Masked Matinees: Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen

The Coolidge is pleased to offer fully masked, reduced capacity matinee shows of first-run films.

We're offering select showtimes of our first-run films sold at 25% capacity, giving the limited audience plenty of room to socially distance. Masks will be mandatory for the entire show, and no concessions will be sold.

Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic.

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim puts us in the director's chair and in Jewison's heart and mind, drawing on behind-the-scenes footage and never-before-seen stills as well as original interviews with Jewison, Topol (Tevye), composer John Williams, production designer Robert F. Boyle, film critic Kenneth Turan, lyricist Sheldon Harnick, and actresses Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh, and Neva Small (Tevye’s daughters).

The film explores how the experience of making "Fiddler” deepens Jewison as an artist and revives his soul.