Fiddler on the Roof: Directed by Norman Jewison. With Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon. In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while
“Fiddler on the Roof” has been around a long time, has become an institution and has added some good songs to our memories. But in the process it’s become so polished, so packaged, so distanced from the real feelings that inspired the original stories of Sholem Aleichem (who didn’t...