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| re: Whence Tevye's red coat... | |
| Posted by: | portenopete 04:16 pm EST 12/19/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Whence Tevye's red coat... - singleticket 12:55 pm EST 12/19/15 |
| I agree! I understand Harnick's resistance but I am glad that he has allowed the change to happen. The bones of FIDDLER are so strong that it can withstand interpretation. And fifty years on, the show has entered the popular imagination so thoroughly that I applaud an attempt to remind audiences of what the show is about at its core. Sure there will be cognoscenti who think it's overdone, but obviously Harnick realized that a point is being made to a lot of people and thinks it's a valuable point to make. Looking forward to this show! | |
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| re: Whence Tevye's red coat... | |
| Posted by: | ryhog 04:45 pm EST 12/19/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Whence Tevye's red coat... - portenopete 04:16 pm EST 12/19/15 |
| Also, that opening image, which bleeds promptly into the familiar one, does not in the least take the audience out of the play because, until it is bookended, it doesn't really convey much of anything. That, I assume, is what was meant by the comment that it is "insignificant." The only basis for a complaint is that expressed by the purists who believe in the sanctity of the book of a musical as if it were the Talmud. | |
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| re: Whence Tevye's red coat... | |
| Posted by: | singleticket 01:31 pm EST 12/20/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Whence Tevye's red coat... - ryhog 04:45 pm EST 12/19/15 |
| I haven't seen the production yet but I'm not sure if that's the case. People might have a good reason beyond purity for not liking or agreeing with the book-ended images and they might have a troubling resonance beyond "let's be compassionate towards contemporary refugees as that is the history of the Jewish diaspora". Sometimes metaphor resonates in unexpected directions. | |
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| re: Whence Tevye's red coat... | |
| Posted by: | ryhog 02:44 pm EST 12/20/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Whence Tevye's red coat... - singleticket 01:31 pm EST 12/20/15 |
| Perhaps I could have been clearer: I think you are right when you consider the book-ended images; I was focusing only on the upfront image which I would not call a metaphor because it is an inchoate image. My sense is that it does not yet resonate on any stop except "purity." | |
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