skygiants

RIGHT????

I watched Fiddler a couple times growing up -- we saw it in music class (in my 50% Jewish elementary school, of course) and I remember watching it at my aunt's house, so, like, I knew it, large bits of it were tucked away in the back of my brain somewhere -- but I never reached the point of getting sick of it. I did have this memory of it as fairly Rogers-and-Hammerstein schmaltzy, though, which is why I was so surprised when I rewatched it and had ALL THESE FEELINGS. I thought I was protected against schmaltz! And then it turns out there are certain kinds of schmaltz against which I have NO defense.

...that said, the benefit of reading a book is that there is no need to hear even a few notes of "Sunrise Sunset!" :D