This excerpt from Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy speaks to the surprising universality of the 1964 Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick musical Fiddler on the Roof—a show about a small, tight-knit Jewish community living in early 20th-century Tsarist Russia.
availablepublic1498http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/broadway-musicals-a-jewish-legacy-video-fiddlers-tradition/1498/2317630614cove1498Fiddler's TraditionThe surprising universality of the Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick musical Fiddler on Roof.The surprising universality of the 1964 Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick musical Fiddler on the Roof—a show about a small, tight-knit Jewish community living in early 20th-century Tsarist Russia. Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy airs January 1, 2013 at 9:30 PM (check local listings).2013-01-01 21:00publishdisabledshowfalse8939"I'll Build A Stairway to Paradise"Henri's dreams of being a star singer manifest in this musical number.http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/an-american-in-paris-the-musical-stairway-to-paradise/8939/2018-11-02 21:00http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/files/2018/10/MM-Thumb-GP-AAIP-Clip2-480x270.jpg3017356511cove8936"I Got Rhythm"The cast performs a Gershwin favorite - the exuberant "I Got Rhythm."http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/an-american-in-paris-the-musical-i-got-rhythm/8936/2018-11-02 21:00http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/files/2018/10/MM-Thumb-GP-Clip1-IvegotRhythm-480x270.jpg3017353357cove