August 10, 2005, - 2:55 pm
All Gay “Fiddler on the Roof”?
By Debbie Schlussel
Did “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” take over the Broadway revival of “Fiddler on the Roof”–the musical about a traditional Jewish family in Europe?
USA Today reported that gay activist/”comedienne” (who is not funny) Rosie O’Donnell will take over the starring female lead in Fiddler, opposite gay activist/actor Harvey Fierstein. It will be hard to suspend belief as she sings, “Sunrise, Sunset.”
A gay Tevye AND Golde? Mix that with “Rich Girl,” the hip-hop rip-off of Fiddler’s “If I Were a Rich Man” sung by Eve and No Doubt’s Gwen Stefani, and somehow I really don’t think this was what Shalom Aleichem (the Yiddish author who wrote “Tevye’s Daughers” on which “Fiddler” is based) had envisioned.
Tags: activist /actor, Debbie Schlussel Did, Europe, Fiddler, Gwen Stefani, Harvey Fierstein, If I Were a Rich Man, Rosie O'Donnell, USA Today, Yiddish author
Has Rosie ever been involved in any successful project, except for Sleepless in Seattle in spite of Rosie? How does he keep getting hired?
I do recommend that movie where Rosie plays a tard, “Riding the Bus with My Sister.” I think it’s a documentary on Rosie’s life, but I could be wrong I think.
The_Man on August 10, 2005 at 9:22 pm