Joanna Merlin, original Tzeitel in Broadway’s ‘Fiddler,’ dies at 92
In an interview for the 2016 PBS documentary series “American Masters,” Merlin said she auditioned eight times before the director of “Fiddler,” Jerome Robbins.
Fiddler on the Roof(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA