Fiddler on the Roof
joseph stein
['kazuo koike', 'harvey pekar', 'anant pai', 'koushun takami', 'pu songling', 'primo levi', 'mommsen', 'michael lewis', 'pascal', 'carol ryrie brink', 'washington irving', 'john stuart mill', 'tim powers', 'qu yuan', 'mia ikumi', 'art spiegelman', 'rachel field', 'hanns heinz ewers', 'lord byron', 'strugatsky brothers', 'wilbert awdry', 'dostoevsky', 'ludwig van beethoven', 'strabo', 'michael frayn', 'hans christian andersen', 'robert jordan', 'yasunari kawabata', 'friedrich schiller', 'haeckel', 'bill gates', 'herodotus', 'guy vanderhaeghe', 'yukio mishima', 'michel houellebecq', 'charlotte perkins gilman', 'sir arthur conan doyle', 'fyodor dostoyevsky', 'sir francis bacon', 'harry harrison', 'jacqueline wilson', 'ueda akinari', 'ariosto', 'bernhard schlink', 'natsuki takaya', 'arthur sullivan', 'ben hecht', 'apollinaire', 'islamic prophet', 'john updike', 'laura hillenbrand', 'patricia highsmith', 'carolus linnaeus', 'james agee', 'michel de montaigne', 'david mamet', 'georges simenon', 'murasaki shikibu', 'lucian', 'aleksey nikolayevich tolstoy', 'zarathustra', 'paul french', 'helen mccarthy', 'iain banks', 'irvine welsh', 'corneille', 'anton szandor lavey', 'stallman', 'ian rankin', 'diana gabaldon', 'jorge luis borges', 'dennis wheatley', 'alfred bester', 'suzanne collins', 'international phonetic association', 'kaori yuki', 'kingsley amis', 'joseph delaney', 'peter shaffer', 'sergey lukyanenko', 'parabasis', 'franklin roosevelt', 'norman spinrad', 'jancis robinson', 'plath', 'wendy wasserstein', 'tatian', 'john horton conway', 'alex ross', 'leslie charteris', 'laurence sterne', 'satyajit ray', 'bapsi sidhwa', 'jonathan harr', 'susan sontag', 'conor mcpherson', 'henry david thoreau', 'vaikom muhammad basheer', 'sandy wilson']
Fiddler on the Roof
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 1905. 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 cultural traditions as outside influences encroach upon the family's lives. He must cope both with the strong-willed actions of his three older daughters, who wish to marry for love – each one's choice of a husband moves further away from the customs of his faith – and with the edict of the Tsar that evicts the Jews from their village. The original Broadway production of the show, which opened in 1964, had the first musical theatre run in history to surpass 3,000 performances. Fiddler held the record for the longest-running Broadway musical for almost 10 years until Grease surpassed its run. It remains Broadway's sixteenth longest-running show in history. The production was extraordinarily profitable and highly acclaimed. It won nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical, score, book, direction and choreography. It spawned four Broadway revivals and a highly successful 1971 film adaptation, and the show has enjoyed enduring international popularity. It is also a very popular choice for school and community productions.