<P> In the film version, the character of Yente is reduced, and Perchik's song to Hodel "Now I Have Everything" is cut and replaced by a scene in Kiev . The "Chagall color palette" of the original Broadway production was exchanged for a grittier, more realistic depiction of the village of Anatevka . </P> <P> Theatre writer John Kenrick writes that the original Broadway cast album released by RCA Victor in 1964, "shimmers--an essential recording in any show lover's collection", praising the cast . The remastered CD includes two recordings not on the original album, the bottle dance from the wedding scene and "Rumor" performed by Beatrice Arthur . Kenrick writes that while the original Broadway cast version is the clear first choice among recordings of this musical, he also likes the Columbia Records studio cast album with Bernardi as Tevye; the film soundtrack, although he feels that the pace drags a bit; and some of the numerous foreign versions, including the Israeli, German and Japanese casts . </P> <P> The musical's popularity has led to numerous references in popular media and elsewhere . The show or its songs have been parodied and covered widely: </P> <P> Parodies relating to the show have included Antenna on the Roof (Mad Magazine #156, January 1973), which speculated about the lives of Tevye's descendants living in an assimilated 1970s suburban America . The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society published a musical theatre and album parody of Fiddler on the Roof called A Shoggoth on the Roof, which incorporates the works of H.P. Lovecraft . In the film Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Robin Williams parodies "Matchmaker". </P>

Original cast of fiddler on the roof on broadway