Spring 1985: Fiddler on the Roof

 

Music by Jerry Bock
Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Book by Joseph Stein

The story of love, devotion and defiance in a poor Jewish family in Czarist Russia, Fiddler on the Roof won nine Tony Awards, including best musical, best composer and best choreography. Performed thousands of times worldwide since 1964, Fiddler on the Roof contains very well-known songs such as "Matchmaker, Matchmaker," "If I Were a Rich Man," and "Sunrise, Sunset." The story centers around Tevye, an impoverished Jewish milkman, and his five unmarried daughters in the village of Anatevka, Russia. It traces his daughters' coming of age as the oldest daughters fall in love and break with traditional ideas of courtship. Tevye's devotion to tradition is shattered by a changing world and the persecution he faces as a Jew. Fiddler is a classic story of the struggle between tradition and the power of love.

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