Yiddish 'Fiddler On The Roof' Opens Off-Broadway

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March 19, 2019

Jon Kalish

Steven Skybell, right, as Tevye, rehearses with the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene cast of a Yiddish-language version of "Fiddler on the Roof," at the at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York on June 19, 2018. (Richard Drew/AP)

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A production of "Fiddler on the Roof" done entirely in Yiddish was a surprise sell-out smash last summer. It was so popular that two Broadway producers have gotten behind it, and it's reopening in the largest off-Broadway theater in New York. Reporter Jon Kalish (@kalishjon) has the story.

This segment aired on March 19, 2019.

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