“Beyond its continuing vibrant life in the theater, ‘Fiddler,’ like no other musical before or since, has seeped into the culture more widely, functioning in sometimes contradictory ways, which makes sense, since the show's essential gesture is dialectical: it looks backward and forward, favors both community and individual needs, honors the particular and the universal, [...]
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 05:43PM on October 21, 2013