DOUBLE FEATURE - "Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles" and "The Fiddle"

  • The Fiddle
  • Fiddler
  • Fiddler
  • The Fiddle
  • The Fiddle

Showings

AMC Loews New Brunswick A Thu, Nov 7, 2019 12:30 PM
AMC Loews New Brunswick A Sun, Nov 17, 2019 12:00 PM
Film Info
Director:Max Lewkowicz
Release Year:2019
Production Country:USA
Original Language:English

Description

The new documentary, Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles, looks at the cultural history of one of the world’s most beloved musicals. When Fiddler on the Roof opened on Broadway in 1964, it explored themes of tradition, religion, and anti-Semitism against a modern backdrop of radical social change. With rare archival footage and interviews with musical luminaries including Stephen Sondheim, Topol, and Lin-Manuel Miranda, the film explores the impact of this long-running, award-winning musical, including the true wonder of wonders—that audiences worldwide and for the last half century all claim the story as their own.

 

“An exhilarating, expansive, warts-and-all look into 1964 Broadway phenomenon Fiddler on the Roof.”
— Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

 

Preceded by The Fiddle.

This beautifully animated short film, based on Sholem Aleichem’s short story “The Fiddle,” tells the tale of a boy and his beloved fiddle. Narrated by the renowned Yiddish theater and Broadway actor Mike Burstyn.

Director: Asher Schwartz
Israel, 2018, 9 minutes
Yiddish with English subtitles

 

GUEST SPEAKER: November 7 and 17 - Prof. Marc Aronson, Rutgers University

 

Sponsored by David and Sylvia Steiner