who had the right to block the change, acceded to the staging.
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