Tevye is slated to reappear in a three-hour U.S. television version in a few years. The TV version of “Fiddler on the Roof,” to be aired over the ABC network, will be modeled on the classic Broadway stage hit, but with an eye toward a new generation that has seen neither the live musical nor the 1971 movie version.
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