Fiddler on the Roof
Music by Jerry Bock
Book by Joseph Stein
Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Book by Joseph Stein
Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Directed by Linda Johnson
Music Direction by Denny Vaupel
The heart-warming story of the milkman Tevye, his family and the village of Anatevka in Czarist Russia where faith and love inspire a generation. Tevye’s equilibrium is constantly being challenged by his poverty, the prejudicial attitudes of non-Jews, and the romantic entanglements of his five daughters. Whenever the weight of the world becomes too much for him, Tevye carries on lengthy conversations with God, who does not answer but is at least more willing to listen than the milkman’s remonstrative wife Golde. After arranging a marriage between his oldest daughter Tzeitel and wealthy butcher Lazar Wolf, Tevye is forced to do some quick rearranging when the girl falls in love with poor tailor Motel Kamzoil. Fancying himself more broad-minded than his gentile oppressors, Tevye cannot accept the notion that his other daughter Chava would want to marry Fyedka, a non-Jew. And after shouting the praises of “tradition,” Tevye must change his tune-and his entire life-when he and his neighbors are forced out of Anatevka by the Czar’s minions.
One of the most successful and long-running musicals of all time, includes such songs as: “If I Were a Rich Man”, “Matchmaker, Matchmaker”, “Tradition” and “Sunrise Sunset”.
One of the most successful and long-running musicals of all time, includes such songs as: “If I Were a Rich Man”, “Matchmaker, Matchmaker”, “Tradition” and “Sunrise Sunset”.
