Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
What's The Grateful Dead?
I was under my hairstylist's comb one day when "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas came on the radio. I mentioned that I loved the song. She screwed up her face and said she'd never heard it before. I said, it's an old song. She said, like from the 80's? I said, no (argh), the 70's; it's by Kansas. She said, "The state?"
I don't know who Sholom Aleichem is.
He wrote the stories that "Fiddler on the Roof" is based on.
I didn't know Fiddler on the Roof was based on stories.
All I know about it is that there is apparently a fiddler on a roof singing about tradition. And he's Jewish.
All I know about it is that there is apparently a fiddler on a roof singing about tradition. And he's Jewish.
And don't forget the matchmaking. I would think you would know about that.
I didn't know Fiddler on the Roof was based on stories.
Most of them were originally published in magazines, and then collected into several books. Basically, a series of short stories about Tevye and his wife and family and the other people in his town. Fiddler on the Roof took the basic characters, and several of the plots of the short stories became subplots of the musical, and stuck a happy ending on one that didn't have a happy ending, and kind of mixed and matched bits and pieces to make a coherent story.
And don't forget the matchmaking. I would think you would know about that.
Oh, of course. The matchmaking.
Basically, a series of short stories about Tevye and his wife and family and the other people in his town. Fiddler on the Roof took the basic characters, and several of the plots of the short stories became subplots of the musical, and stuck a happy ending on one that didn't have a happy ending, and kind of mixed and matched bits and pieces to make a coherent story.
Cool.
Oh, and the actual fiddler doesn't come from Sholom Aleichem at all -- he's from a Marc Chagall painting.
stuck a happy ending on one that didn't have a happy ending
Hodel and Perchik?
I don't totally remember the details, but in the stories, one of the daughters committed suicide.