Fiddler On The Roof Opening Dialogue

A fiddler on the roof.

Fiddler on the roof opening dialogue.

You may ask why do we stay up there if it s so dangerous well we stay because anatevka is our home. Fiddler on the roof 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. But here in our little village of anatevka you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant simple tune without breaking his neck. It is a staple in high school drama clubs across the united states and the world.

This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay and or viewings of fiddler on the roof. Fiddler on the roof synopsis. It is based on tevye and his daughters or tevye the dairyman and other tales by sholem aleichem the story centers on tevye the father of five daughters and his attempts to maintain his jewish religious and. It is hard not to have seen the 1971 film adaptation of fiddler on the roof or a stage performance of the play.

Fiddler on the roof is the 1971 film version of the stage musical based on the stories of sholom aleichem tevye the milkman is a jewish peasant in pre revolutionary russia coping with the day to day problems of shtetl life his jewish traditions his family wife and daughters and state sanctioned programs. At the beginning of the twentieth century jews and orthodox christians live in the little village of anatevka in the pre revolutionary russia of the czars. 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. Many communities have a local playhouse that has at one time or another put on a production of this recurrent musical.

But in our little village of anatevka you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out. A fiddler on the roof.