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Harold Prince has said that when approached with the idea to develop Shalom Aleichem’s stories into a musical, he felt ill prepared to do so. As a German American Jew he could not identify with the material. Better to ask Jerome Robbins instead, as his family had come from Russia and could better identify and hence work with the material more effectively.
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Amanda Vaiil, Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins (New York: Broadway Books, 2006), 31–33.
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1998), 264.
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Hecht, S.J. (2011). Fiddler’s Children. In: Transposing Broadway. Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137001740_7
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