A terrifically tight, partially recast ensemble is again led by warm, beautifully-sung performances from Broadway veteran Adam Dannheisser as a bullish version of the village milkman Tevye – comically aggrieved by his five daughters and lack of wealth – and Lara Pulver as his brisk wife Golde. Tom Scutt’s ski-slope roof of waving corn, on which Raphael Papo’s fiddler has his precariously symbolic base, has sadly been trimmed and levelled to fit indoors, however: and we miss the original, surprising connection to the air and the soil.
Fiddler on the Roof at the Barbican: ‘This is a must-see’
