\ud83c\udfad NEW! Ft. Myers\/Naples Theatre Newsletter<\/p>\n
Ya gotta love a musical that opens with a stage full of women in babushkas. The venerable Fiddler on the Roof is now playing at Broadway Palm.<\/p>\n
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It takes someone bigger than life to play Tevye, the milkman who is in the midst of cultural change. Jacob Medich<\/a> beautifully conveys the humor and the pathos in this iconic role. For a big guy, he is light on his feet and has a ringing voice, particularly in his lower range.<\/p>\n In his frequent conversations with God, he is accompanied musically on stage by The Fiddler, played by Troy Serena, who acts as sort of a Greek chorus, wordlessly expressing his reactions to Tevye\u2019s plight.<\/p>\n With five daughters to marry off, Barbara Bayes<\/a> as Golde needs the service of a matchmaker and Susan Shaffel as Yente is the answer to a mother\u2019s prayer. What a fabulous part for an actress, and Shaffel is perfectly cast. Her rapid fire speech and unfailing optimism come through.<\/p>\n Temple Beth El sponsored this production and I\u2019m guessing provided some consulting on Jewish customs. I appreciated the respect and the care given to little touches in the stage business and costuming.<\/p>\n The score of this show is so beloved, and the choreography Joshua <\/a>William Green<\/a> has given to the big production numbers is fun to watch. There is always robust dancing to be found on the Broadway Palm stage.<\/p>\n The setting may be in a foreign land in a different time, but the story\u2019s themes still resonate: family, love, tradition.<\/p>\n Fiddler on the Roof plays through February 14. For tickets, call 239.278.4422.<\/p>\n Reader Reviews<\/p>\n To post a comment, you must register<\/a> and login<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udfad NEW! Ft. Myers\/Naples Theatre Newsletter Get all the top news & discounts for Ft. Myers\/Naples & beyond.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":{"0":"post-113528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}