Sheldon Harnick, z"l Answer

06/25/2023

B. When Lazar Wolf met with Tevye to ask him for his daughter Tzeitel’s hand in marriage, Tevye replied, “Why should I give my daughter to a coarse, crude, butcher? A man like you, a man with no soul?” Lazar Wolf responded, singing a song titled A Butcher’s Soul. But Jerome Robbins decided that this scene needed to focus on Tevye, not Lazar Wolf.

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D. If I Were A Woman, a duet featuring Perchik and Hodel, was a song in which the two were arguing, but clearly showed they were attracted to each other. Jerome Robbins cut the song, saying, “…the show is too long. And I can accomplish the same thing in 30 seconds of dance.”

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