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VARIOUS ARTISTS

Knitting on the Roof (Knitting Factory)

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Credits

Lead Performance: Various Artists; Genres: Experimental, Soundtracks/Cast Recordings

By Wook Kim

Pushing eclecticism to its limits, Manhattan's Knitting Factory mines cover material from an unlikely source: Fiddler on the Roof. And it works: The musical's energetic ethnicity yields more than a few nuggets. Pop terrorists Negativland turn ''Tevye's Dream'' into a trippy sound pastiche; Jill Sobule's reworking of ''Sunrise, Sunset'' is appropriately understated; and the Hasidic New Wavers put a sweaty exuberance into ''Wedding Celebration.'' B

Posted Jan 07, 2000

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