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On the Aisle with Harry Haun
Fine-Tuning Fierstein...Re-Spinning Teams...Stumping Trump

Harvey Fierstein's previous Tony-winning performances--drag queen (Torch Song Trilogy) and domestic goddess (Hairspray)--ill-prepare you for his present assignment: patriarch. In Fiddler on the Roof, he's Tevye, the dairyman Everyman of Anatevka, circa a century ago--and light years removed from his Tony-nominated predecessor, Alfred Molina. "There was an adjustment period," admits one of Fiddler's filial flock (Melissa Bohon). "We were stuck in the old way and had to blend with the new cast. It's not a different show, just a different energy." Tough commute that Producers company had, all the way next door to Angus McIndoe's and up some stairs to the party celebrating the show's new set of title players: Richard Kind, late of Sly Fox, and Alan Ruck, arriving from the road in full (Leo) Bloom with Performance #329. They go back--before TV's "Spin City"--to The Windy City, where the went for the

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same roles. A prior history also helps Jonathan Freeman and Brooks Ashmanskas, who did How To Succeed before they became Roger DeBris and Carmen Ghia. Among the fire-nighters at The Zipper for Under the Bridge, Kathie Lee Gifford's recent musical about the poor people of Paris, were some rich people of  Manhattan--Rosie O-Donnell and "The Apprentice's" Donald Trump among them. At intermission, I casually moseyes over to The Donald and Mrs. Trump, Melania Knauss, for a sound bite. "I'm Harry Haun of Playbill. Are you having a good time?" and "You've known Kathie Lee for a few years, haven't you?" and "Did you have any idea she was such a good lyricist?" and on like that. Throughut, he was polite--in his wary/warm sort of way--and then he said, "You own Playbill?" I whittled that down to proper size, and his interest dipped with it. I wasn't fired, but I was definitely faded. 

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(clockwise from top): The Producers welcomes Richard Kind [[?]] and Alan Ruck to the cast at an Angus McIndoe bash; a hirsute Harvey Fierstein at his first-night Fiddler party; Donald Trump and Melania Knauss congratulate Kathie Lee Gifford (center) at Giffor's Under the Bridge opening.

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