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Matchmaker fiddler on the roof pdf Continue This article is about the 1964 musical. For the film, see Fiddler on the Roof (film). 1964 Musical Violinist at RoofPlaybill from the original Broadway productionMusicJerry BockLyricsSheldon HarnickBookJoseph SteinBasisTevye and his daughter Scholem AleichemProductions 1964 Broadway 1967 West End 1971 film 1976 Broadway revival 1981 Broadway revival 1983 West End revival 1990 Broadway revival 1990 Broadway 1994 West End Revival 2003 UK Tour 2004 Broadway Revival 2007 West End Revival 2008 UK Tour 2009 US Tour 2015 Broadway Revival 2018 US Tour 2018 Off Broadway Revival 2019 West End Revival Awards 1965 Tony Award for Best Musical 1965 Tony Award for Best Result 1965 Tony Award for Best Book 1990 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical Violinist on a Rooftop Musical With Music by Jerry Bock, Lyrics by Sheldon Harnik, and a book by Joseph Stein, set in the Palais de imperial Russia in or circa 1905. It is based on Tavier and his daughters (or Tavier The Milkman) and other tales by Scholem Aleichem. The story focuses on Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attempts to preserve his Jewish religious and cultural traditions as the external influence encroaches on family life. He must cope with both the willry actions of his three eldest daughters, who want to marry for love - each choice of husband departs from the customs of their Jewish faith and heritage - and with the decree of the king, who evicts the Jews from their village. The original Broadway production of the show, which opened in 1964, had the first ever musical theater, surpassing 3,000 performances. The violinist held the record for the longest Broadway musical in nearly 10 years until Grease surpassed its run. The production was extremely profitable and highly appreciated. He won nine Tony Awards, including best musical, score, book, directing and choreography. It spawned five Broadway revivals and a highly successful 1971 film adaptation and enjoys enduring international popularity. It was also a popular choice for school and community productions. The Fiddler on the Roof is based on Tavier (or Tavier The Milkman) and his daughters, a series of stories by Scholem Aleichem, which he wrote in Yiddish between 1894 and 1914 about Jewish life in a village in the Pale settlement of imperial Russia at the turn of the 20th century. She is also influenced by life with people, Mark Sborowski and Elizabeth Herzog. Aleichem wrote a dramatic adaptation of the stories he left unfinished after his death, but which was produced in Yiddish in 1919 by the Yiddish Art Theatre and filmed in the 1930s. In the late 1950s, the musical, based on stories called Tevye and His Daughters, was produced by Off-Broadway's Arnold Pearl. Rogers and Hammerstein, and then Mike Todd briefly considered bringing this musical to the but refused the idea. Violinist Marc Chagall investors and some in the media are concerned that Fiddler on the Roof may be considered too Jewish to attract a mainstream audience. Other critics felt that it was too culturally disinfected, medium and superficial; Philip Roth, writing in The New Yorker, called it shtetl kitsch. For example, he portrays a local Russian officer as sympathetic rather than violent and violent, as Sholom Aleichem described him. Aleichem's stories ended with Tebye alone, his wife dead and daughters scattered; at the end of The Violinist, the family members are alive, and most of them emigrate together to America. The show found the right balance for its time, even if not entirely authentic, to become one of the first popular post-Holocaust images of the vanished world of Eastern European Jews. Harold Prince replaced the original producer Fred Coe and brought in director/choreographer Jerome Robbins. The writers and Robbins considered naming the musical Tevye before landing on the title offered by various paintings by Marc Chagall (1924), Le Mort (1924), The Fiddler (1912), which also inspired the original stage design. Contrary to popular belief, the name of the musical does not refer to any particular picture. During rehearsals, one of the stars, the Jewish actor zero Mirel, feuded with Robbins, whom he disrespected because Robbins testified before the House Anti-American Activities Committee and hid his Jewish heritage from the public. Other actors also had a ride with Robbins, who reportedly abused the cast, drove the designers crazy and strained Hal Prince's good character. The Law on Summary I of Teevier, a poor Jewish milkman with five daughters, explains the customs of Jews in the Russian of the Anathevka St. in 1905, where their lives are as unstable as the perch of a violinist on the roof (Tradition). At Tjevier's house, everyone is busy preparing for a Saturday meal. His sharp wife, Gold, orders his daughters, Ceyel, Hoedel, Chave, Spiritz and Belke, about their tasks. Yente, a village matchmaker, arrives to tell Golde that Lazar Wolf, a wealthy butcher, an older widower than Tevye, wants to bring into the eyes of Tzeitel, the eldest daughter. The next two daughters, Hoedel and Chava, are delighted with Ente's visit, but Ceytel illustrates how this can have bad results (Matchmaker, Swah). A girl from a poor family has to take everything that husband Yente brings, but Tzeitel wants to marry his childhood friend, Motel Tailor. Tevye delivers the milk by pulling the trolley himself like his horse lame. He asks God: Who would be hurt if I were a rich man? The bookseller tells Tevye news from the outside world of pogroms and exiles. The stranger, Pepper, hears their conversation and scolds them for not nothing but talking. Men fire Pepper Perchik radical, but Tevye invites him home for the Sabbath and offers him food and room in exchange for training his two youngest daughters. Gold tells Teuvier to meet Lazarus after Saturday, but doesn't tell him why, knowing that Teuvier doesn't love Lazarus. Ceytel is afraid that Ente will find her husband before the Motel asks Teuvier for a hand. But the Motel resists: he is afraid of Thevier's temper, and tradition says that matchmaker arranges marriages. The motel is also very poor and hoards to buy a sewing machine before he approaches Tevye to show that he can support his wife. The family is going to a Saturday prayer. After Saturday, Tevye meets Lazarus for a drink in a village hotel, mistakenly suggesting that Lazarus wants to buy his cow. As soon as the misunderstanding clears up, Tewier agrees to let Lazarus marry Ceytel - with a rich butcher his daughter will never want. They all join the celebration of Lazarus' good luck; even Russian youth in the hotel join the celebration and show their dancing skills (To life). Outside the hotel, Tewier happens to be a Russian constable who has jurisdiction over Jews in the city. The constable warns him that in the coming weeks there will be a small informal demonstration (a euphemism for a small pogrom). The constable sympathizes with the Jewish community, but is powerless to prevent violence. The next morning, after Pepper's lessons with her younger sisters, her second daughter, Tewier Hodel, ridicules Pepper's Marxist interpretation of biblical history. He, in turn, criticizes her for hanging on to the old traditions of Judaism, noting that the world is changing. To illustrate this, he dances with her, challenging the ban against opposing sexes dancing together. They're starting to fall in love. Later, the hangover Teuvier announces that he has agreed that Ceytel will marry Lazar Wolfe. Gold is overjoyed, but Ceytel is devastated and begs Teevier not to force her. The motel arrives and tells Tebye that it is perfect for Ceytel and that he and Ceitel have made each other a promise to get married. He promises that Ceytel will not starve like his wife. Tevye is stunned and outraged by this violation of tradition, but impressed by the timid tailor displaying the spine. After some soulful search (Monologue Thie), Tevier agrees to let them get married, but he worries about how to report the news to Golde. Overjoyed motel celebrates with Tzeitel (Miracle of Miracles). In bed with Gold, Tevye pretends to wake up from a nightmare. Gold offers to interpret his dream, and Tevye describes it (Dream Ofe). Grandma Golde Ceytel returns from the grave to bless the marriage of her namesake, but to a motel, not to Lazarus Wolf. Lazarus's formidable late wife, Froome-Sarah, rises from the grave to warn on the chart of severe retribution if Ceytel marries Lazarus. Teh Gold is terrified, and she quickly advises that Ceytel should marry a motel. Back from the city, Tevye's third daughter, book Chava, teased and intimidated some young pagans. One of them, Fedka, protects her by firing the others. He offers Chava a credit book, and a secret relationship begins. The wedding day of Ceitel and motel comes, and all Jews join the ceremony (Sunrise, Sunset) and celebration (Wedding Dance). Lazar gives a wonderful gift, but a dispute arises with Tevye over the violated agreement. Pepper finishes tiff by breaking another tradition: he crosses the barrier between men and women to dance with daughter Tevye Hodel. The celebration ends abruptly when a group of Russians travels to the village to perform a demonstration. They disrupt the party, damaging wedding gifts and injuring Perchik, who is trying to fight back, and inflict more destruction in the village. Tevye instructs his family to clean up the mess. Act II Fiddler on the Roof of Leo Segal in Netanya, Israel Months later, Percik tells Hodel he must return to Kiev to work on the revolution.