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• This Weekly Blast contains:

A) an ESSAY previewing upcoming movie musicals;

B) PETER FILICHIA on Fiddler on the Roof: Peter talks about the show’s most famous song and how it represents the key to the show — as well as what makes a good Tevye;

C) a NEWS ROUNDUP;

D) a Broadway Maven YouTube GEM about Sondheim’s “middle period”;

E) a REVIEW of an online educational platform with Broadway content; and

F) LAST BLASTs about Tootsie and Les Misérables.