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My first as a child was The Wizard Of Oz. It's a favorite!
I also loved the Sound of Music. I have it so I can watch it often!
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My first as a child was The Wizard Of Oz. It's a favorite!
I also loved the Sound of Music. I have it so I can watch it often!
A treat for me a few years back was watching my daughter play Dorothy in a high school presentation of The Wizard of Oz (the musical version).
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I hated the Wizard of Oz. Those flying monkeys still creep me out!My first as a child was The Wizard Of Oz. It's a favorite!
I also loved the Sound of Music. I have it so I can watch it often!
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Yeah, I hear ya! They were pretty creepy. But so was the wicked ol witch with green skin. Even the wizard was pretty frightening. But I loved the rest of the movie and the song, "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" was heavenly.
And the munchkins were so adorable!!!
Even the wizard was pretty frightening. But I loved the rest of the movie and the song, "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" was heavenly. And the munchkins were so adorable!!!
For a long time, we only sang some of the songs from the musicals. I rather liked the lyrics of the Trolley Song, without having watched the movie and not knowing what it was about really. Like reading a book before seeing a movie version, the sounds and sights you could only imagine incl. the smell of honeysuckle, high-starched collar, clang clang, zing zing zing...
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I'm quite sad I did not see this thread earlier, but it definitely deserves a bump. I LOVE musicals. I just watched Fiddler on the Roof the other night, actually.
Since this clip has not been posted yet, I'll post it- Captain Von Trapp singing Edelweiss to Maria, very romantic. [video=youtube;8bL2BCiFkTk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bL2BCiFkTk[/video]
Since this clip has not been posted yet, I'll post it- Captain Von Trapp singing Edelweiss to Maria, very romantic. [video=youtube;8bL2BCiFkTk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bL2BCiFkTk[/video]
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Can't go wrong with Fiddler!!!
This one is sweet with Motl and Zeteil
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The song between Tevya and Golde, Do you love me is really sweet too! It's so hard for me to pick a favorite because they are all done so well.
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The song between Tevya and Golde, Do you love me is really sweet too! It's so hard for me to pick a favorite because they are all done so well.
I love Tevye. If I were Golde, he would not have to ask. Lol
I think it is sweet, but kind of sad that he has to ask her because she is not demonstrative and warm. She's kind of abrasive. It's good the girls got Tevye's nature instead of Golde's. I know people say actions speak louder than words, but those three words are pretty darn important.
I love Tevye. If I were Golde, he would not have to ask. Lol
I think it is sweet, but kind of sad that he has to ask her because she is not demonstrative and warm. She's kind of abrasive. It's good the girls got Tevye's nature instead of Golde's. I know people say actions speak louder than words, but those three words are pretty darn important.
Heh heh, He had a heart of gold.
Because they were portraying the typical Jewish family life for that period in history, I thought it a perfect example of the difficulties during the pogroms era. And with Tevya and Golde's relationship, I thought the song so touching it brought me to tears.
With the thought of them being brought together by a Yenta, their relationship could have been so much worse. But they made due with what they did have in their emotional storehouse.
My thoughts are that if I were placed in that time period with all the challenges they had to face, would my countenance portray a lot of love or would I express the hard life that each new day brings. I'm imagining myself as a typical Jew when I say this and not as a believer.
When I look at Golde, I see not a bitter woman, but a woman carrying too many of the cares of the world on her shoulders. With all the children, (all girls
) and with little food and provisions, living as one of the poor families, it became too much to bear and so she endured by wearing her pain on her shoulder. Every once in a while we get a glimpse of her soft side like in this song.
Living in fear every day was another thing she had to cope with and getting her daughters married off to a wealthy man was always at the forefront of her many worries so that they wouldn't have to live poor.So considering the challenges of life in their situation, I wonder how I would react as a wife and as a mother. Not being able to choose my own husband would probably have been a big deal for me as an unbeliever. Having five children and being poor would probably wear on me each and every day.
Knowing that a pogrom could explode at any moment and the dreary outdoor life of Anatevka would be very depressing. It was a flat plain type village with little trees, shrubs, flowers, lawn. Nothing beautiful about it.
When I take in all that the Jews may have gone through during this time of their history, I see Golde as a strong woman, a loving mother who struggles with her husband's inability to make a better life for all of them and get them out of poverty.
I have a friend who grew up during the great depression era. She's 96 and still full of vigor. But when she related the difficulty of growing up dirt poor, I can see how others would struggle as each day the sun would rise to another depressing day. Each day is a full day of work for the mom, the dad and the children. You worked hard from sun up to sun down. In today's society we have no clue within ourselves as to what it was like. We've grown up soft and well cared for in comparison.
So anyway, as I see it, Golde handled her emotions better than many would have. She saw her duty as wife and mother and carried out her responsibilities with a self-controlled love with a strong resilience to the pain and suffering life brings. And as the song shows, she loved her Tevya!
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I think she had it pretty good, in comparison to the other women in Anatevka. It could have been a HECK of a lot worse. She could have been married to someone who was NOT Tevye. What I mean is this: yes, she was married to a man she did not know, but after she found out he was warm, loving, kind, and good- why she would have been overcome with gratitude that Yente married her off to Tevye and not to someone who was cold and undemonstrative.
Heh heh, He had a heart of gold.
Because they were portraying the typical Jewish family life for that period in history, I thought it a perfect example of the difficulties during the pogroms era. And with Tevya and Golde's relationship, I thought the song so touching it brought me to tears.
With the thought of them being brought together by a Yenta, their relationship could have been so much worse. But they made due with what they did have in their emotional storehouse.
My thoughts are that if I were placed in that time period with all the challenges they had to face, would my countenance portray a lot of love or would I express the hard life that each new day brings. I'm imagining myself as a typical Jew when I say this and not as a believer.
When I look at Golde, I see not a bitter woman, but a woman carrying too many of the cares of the world on her shoulders. With all the children, (all girls
Every once in a while we get a glimpse of her soft side like in this song.
So considering the challenges of life in their situation, I wonder how I would react as a wife and as a mother. Not being able to choose my own husband would probably have been a big deal for me as an unbeliever. Having five children and being poor would probably wear on me each and every day.
Knowing that a pogrom could explode at any moment and the dreary outdoor life of Anatevka would be very depressing. It was a flat plain type village with little trees, shrubs, flowers, lawn. Nothing beautiful about it.
When I take in all that the Jews may have gone through during this time of their history, I see Golde as a strong woman, a loving mother who struggles with her husband's inability to make a better life for all of them and get them out of poverty.
I have a friend who grew up during the great depression era. She's 96 and still full of vigor. But when she related the difficulty of growing up dirt poor, I can see how others would struggle as each day the sun would rise to another depressing day. Each day is a full day of work for the mom, the dad and the children. You worked hard from sun up to sun down. In today's society we have no clue within ourselves as to what it was like. We've grown up soft and well cared for in comparison.
So anyway, as I see it, Golde handled her emotions better than many would have. She saw her duty as wife and mother and carried out her responsibilities with a self-controlled love with a strong resilience to the pain and suffering life brings. And as the song shows, she loved her Tevya!
It's all about comparison. It's hard enough to find a good man to marry on your own, so most women would be overcome with gratitude that the set-up marriage was one with a man that was good and loving. He could have been a jerk. She could have been married to Lasar Wolf, or that guy always making speeches. She kind of got the best of the best when she ended up with Tevye.
Life was hard, sure- but that doesn't mean you can't tell your husband "I love you" and let him know not with just being a good wife in terms of taking care of the house and children. I mean, it's kind of sad that he has to ask after 25 years. I think I am biased toward demonstrative people, as I am demonstrative myself.
Galatea, yes, I see your point as well. Back then I'm thinking they just weren't as demonstrative as we are today. The friend who's 96 says that they weren't in her growing up years either. It wasn't accepted behavior back then.
It seems today we've swung the pendulum to the other side and so we're looking through glasses of our era and what we've grown up with maybe.
I'll have to give it a watch again. Some of the details of the movie are a little blurred. You have fresh memories being you've just seen it.
It seems today we've swung the pendulum to the other side and so we're looking through glasses of our era and what we've grown up with maybe.
I'll have to give it a watch again. Some of the details of the movie are a little blurred. You have fresh memories being you've just seen it.
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In the film, Tevye is generous- open hearted and open handed. Golde, not so much. She is more of a Martha type- worried about material things. Even in the "If I Were a Rich Man" number, Tevye sings about all the material things he would like- but the sweetest thing of all would be able to study the Torah and have a seat at the Wailing Wall.Galatea, yes, I see your point as well. Back then I'm thinking they just weren't as demonstrative as we are today. The friend who's 96 says that they weren't in her growing up years either. It wasn't accepted behavior back then.
It seems today we've swung the pendulum to the other side and so we're looking through glasses of our era and what we've grown up with maybe.
I'll have to give it a watch again. Some of the details of the movie are a little blurred. You have fresh memories being you've just seen it.
He brings home Perchek for the Sabbath, Golde is nonplussed. Also, when Motl and Tzeitel want to be married, he can't just tell Golde "Our daughter loves Motl and he loves her. She would be miserable if we marry her off to Lasar Wolfe, although he is well off and Motl is poor." Golde is interested more in material things. Tevye has to come up with a bogus dream in order to get Golde to agree to breaking off the match.
I probably just like Tevye so much, I judge Golde a little harshly. She is hurt when Chava is outcast.