I had the incredible pleasure of seeing the new revival Of Fiddler On The Roof back in January. It is one of the freshest, most entertaining Broadway shows I have seen in a very long time.
With that being said, you might be a Fiddler On The Roof fan if…
You don’t have to be Jewish or have familial roots in Eastern Europe to recognize the human relationships or the human stories enfolding on stage.
If you had any control over the Tony Awards in June, you would automatically give Danny Burnstein the award for Best Actor in a musical.
You recognize the contemporary nature of the narrative, especially with the current refugee crisis in Syria.
If you have a sister or a brother, you understand the relationship between Tevye’s daughters.
You have purchased the soundtrack, which has instantly wormed itself into your brain and has not left.
You are sad that the last episode of Motel Citizen premiered tonight.
If you are Jewish and your ancestors have come from Eastern Europe, you are bursting with nachas (pride) that the revival is a success.
You have seen this revival at least once (or twice) and would eagerly go again.
As a woman, looking back at the lives of Golde, her daughters and the women of Anatevka, you appreciate that what you can accomplish goes beyond the traditional roles of marriage and motherhood.
Even though you may know the story inside out, you are wishing that for once, the story would have ended differently.
Knowing the history of 20th century Europe, you wince at Tzeitel and Motel moving to Warsaw and you hope that if a sequel to Fiddler existed, that they would have left Europe before World War II.
You appreciate the following sequence of numbers, especially when it comes to playing the lottery: 4 ,8, 15, 16, 23, 42.
You watch Once Upon A Time and remember when Emilie deRaven, Elizabeth Mitchell and Rebecca Mader were known on screen as Claire, Juliet and Charlotte, not Belle, Ingrid and Zelena.
You rank the sex scene between Sawyer and Kate in the cage as one of the hottest television sex scenes.
You want to attend a Drive Shaft concert and know the lyrics to “You All Everybody”.
You have a new outlook on air transportation.
You still feel like many questions were left unanswered, especially from the finale.
It was the most irritating, entertaining shows on television that kept you begging for more.
You watched the finale with a box of kleenex to wipe your eyes and a pad to write down the limitless fanfiction ideas /questions that entered your mind.
You want to visit or have visited Hawaii because of Lost.
When the reruns are on, you still sit down to watch.
And finally, you still question the wisdom of the final pairing of Jack/Kate and Sawyer/Juliet.
You follow the careers of the actors who have played Bronte characters, even if some of their post-Bronte choice of roles were questionable.
You can easily rank your favorite adaptations of the novels and the actors who played the various characters.
You saw the Jane Eyre musical.
Your annoyed when people confuse any of Brontes with Jane Austen. Jane Austen is not the sequel or the prequel to Jane Eyre.
You side with Emily Bronte in the debate about who is a better writer.
You were thrilled when you assigned to read one of the novels in school.
And finally, every time you finish one of their novels, you silently thank them for being bold enough to share their genius with the rest of the world.
You being many a sentence with “It is a universally acknowledged….”
As a single person, your dates are compared to the following
If the date was good (and your female and/or straight): Captain Wentworth, Edmund Bertram, Fitzwilliam Darcy, etc
If your date was bad (and your female and/or straight) : Mr. Elliot, Henry Crawford, Mr. Collins, Mr. Wickham,
If your date was good (and your male and/or straight): Anne Elliot, Fanny Price, Elizabeth Bennet, etc.
If your date was bad (and your male and/or straight): Elizabeth Elliot, Mariah Bertram, Caroline Bingley, Mary Bennet etc
You frequently drop references to Austen characters and story lines in your every day conversations: i.e.- when sharing the details of a bad date with a friend: He was such a Mr. Collins. I wanted to puke.
You compare your parents to the parents in Austen and thank your lucky stars that your parents are not like them.
You want to see, have seen or own one of the following because more than one Austen actor is on the cast list. This is regardless of whether it is a period piece, if it is related to Jane Austen or how the reviewers reacted.
The Kings Speech
Love Actually
Gambit
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Possession
Harry Potter
A Little Chaos
Daniel Deronda
Summer In February
Captain America
Much Ado About Nothing
Nanny McPhee
Effie Gray
Brideshead Revisisted
Jungbug
Bridget Jones Diary
You own more than one copy of her novels (I have three physical different copies of Pride and Prejudice, well four if you count the digital copy).
You drool over period costumes, especially regency era clothes.
The top of your travel bucket list includes Chawton and Lyme Park.
You spend way too much time on youtube watching Austen related videos, thinking of songs that would make good videos, writing Jane Austen related fanfiction or killing time by looking up Jane Austen related products on etsy.
You still think Colin Firth is one of the hottest guys you’ve ever seen.
You own more than one filmed adaptation of the books.
And finally, you have a group of friends who are just as crazy about Jane and her books as you are.
