Fiddler On The Roof (Film adaptation, Thomas Kail to direct)

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EXCLUSIVE: MGM will turn the iconic stage musical Fiddler On The Roof into a feature film adaptation that will be directed by the red hot director Thomas Kail, who’ll produce with Dan Jinks and Aaron Harnick. Steven Levenson will write it, based on the musical that opened on Broadway in 1964 and won nine Tony Awards.

The musical features music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and book by Joseph Stein, and the original was directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins. Its Tony haul included Best Musical, Best Book and Best Score of a Musical, Best Director and Best Choreographer and it played more than 3000 performances. The production has been revived on Broadway multiple times and continues to be performed around the globe. The musical was turned into a 1964 Norman Jewison-directed film by United Artists with Topol playing Tevye. The film won three Oscars out of eight nominations.

Kail takes the job after directing the off-Broadway and Broadway collaborations with Lin-Manuel Miranda of In the Heights and Hamilton, winning the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for the latter. He directed and produced the live capture film of Hamilton that Disney acquired in a precedent-setting $75 million acquisition by Disney. Source