Like A Fiddler On The Roof

It is based on tevye and his daughters or tevye the dairyman and other tales by sholem aleichem.

Like a fiddler on the roof. It tells the story of tevye a poor jewish milkman in the tiny russian village of anatevka. Fiddler on the roof. Fiddler on the roof is a musical with music by jerry bock lyrics by sheldon harnick and book by joseph stein set in the pale of settlement of imperial russia in or around 1905. You could say as the dairyman tevye does in fiddler on the roof that it s like a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant simple tune without breaking his neck in the off.

Tevya and others in the village are likened to fiddlers on a roof because of the difficulty in keeping their balance while trying to live out their simple lives. Fiddler on the roof was based on a series of stories written by the jewish mark twain like samuel clemens sholem rabinovich was better known by his pen name. This rousing musical based on the stories of shalom aleichem takes place in pre revolutionary russia and centers on the life of tevye topol a milkman who is trying to keep his family s traditions in place while marrying off his three older daughters. Yet times are changing and the daughters want to make their own matches breaking free of many of the constricting customs required of them by judaism.

If i were a rich man. Phillip s center for the performing arts until march 10th. Fiddler on the roof is the stage to screen adaptation of the famous musical. In hebrew sholem aleichem an.

This role is played by topol who played the character onstage in the london production of fiddler. Adaptation of the 1964 broadway musical of the same name with music composed by jerry bock lyrics by sheldon harnick and screenplay by joseph stein and based on stories by sholem aleichem. 1990 tony award for best revival of a musical.