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| 1970 | Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Original. October 19, 1970 · Michael Kidd | 507 performances |
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The team’s songs for The Body Beautiful were tuneful and lively, and the next year they wrote the score for the long-running Pulitzer Prize-winning Fiorello! , and during the next eleven years were represented on Broadway five times with Tenderloin (1960), She Loves Me (1963), Fiddler on the Roof (1964), The Apple Tree… book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p675
The show and especially the score were not light enough for most audiences. However, though unappreciated at the time, the show (or at least the score) is now considered an artistic success. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p95
Bock effectively synthesizes the mainstream Broadway idiom with particular time-, place-, and eth- nic-specific references, as is evident in the New York of Fiorello!, the Russian-Jewish village of Anatevka in Fiddler on the Roof, or 18th-century Frankfurt and London in The Rothschilds. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p76
The so-called Jewish musical (and the Jewish theatre party business) sustained a mortal, though not fatal, blow in 1970-1971, with The Rothschilds, Two by Two, and Ari in quick succession. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p95
'Things went as expected, which is to say they opened in Boston and fired the director and new choreographer. Benthall was replaced by bright-haired-boy Derek Goldby, who had just wowed ’em with the 1968 Tom Stoppard import Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He had never done a musical, either. Goldby was just then… book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p455
“See those guys? They wrote The Rothschilds.” Quoth the Groucho, “Did they write back?” book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p635
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