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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. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Dairyman ) and other tales by Sholem Aleichem .
Fiddler on the Roof is a 1971 American period musical film produced and directed by Norman Jewison from a screenplay written by Joseph Stein, based on the 1964 stage musical of the same name by Stein, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick.
Nov 3, 1971 · A musical film adaptation of the stage play about a Jewish peasant in pre-revolutionary Russia. Watch the trailer, see the cast and crew, read user and critic reviews, and find out the plot summary and trivia.
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- Drama, Family, Musical
- Norman Jewison
- 1971-11-03
Dec 24, 2006 · Fiddler on the roof - Tradition ( with subtitles ) guru006. 24.5K subscribers. 7.8M views 17 years ago.
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- Sholem Aleichem is actually a pseudonym -- In Yiddish, the name literally translates as “peace be with you,” but colloquially means, simply, “hello!”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Jun 16, 2021 · Watch the classic adaptation of the Broadway musical by Norman Jewison, starring Topol as Tevye, a Jewish milkman in Imperial Russia. The film follows Tevye's struggles to maintain his traditions and his daughters' marriages amidst social and political changes.
A musical film based on the stage play about a Jewish milkman and his five daughters in pre-revolutionary Russia. The film follows the conflicts between tradition and modernity, love and duty, and anti-Semitism and persecution in the shtetl of Anatevka.
