I guess March is a time for musicals. Just two weeks after Atom Egoyan tackled Norman Jewison’s Jesus Christ Superstar for his episode of Someone Else’s Movie, here comes Ali Weinstein — whose wonderful, melancholy documentary Your Tomorrow was one of our world premieres at TIFF last fall — with Jewison’s other big studio musical, Fiddler on the Roof!

Made two years before Superstar, it’s a much more ambitious picture in terms of scale, a properly epic transposition of the Broadway musical shot on location in the former Yugoslavia with a cast harvested from various stage productions and the Yiddish theater. It was a critical and commercial hit, it was nominated for eight Oscars and won three (including John Williams’ first), and it’s endured for more than half a century among the Jewish diaspora as a treasured cultural artifact, which is how Ali and I were both exposed to it as children.

And weirdly enough I do manage to find a link to Your Tomorrow … which is also ultimately about preserving the memory of a time and place to which we can no longer return. It’ll be streaming as of 9am ET this Friday, March 21st, on the TVOntario YouTube channel, and it’s airing on the old-school TVO at 9pm ET on Sunday the 23rd. It even ends with a musical number. Don’t miss it.

And don’t miss the podcast, either! Subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts or your podcatcher of choice, or download the episode directly from the web and enjoy our weirdly personal reflections as you make your rounds and await a sign — any sign — that your god is listening.

And then why not check out the latest edition of Shiny Things, where I spun up Arrow Video’s truly incredible new release of William Friedkin’s Cruising — a movie that never really clicked with audiences, for all sorts of reasons, but now plays like one of his most complex and fascinating pictures. But surely you’re already  a subscriber. Aren’t you?

Also, if you’re reading this on Tuesday the 18th there are still a few tickets available for tonight’s Secret Movie Club, which is a good one and promises to have a very lively Q&A afterward. Come on down!