Chris Jones writes: 'The titular fiddler here is a small child (Drake Wunderlich) with a violin, who first appears wearing headphones and riding on a scooter, dwarfed by the Lyric’s huge stagehouse.'
Director Barrie Kosky’s breathtaking Lyric Opera staging of “Fiddler on the Roof” hit me with such an unexpected flood of emotion on Saturday night, I’ve rewritten this first paragraph numerous times. How best to persuade you to go?
The kid — in a parent’s bedroom, we imagine — plays the famous first notes as if seeking their genesis, and then Steven Skybell’s Tevye literally appears out of a wardrobe, closely followed by, it seems, all of the village of Anatevka, rushing onto the stage in their period garb, telling their story for the ages.
This is not such a “Fiddler,” and hence my unbridled enthusiasm. It honors the traditions of the original, deepening them through such embrace of both human universality and Jewish specificity, with additional Yiddish sprinkled throughout.
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