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The Fiddler is a metaphor for survival in a life of uncertainty, precarious as a fiddleron a roof 'trying to scratch out a pleasant simple tune without breaking his neck.'

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Fiddler on the roof movie poster broadway

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What religion are these characters??

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cast and crew

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Choreographer Chris Crowthers talks about recreating Jerome Robbins' original FIDDLER ON THE ROOF choreography to fit the intimate Loft Theatre stage.With scenes from rehearsal and the production. FIDDLER ON THE ROOF runs through November 30 at The Loft Theatre in downtown Dayton. Tickets are on sale at humanracetheatre.org.

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(Chorus)
Tradition, tradition... tradition
Tradition, tradition... tradition

(Tevye)
"Because of our traditions, we've kept our balance for many, many years. Here in Anatevka we have traditions for everything... how to eat, how to sleep, even, how to wear clothes. For instance, we always keep our heads covered and always wear a little prayer shawl... This shows our constant devotion to God. You may ask, how did this tradition start? I'll tell you - I don't know. But it's a tradition... Because of our traditions, everyone knows who he is and what God expects him to do."

(Tevye & Papas)
Who day and night
Must scramble for a living
Feed the wife and children
Say his daily prayers
And who has the right
As master of the house
To have the final word at home?

(All)
The papa, the papas... tradition
The papa, the papas... tradition

(Golde & Mamas)
Who must know the way to make a proper home
A quiet home, a kosher home
Who must raise a family and run the home
So papa's free to read the holy book?

(All)
The mama, the mama... tradition
The mama, the mama... tradition

(Sons)
At three I started Hebrew school
At ten I learned a trade
I hear they picked a bride for me
I hope... she's pretty

(All)
The sons, the sons... tradition
The sons, the sons... tradition

(Daughters)
And who does mama teach
To mend and tend and fix
Preparing me to marry
Whoever papa picks?

(All)
The daughters, the daughters... tradition

(Tevye)
"I have five daughters!"

(All)
The daughters, the daughters... tradition

(Repeat as round)

(Papas)
The papas

(Mamas)
The mamas

(Sons)
The sons

(Daughters)
The daughters

(All)
Tradition

(Papas)
The papas

(Mamas)
The mamas

(Sons)
The sons

(Daughters)
The daughters

(All)
Tradition

(Tevye)
"And in the circle of our little village, we have always had our special types. For instance, Yente, the matchmaker..."

(Yente)
"Avram, I have a perfect match for your son. A wonderful girl."

(Avram)
"Who is it?"

(Yente)
"Ruchel, the shoemaker's daughter."

(Avram)
"Ruchel? But she can hardly see. She's almost blind."

(Yente)
"Tell the truth, Avram, is your son so much to look at? The way she sees and the way he looks, it's a perfect match."

(Tevye)
"And Nahum, the beggar..."

(Beggar)
"Alms for the poor, alms for the poor..."

(Lazar)
"Here, Reb Nahum, is one kopek."

(Beggar)
"One kopek? Last week you geve me two kopeks."

(Lazar)
"I had a bad week."

(Beggar)
"So, if you had a bad week, why should I suffer?"

(Tevye)
"And most important, our beloved Rabbi..."

"Rabbi, may I ask you a question?"

"Certainly, my son."

"Is there a proper blessing for the Tsar?"

"A blessing for the tsar? Of course. May God bless and keep the Tsar... far away from us!"

"And among ourselves, we get along perfectly well. Of course, there was the time when he sold him a horse, but delivered a mule, but that's all settled now. Now we live in simple peace and harmony and..."

"It was a horse."

"It was a mule."

Horse!
Mule!
Horse!
Mule!
Tradition, tradition... tradition
Tradition, tradition... tradition

"Tradition. Without our traditions, our lives would be as shaky as... as a fiddler on the roof!"

Read more: John Williams - PROLOGUE Lyrics | MetroLyrics

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Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles-
God took a Daniel once again,
Stood by his and side and- miracle of miracles-
Walked him through the lions den!

Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles-
I was afraid that God would frown,
But like he did so long ago, in Jericho,
God just made a wall fall down!
When Moses softened Pharaohs heart, that was a miracle.
When God made the waters of the Red Sea part, that was a miracle too!
But of all God's miracles large and small,
The most miraculous one of all
Is that out of a worthless lump of clay,
God has made a man today.

Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles-
God took a tailor by the hand
Turned him around and- miracle of miracles- led him to the Promised Land!

When David slew Goliath (yaaaaaa!), that was a miracle. (do do do do do)
When God gave us manna in the wilderness, that was a miracle too.
But of all God's miracles large and small,
The most miraculous one of all
Is the one I thought could never be:
God has given you to me!

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1.The original production opened on Broadway on September 22, 1964.  (Happy anniversary, Tevye and Golde!)

2.Fiddler on the Roof became the first Broadway musical to run 3,000 performances, finally closed with a total of 3,242 performances.  The West End production ran 2,030 performances.

3..  The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society wrote a Lovecraft-inspired parody called A Shoggoth on the Roof.  It is credited to He Who (for Legal Reasons)  Must Not be Named.

4.  In the original Broadway production, the role of Perchik was played by Bert Convy, future game show host.  (Tattletales, most famously.  Or infamously.)

5.  For the 1971 film version, Richard Dreyfuss, Rob Reiner and John Ritter all auditioned for the part of the tailor Motel Kamzoil, which eventually went to Leonard Frey.  (Should’ve tried harder, guys.)

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Top 5 songs in fiddler on the roof

1. Do You Love Me?

2. Matchmaker

3. Miracle Of Miracles

4. Sabbath Prayer

5. Tradition

Fiddler on the Roof soundtrack song lyrics

Anatevka

Anatevka Lyrics

Chavaleh

Do You Love Me?

Far From The Home I Love

If I Were A Rich Man

Matchmaker

Miracle Of Miracles

Now I Have Everything

Sabbath Prayer

Sunrise, Sunset

Sunrise, Sunset

Tevye's Dream

Tevye's Monologue

The Dream

The Rumor

To Life!

Tradition

Turnaround

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As the acclaimed musical turns 50 years old this week, relive the tradition with these interesting factoids

smithsonian.com

No one would've guessed that a musical, based on a series of Yiddish short stories would become so popular. Yet today, everyone knows " If I Were a Rich Man," and "Sunrise, Sunset" still brings a tear to the eye after all these years. In honor of the anniversary, here are six vital facts to bring to the next mitzvah, brought to you by the author of Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof.

1) Sholem Aleichem is actually a pseudonym -- In Yiddish, the name literally translates as "peace be with you," but colloquially means, simply, "hello!" The sophisticated writer (born Sholem Rabinowitz) used this pen name to cast himself as a simple man of the people, as familiar as a common greeting, and that's just how he was received. The authors of Fiddler fell in love with the humor and humanity found in Aleichem's writing.

2) The original production played 900 sell outs (26 months). By then, the show had returned a profit of 352 percent to investors; it would eventually run more than 3200 performances. Not bad for a show that struggled to find a producer. One after another turned down the script, worrying that a story about a Jewish family set in Czarist Russia in 1905 would be too narrow a draw.

3) The famous "Bottle Dance" is not a traditional Jewish folk dance but the razzle-dazzle creation of director-choreographer Jerome Robbins. Robbins had previously staged West Side Story and Gypsy. He did "field research" for Fiddler by attending Orthodox Jewish weddings and festivals where he was thrilled with the men's dancing. He observed one man entertaining a crowd by tottering around with a bottle on his head pretending to be drunk. Robbins took that image and elaborated to create the Broadway showstopper featuring four dancers performing precise, electrifying moves.

4) Fiddler was a sensation in Tokyo, of all places. Since its debut there in 1967, it has been produced in Japan hundreds of times, including a major production just last year. The librettist, the late Joe Stein, loved to tell about a producer there who asked how Americans could understand a story that was "so Japanese." Within a decade, Fiddler had played in two-dozen countries, finding universal appeal in its themes of generational conflict, the triumph of love and the dynamic struggle between tradition and change.

5) Fiddler has been reinvented with a Dominican twist. Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony-award-winning rap musical In the Heights, set in the upper Manhattan immigrant neighborhood of Washington Heights, features a similar tightly knit community in the throes of change. Miranda loves Fiddler so much, he staged a number from it for his own wedding.

6) Lyricist Sheldon Harnick has adapted "Sunrise, Sunset" to fit gay ceremonies at a minister's request. The ballad, which Tevye and his wife, Golde, sing as they see their first daughter marry, remains a wedding staple.

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Six Things You May Not Have Known About Fiddler on the Roof

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A handy resource page for your Fiddler on the Roof production

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A handy resource page for your Fiddler on the Roof production

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(spoken)

Tevye:
AAAh! help help!

Golde:
Tevye? Tevye wake up

(Tevye screams)

What's the matter with you? Why are you howling like that?

Tevye:
Where is she? Where is she?

Golde:
Where is who? What are you talking about?

Tevye:
Fruma Sarah, the butcher's first wife. She was standing there a minute ago!

Golde:
What's the matter with you Tevye? Fruma Sarah's been dead for years! You must have been dreaming. Tell me what
you dreamed and I'll tell you what it meant.

Tevye:
All right, only... don't be frightened! In the beginning I dreamt that we were having a celebration of some kind.
Everybody we knew was there. Musicians too. Suddenly, in comes your grandma Tzietl, may she rest in peace.
Naturally, I went up to greet her, and she said:

(sung)

Grandma Tzietl:
A blessing on your head
(Mazel Tov, Mazel Tov)
To see a daughter wed
(Mazel Tov, Mazel Tov)
And such a son-in-law
Like no-one ever saw
The tailor Motel Camzoil

Golde:
(spoken)
Motel?

Grandma Tzietl:
(sung)
A worthy boy is he
(Mazel Tov, Mazel Tov)
Of pious family
(Mazel Tov, Mazel Tov)
They named him after my
Dear uncle Mordachai
The tailor Motel Camzoil

(spoken)
Golde:
A tailor? She must have heard wrong. She meant a butcher.

(sung)
Tevye:
You must have heard wrong Grandma
There's no tailor
You mean the butcher Grandma
By the name of Lazer-Wolfe

Grandma Tzietl:
Noooo!
I mean a tailor Tevye
My great-grandchild
My little Tzietl who you named for me
Motel's bride was meant to be!

For such a match I prayed
(Mazel Tov, Mazel Tov)
In heaven it was made
(Mazel Tov, Mazel Tov)
A fine upstanding boy
A comfort and a joy
The tailor Motel Camzoil

(spoken)
Golde:
But we announced it already!
We made a bargain with the butcher!

(sung)
Tevye:
But we announced it Grandma
To our neighbors
We made a bargain Grandma
With the butcher Lazer-Wolfe

Grandma Tzietl:
Noooo No!
So you announced it Tevye
That's your headache
And as for Lazer-Wolfe I say to you
Tevye, that's your headache too!

(Company)

A blessing on your house
Mazel Tov, Mazel Tov
Imagine such a spouse
Mazel Tov, Mazel Tov
And such a son-in-law
Like no-one ever saw
The tailor Motel Camzoil

Tevye
(spoken)
But he's a butcher!

Comapny:
(sung)
The tailor Motel Camzoil

Tevye:
(spoken)
His name is Lazer-Wolfe

Company
(sung)
The tailor Motel Camzoil

Tevye:
The tailor Motel Camzoil

Company:
Sha!
Sha!

Look who is this? Who is this? Who comes here?
Who
Who
Who
Who
What woman is this?
By righteous anger shaken

Could it be?
Sure!
Yes it could!
Why not?
Who could be mistaken?

It's the butcher's wife come from beyond the grave
It's the butcher's dear, darling, departed wife
Fruma Sarah
Fruma Sarah
Fruma Sarah
Fruma Sarah
Fruma Sarah
Fruma Sarah
Fruma Sarah

Fruma Sarah:
Tevye!! Tevye!!!!!
What is this about your daughter marrying my husband?

Company:
He's her husband!

Fruma Sarah:
Would you do this to your friend and neighbor Fruma Sarah?
(Fruma Sarah!)

Have you no consideration for a woman's feelings?
(Woman's feelings!)

Handing over my belongings to a total stranger!
(Total stranger!)

How? How can you let your daughter to take my place?
Live in my house
Carry my keys
And wear my clothes
Pearls
How?

Company:
How can you allow your daughter to take her place?
(Pearls!)
House!
(Pearls!)
Keys!
(Pearls)
Clothes
(Pearls!)
How?

Fruma Sarah:
Such a learned man as Tevye wouldn't let it happen!
(Let it happen!)
Tell me that it isn't tue and then I wouldn't worry!
(Wouldn't worry!)
Say you didn't give your blessing to your daughter's marriage
(Daughter's marriage)
Let me tell you what would follow such a fataled wedding
(fataled wedding!)

If Tzietl marries Lazer-Wolfe
I pity them both!
She'd live with him three weeks
And when three weeks are up
I'll come to her by night
I'll take her by the throat and
This I'll give your Tzietl
That I'll give your Tzietl
This I'll give your Tzietl
That I'll give your Tzietl

Here's my wedding present if she marries Lazer-Wolfe!

(Company and Tevye scream)
Golde:
Aye
Aye
Aye
Aye

Such a dark and evil spirit!Let it fall into the river, let it sink into the earth!
Such a dark and horrible dream!
And to think, it was brought on by that butcher!
If my grandma Tzietl, may she rest in peace,
Took the time to come all the way from the other world to tell us
About the tailor all I can say is that it's for the best.
And couldn't possibly get any better. Amen.

Tevye:
Amen

(sung)

Golde:
A blessing on my head
Mazel Tov, Mazel Tov
My Grandma Tzietl said
Mazel Tov, Mazel Tov
We'll have a son-in-law
Like no-one ever saw
The tailor Motel Camzoil

Tevye:
We haven't got the man
(Mazel Tov, Mazel Tov)
We had when we began
(Mazel Tov, Mazel Tov)
But since your grandma came
She'll marry... what's his name?

Golde:
The tailor, Motel Camzoil

Both:
The tailor Motel Camzoil

(repeats up to 12x)

source: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/soundtracks/f/fiddlerontherooflyrics/tevyesdreamlyrics.html

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During the past week we have been viewing Fiddler on the Roof, a musical set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. We've been introduced to the interesting patriarch of five daughters, named Tevye. His attempts to keep his family and its Jewish religious traditions are thwarted by changes in the new generation. Tevye is faced with strong constitutions in his eldest daughters, who have inherited much of his strong will; however, he is challenged by their desires and choice of husbands which in part, separates them from the customs of his faith. With an edict from the Tsar, Tevye is then faced with expulsion from his village and his home. Choose a central theme that is moving throughout the musical and discuss how that theme advances your understanding of a universal idea and what makes the musical the classic as it is.

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Fiddler on the Roof: Conflict in Generations

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During the past week we have been viewing Fiddler on the Roof, a musical set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. We've been introduced to the interesting patriarch of five daughters, named Tevye. His attempts to keep his family and its Jewish religious traditions are thwarted by changes in the new generation.

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Chaim Topol
Leonard Frey
Paul Michael Glaser
Norma Crane
Rosalind Harris
Michele Marsh
Zvee Scooler
Molly Picon
Neva Small
Paul Mann
Ray Lovelock
Elaine Edwards
Louis Zorich

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Tevye
Tzeitel
Perchik
Lazar Wolf
Yente
Fyedka
Shprintze
Fruma-Sarah
Mordcha
Motel
Chava

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Tradition lyrics by Fiddler on the Roof Cast from Fiddler on the Roof soundtrack.

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Tradition lyrics: [TEVYE] Tradition, tradition! Tradition! Tradition, tradition! Tradition! [TEVYE &amp; PAPAS] Who, day and night, must scramble for a living, Feed a wife and children, say his daily prayers? And who has th

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Revolution?

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Russian Revolution of 1905, uprising that was instrumental in convincing Tsar Nicholas II to attempt the transformation of the Russian government from an autocracy into a constitutional monarchy. For several years before 1905 and especially after the humiliating Russo-Japanese War (1904-05), diverse social groups demonstrated their discontent with the Russian social and political system. Their protests ranged from liberal rhetoric to strikes and included student riots and terrorist assassinations. These efforts, coordinated by the Union of Liberation, culminated in the massacre of peaceful demonstrators in the square before the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, on Bloody Sunday (January 9 [January 22, New Style], 1905).

In St. Petersburg and other major industrial centres, general strikes followed. Nicholas responded in February by announcing his intention to establish an elected assembly to advise the government. But his proposal did not satisfy the striking workers, the peasants (whose uprisings were spreading), or even the liberals of the zemstvos (local government organs) and of the professions, who by April were demanding that a constituent assembly be convened.

The revolt spread to non-Russian parts of the empire, particularly to Poland, Finland, the Baltic provinces, and Georgia, where it was reinforced by nationalist movements. In some areas the rebellion was met by violent opposition from the antirevolutionary Black Hundreds, who attacked the socialists and staged pogroms against the Jews. But the armed forces joined in on the side of the revolt as well: army units situated along the Trans-Siberian Railroad line rioted, and in June the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutinied in the harbour at Odessa.

The government decree on August 6 (August 19) announcing election procedures for the advisory assembly stimulated even more protest, which increased through September. The rebellion reached its peak in October-November. A railroad strike, begun on October 7 (October 20), swiftly developed into a general strike in most of the large cities.

The first workers' council, or soviet, acting as a strike committee, was formed at Ivanovo-Vosnesensk; another, the St. Petersburg soviet, was formed on October 13 (October 26). It initially directed the general strike; but, as social democrats, especially Mensheviks, joined, it assumed the character of a revolutionary government. Similar soviets were organized in Moscow, Odessa, and other cities.

The magnitude of the strike finally convinced Nicholas to act. On the advice of Sergey Yulyevich Witte, he issued the October Manifesto (October 17 [October 30], 1905), which promised a constitution and the establishment of an elected legislature ( Duma). He also made Witte president of the new Council of Ministers (i.e., prime minister).

These concessions did not meet the radical opposition's demands for an assembly or a republic. The revolutionaries refused to yield; even the liberals declined to participate in Witte's government. But some moderates were satisfied, and many workers, interpreting the October Manifesto as a victory, returned to their jobs. This was enough to break the opposition's coalition and to weaken the St. Petersburg soviet.

At the end of November the government arrested the soviet's chairman, the Menshevik G.S. Khrustalev-Nosar, and on December 3 (December 16) occupied its building and arrested Leon Trotsky and others. But in Moscow a new general strike was called; barricades were erected, and there was fighting in the streets before the revolution was put down. In Finland order was restored by removing some unpopular legislation, but special military expeditions were sent to Poland, the Baltic provinces, and Georgia, where the suppression of the rebellions was particularly bloody. By the beginning of 1906 the government had regained control of the Trans-Siberian Railroad and of the army, and the revolution was essentially over.

The uprising failed to replace the tsarist autocracy with a democratic republic or even to convoke a constituent assembly, and most of the revolutionary leaders were placed under arrest. It did, however, force the imperial regime to institute extensive reforms, the most important of which were the Fundamental Laws (1906), which functioned as a constitution, and the creation of the Duma, which fostered the development of legal political activity and parties.

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Russian Revolution of 1905, uprising that was instrumental in convincing Tsar Nicholas II to attempt the transformation of the Russian government from an autocracy into a constitutional monarchy. For several years before 1905 and especially after the humiliating Russo-Japanese War (1904-05), diverse social groups demonstrated their discontent with the Russian social and political system.