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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
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of "Fiddler" titled, "Fiddler, Please!", with an all-black cast dressed in "Fiddler on the Roof" costumes singing "It's Hard to Be Jewish in Russia, Yo". Chabad.org kicked off their 2008 "To Life" Telethon with a pastiche of the fiddle solo and bottle dance from the musical. Broadway references have included "Spamalot", where a "Grail dance" sends up the "bottle dance" in "Fiddler"s wedding scene. "The Producers" (2001) includes a musical number in the style of Jerry Bock that features an actual fiddler on a roof. Also in 2001, Chicago's Improv Olympic produced a well-received parody, "The Roof Is on Fiddler",
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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
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none. The 2007 West End revival was nominated for Olivier Awards for best revival, and Goodman was nominated as best actor. 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
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Fiddler on the Roof (film) Fiddler on the Roof is a 1971 American musical comedy-drama film produced and directed by Norman Jewison. It is an adaptation of the 1964 Broadway musical of the same name, with music composed by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and screenplay by Joseph Stein and based on stories by Sholem Aleichem. Starring Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, and Paul Mann, the film 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
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82nd birthday. Jerry Bock Jerrold Lewis "Jerry" Bock (November 23, 1928November 3, 2010) was an American musical theater composer. He received the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Sheldon Harnick for their 1959 musical "Fiorello!" and the Tony Award for Best Composer and Lyricist for the 1964 musical "Fiddler on the Roof" with Sheldon Harnick. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and raised in Flushing, Queens, New York, Bock studied the piano as a child. While a student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he wrote the musical "Big As Life", which toured the state and
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Jerry Bock Jerrold Lewis "Jerry" Bock (November 23, 1928November 3, 2010) was an American musical theater composer. He received the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Sheldon Harnick for their 1959 musical "Fiorello!" and the Tony Award for Best Composer and Lyricist for the 1964 musical "Fiddler on the Roof" with Sheldon Harnick. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and raised in Flushing, Queens, New York, Bock studied the piano as a child. While a student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he wrote the musical "Big As Life", which toured the state and enjoyed a
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of romance between the two. Because of problems the show went through during out of town tryouts, Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, the successful composing team of "Fiddler on the Roof" were brought in to contribute additional songs including "Cold Clear World" and "I Shall Miss You." They also wrote "I'm In London Again" which was the first number for Irene Adler, but after opening night, this number (which can be heard on the cast album) was dropped and replaced by another Bock-Harnick composition, "Buffalo Belle" which had Irene Adler performing an elaborate Wild West number. The musical opened on
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Best Musical, score, book, direction and choreography. It spawned five Broadway revivals and a highly successful 1971 film adaptation and has enjoyed enduring international popularity. It has also been a popular choice for school and community productions. "Fiddler on the Roof" is based on "Tevye (or "Tevye the Dairyman") and his Daughters", a series of stories by Sholem Aleichem that he wrote in Yiddish between 1894 and 1914 about Jewish life in a village in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia at the turn of the 20th century. It is also influenced by "Life Is with People", by Mark
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clear. The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society have a mockumentary of this production on their website. There have been many legal difficulties in performing "Shoggoth"; however, it was staged for the first time, in a Swedish translation, at Miskatonicon, a H. P. Lovecraft convention in Sweden, on November 4, 2005. It was staged for the first time in English at a games convention, Leprecon in Ireland on February 23, 2007. The production was organised by the Trinity College, Dublin Gamers Society. They avoided the legal issues surrounding the "Fiddler on the Roof" score by using a completely new score written
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including the effect of war on personal morals. "Mother Courage" has been compared to the popular musical, "Fiddler on the Roof". As Matthew Gurewitsch wrote in "The New York Sun", "Deep down, Mother Courage has a lot in common with Tevye the Milkman in "Fiddler on the Roof." Like him, she's a mother hen helpless to protect the brood." "Mother Courage" was the inspiration for Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer winning play "Ruined", written after Nottage spent time with Congolese women in Ugandan refugee camps. Sources consulted (English versions list) Mother Courage and Her Children Mother Courage and Her Children () is
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for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. It was also covered in 2008 and 2009 by the Capitol Steps, poking fun at Illinois politics, especially then-Governor Rod Blagojevich. The Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps performs the "Bottle Dance" from "Fiddler" as a "recurring trademark", including at the Drum Corps International World Championships. The song "Sunrise, Sunset" is often played at weddings, and in 2011 Sheldon Harnick wrote two versions of the song, suitable for same-sex weddings, with minor word changes. For example, for male couples, changes include "When did they grow to be so handsome". "Fiddler"s original Broadway production in 1964
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in Yiddish – Londisc − Now I have Everythin Jan Bart – Sings Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish – Londisc − Sabbath prayer Jan Bart – Sings Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish – Londisc − Sunrise Sunset Jan Bart – Sings Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish – Londisc − To Life Jan Bart – Sings Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish – Londisc − A moment Jan Bart – Sings Yinglish − And the angels sing Jan Bart – Sings Yinglish − Dancing in the moonlight Jan Bart – Sings Yinglish − Deep as the night Jan
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Jewison, and Stein adapted his own book for the screenplay. The casting of Chaim Topol over Zero Mostel for the role of Tevye caused controversy at first. The film received mostly positive reviews from film critics and became the highest-grossing film of 1971. "Fiddler" received eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director for Jewison, Best Actor in a Leading Role for Topol, and Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Leonard Frey (as Motel; in the original Broadway production, Frey was the rabbi's son). It won three, including best score/adaptation for arranger-conductor John Williams. In the film version, the
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Zborowski and Elizabeth Herzog. Aleichem wrote a dramatic adaptation of the stories that he left unfinished at his death, but which was produced in Yiddish in 1919 by the Yiddish Art Theater and made into a film in the 1930s. In the late 1950s, a musical based on the stories, called "Tevye and his Daughters", was produced Off-Broadway by Arnold Perl. Rodgers and Hammerstein and then Mike Todd briefly considered bringing this musical to Broadway but dropped the idea. Investors and some in the media worried that "Fiddler on the Roof" might be considered "too Jewish" to attract mainstream audiences.
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film composition was for the 1958 B movie "Daddy-O", and his first screen credit came two years later in "Because They're Young". He soon gained notice in Hollywood for his versatility in composing jazz, piano, and symphonic music. Williams received his first Academy Award nomination for his film score for 1967's "Valley of the Dolls", and was nominated again for his score for 1969's "Goodbye, Mr. Chips". Williams broke through to win his first Academy Award for his film score in the 1971 film "Fiddler on the Roof". In 1972, he composed the score for the Robert Altman-directed psychological thriller
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Lior played the part of Motel Kamzoil in "Fiddler on the Roof" at Melbourne’s Princess Theatre, which premiered in December 2015. In 2016, Lior worked with producer Tony Buchen to write an orchestral score for "The Wider Earth", a Queensland theatre production based on Charles Darwin's journey on HMS "Beagle". The score won the debute Matilda Theatre Award for 'Best Original Theatre Score' in 2016. In 2012, Lior was listed as a supporter of the Oscar's Law campaign which protests against the factory farming of companion animals. He also works with the Cambodian Children's Trust and the Global Poverty Project.
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Awards history behind Walt Disney's 59. Forty-six of Williams's Oscar nominations are for Best Original Score and five are for Best Original Song. He won four Oscars for Best Original Score and one for Best Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score "(Fiddler on the Roof)". In 1980, Williams received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music. Williams has been inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame and the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame. Williams was honored with the annual Richard Kirk award at the 1999 BMI Film and TV Awards, recognizing his contribution to film
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most manic hour." Wilder received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his role as Willy Wonka, but lost to Chaim Topol as Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof". Critical response to Johnny Depp's performance as Willy Wonka was more mixed. Critic Andrew Sarris, of the "New York Observer", who did not enjoy the film's style in general, wrote "I wonder if even children will respond to the peculiarly humorless and charmless stylistic eccentricities of Mr. Burton and his star, Johnny Depp." However, Owen Gleiberman of "Entertainment Weekly" wrote that "Johnny
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of Anatevka, a typical shtetl in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia, compares the lives of the Jews of Anatevka to a fiddler on the roof (who appears throughout the film in this metaphorical role), using tradition to "scratch out a pleasant, simple tune" without breaking their necks. In town, Tevye meets Perchik, a radical Marxist from Kiev, who admonishes them for talking but doing nothing about news of Jews being banished from their villages by the tsar. Tevye invites Perchik to stay with his family, offering him room and board in exchange for Perchik tutoring his daughters. Tevye
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three Academy Awards, including Best Music, Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score for arranger-conductor John Williams. It was nominated for several more, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Topol as Tevye, and Best Supporting Actor for Frey, who played Motel Kamzoil the Tailor. Topol and Frey had performed in stage productions of the musical; Topol as Tevye in the London production and Frey in a minor part as Mendel, the rabbi's son, on Broadway. The film's plot largely follows that of the musical from which it is adapted. In 1905, Tevye, a poor Jewish milkman living in the Ukrainian village
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the lives of Tevye's descendants living in an assimilated 1970s suburban America. The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society published a musical theatre and album parody of "Fiddler on the Roof" called "A Shoggoth on the Roof", which incorporates the works of H. P. Lovecraft. In the film "Mrs. Doubtfire" (1993), Robin Williams parodies "Matchmaker". References to the musical on television have included a 2005 episode of "Gilmore Girls" titled "Jews and Chinese Food", involving a production of the musical. A skit by "The Electric Company" about a village fiddler with a fear of heights, so he is deemed "Fiddler on
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that used most of the original book of the musical but replaced the songs with 1980's pop songs. The original Broadway cast of the musical "Avenue Q" and the Broadway 2004 revival cast of "Fiddler on the Roof" collaborated for a Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS benefit and produced an approximately 10-minute-long show, "Avenue Jew", that incorporated characters from both shows, including puppets. Songs from the musical have been covered by notable artists. For example, in 1964, jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded the album "Fiddler on the Roof", which featured jazz arrangements of eight songs from the musical. "AllMusic" awarded the
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Gary Arnold of "The Washington Post" stated, "Jewison's 'Fiddler' is a great film, by which I mean great in the sense that matters most—greatly moving, an extraordinarily powerful, emotional experience." Pauline Kael of "The New Yorker" called it "an absolutely smashing movie; it is not especially sensitive, it is far from delicate, and it isn't even particularly imaginative, but it seems to me the most "powerful" movie musical ever made." American Film Institute recognition Fiddler on the Roof (film) Fiddler on the Roof is a 1971 American musical comedy-drama film produced and directed by Norman Jewison. It is an adaptation
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at Circle in the Square. Clive Barnes called it "spiky, yet intensely moving. A "Fiddler on the Roof" without music, but with blood. Unique, wild, funny. It still haunts me." He wrote the off-off-Broadway play "Ten Best Martyrs of the Year", a Theater for the New City (TNC) production directed by Crystal Field, about the ten rabbis who were tortured to death in Rome for supporting the revolt led by Bar Kokhbah in 2nd century Palestine. Simckes said of that play, "I tend to make tragic comment in a mixture of styles. So what did I do? I wrote a
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same person is required both to compose and to orchestrate. Frequently, when a stage musical is adapted to film, such as "Camelot" or "Fiddler on the Roof", the orchestrations for the film version are notably different from the stage ones. In other cases, such as "Evita", they are not, and are simply expanded versions from those used in the stage production. Most orchestrators often work from a draft (sketch), or short score, that is, a score written on limited number of independent musical staves. Some orchestrators, particularly those writing for the opera or music theatres, prefer to work from a
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of many Russian classical composers. Robinson adds that the source of Tiomkin's score, if indeed folk, has not been proven. However, the "Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture", on page 124, states: "The fifty-year period in the USA between 1914, the start of the First World War and the year of Irving Berlin's first full score, Watch Your Step, and 1964, the premiere of Boek and Hamick's Fiddler on the Roof, is informed by a rich musical legacy from Yiddish folk tunes (for example Mark Warshavsky's "Di milners trem," The miller's tears: and Dimitri Tiomkin's "Do Not Forsake Me." High Noon)
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Rosalind Harris Rosalind Harris (born March 19, 1950) is an American theater and film actress. She is known for her portrayal of Tzeitel, the eldest daughter of Tevye, in the 1971 film "Fiddler on the Roof". She also starred as Tzeitel in the Broadway musical, having replaced Bette Midler. Nearly 20 years after the film, Harris played mother Golde in a touring stage revival of "Fiddler on the Roof"; Topol, the Israeli actor who played father Tevye in the film, reprised his role, now playing her husband. Harris also had an extensive theatre career, having performed in leading roles in
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the tremendous challenge which lies before it, while the characters in the film must finally learn to trust in Eglantine's magic to achieve their goals and save Britain from the Nazis. The song earned the Sherman Brothers an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song, (though it lost to Isaac Hayes's "Theme from Shaft"). They were also nominated for Best Original Score (John Williams's score for Fiddler on the Roof won instead). This represented the songwriters' fourth and fifth Oscar bids, respectively. The song was covered by the band Dodgy in 1991 during a BBC Radio 1 session for Mark Goodier,
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John Williams discography John Williams, also formerly credited as Johnny Williams, worked as a jazz pianist and studio musician before starting to compose for television and film. Throughout his career he has directed his own works whenever possible. In a career spanning 60 years, he has won four Academy Awards for Best Original Score ("Jaws", "Star Wars", "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", "Schindler's List") and one for Best Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score "(Fiddler on the Roof)". He has won four Golden Globe Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, and 23 Grammy Awards, and has received several gold and platinum records.
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the priority of a specific ethnic culture against the hegemony of Russian society, from which the artist had been institutionally excluded since youth.” There is also evidence that Chagall often showcased the people of the shtetl, who are at the heart of Sholem Aleichem’s stories and, consequently "Fiddler on the Roof", in a very sympathetic light. In addition to the ideological similarities between Sholem Aleichem and Chagall’s works, the case for a connection between the painting and the musical is strengthened by the fact that the 1964 production of the musical was designed by Boris Aronson, who also wrote one
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Beautiful", running for only 60 performances in 1958, but "Fiorello!" (1959) ran for 795 performances and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. "Fiddler on the Roof" (1964) "became one of the most cherished of all Broadway musicals." Harnick wrote the libretto for the opera "Coyote Tales", with music by Henry Mollicone, which received its world premiere at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City in March 1998. He wrote the book, music and lyrics to the musical "Dragons", which was performed in 2003 at the Luna Stage in Montclair, New Jersey. He wrote the lyrics and co-wrote the book with Norton
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roster. One popular name was Ruth Oenslager, the widow of George Oenslager, a chemist for B.F. Goodrich. She pitched in $22,000 to help save the Civic from becoming a parking lot. For advertising, the women wrote to celebrities, wanting them to come perform at their theater. The women were able to sponsor Helen Hayes, who subsequently was the "First Lady of American Theater". The event provided the Civic with $6,500, allowing for the payment for the mortgage. New shows were able to be put on display at the theater, including "Fiddler on the Roof, Mame, Cactus Flower, The Apple Tree"
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and hid his Jewish heritage from the public. Other cast members also had run-ins with Robbins, who reportedly "abused the cast, drove the designers crazy [and] strained the good nature of Hal Prince". Tevye, a poor Jewish milkman with five daughters, explains the customs of the Jews in the Russian shtetl of Anatevka in 1905, where their lives are as precarious as the perch of a fiddler on a roof ("Tradition"). At Tevye's home, everyone is busy preparing for the Sabbath meal. His sharp-tongued wife, Golde, orders their daughters, Tzeitel, Hodel, Chava, Shprintze and Bielke, about their tasks. Yente, the
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A Shoggoth on the Roof A Shoggoth on the Roof is a parody musical of "Fiddler on the Roof" based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Published by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, it is credited to a member of the society who is referred to only as "He Who (for legal reasons) Must Not Be Named". In a fictional backstory created by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, "A Shoggoth on the Roof" was originally attempted by The Other Gods Theatre Company in 1979 in Los Angeles. The production was abandoned for reasons that are not entirely
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the Narrator in "Peter and the Wolf", and Carl Davis wrote a special concert piece, "Duck's Diary," for him. From the fifties to the seventies, his career as an actor saw him appear on both television and film. On the big screen, he had modest roles in "Room at the Top" (1959), "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (1968), "Scrooge" (1970), "Fiddler on the Roof" (1971) and "Carry On Behind" (1975). Other small screen credits included "Big Deal", "Crossroads", "The Fenn Street Gang", "Dixon of Dock Green", "Z-Cars", "The Professionals", "Doctor Who", "All Creatures Great and Small", "Terry and June" and "Juliet
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Do You Love Me? (Fiddler on the Roof) "Do You Love Me?" is a song from the musical "Fiddler on the Roof". It is performed by Tevye and his wife Golde. Chaim Topol explained: Tevye and Golde's daughters choose men they love as marital partners. As they themselves had an arranged marriage, Tevye asks Golde if she actually loves him. Southern light Opera explains "‘Do you love me’ sums up the confusion in Tevye’s mind as times change". Culture in Northern Ireland described it as "lovely". According to "The Irish Times", "In an enchanting duet with his wife, Tevye philosophises
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while questioning the place of religion in this unfettered age. The story follows two young couples, of secular upbringing, from North America to Jerusalem as they come to grips with their religion. Ronnie Cohen wrote the music and lyrics. The musical was first produced by La MaMa E.T.C. in 1998. Anita Gates described the play as "lovable" and "a terrific original work" in a "New York Times" review. "Fiddler Sub-Terrain", another musical collaboration with Ronnie Cohen, is a contemporary satire of "Fiddler on the Roof" set in the backdrop of politics in Quebec, Canada. It was produced in 2001 by
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the film "Pretty Boy" for which he won an award in "The Made in Miami Film Festival". Upon completion of this film, he got the lead role in the film "Se Habla Español", a movie also in English with Spanish subtitles. Ricardo Chávez has acted in 21 different plays including "Who Is the Guilty One?", "Andrés, Here Comes the Train", "How To Forget My Past", "Waiting for Godot", "The Fiddler on the Roof" with Manolo Fábregas among others. After 18 soap operas, 21 theater plays, 8 movies and over 100 television shows and series, Ricardo wrote "Your Life Does Not
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she became a lead singer with a local band in Riga, Latvia and worked night gigs at local clubs and restaurants for several years. In the 1980s she studied acting and directing at Moscow State Institute for Theatrical Arts (GITIS), graduating as actress and director. In 1985, Laima Vaikule made her first hit in the Soviet Union. Since 1986, Vaikule has been enjoying a fruitful collaboration with popular Latvian composer, Raimonds Pauls, and Russian poet Ilya Reznik, who wrote such hits as "Vernisage", "Charlie" and "Skripach na kryshe" ("Fiddler on the roof"). She is among the original organizers of the
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to target an optimum acoustic reverberation of 1.4 seconds. Singers who have performed with the company include Bryn Terfel, Simon Keenlyside, Joseph Calleja, Claire Rutter, Rachel Nicholls, Bryan Register, Susan Gritton, Wynne Evans, Sally Matthews, Alfie Boe, Robert Poulton, Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts, Sara Fulgoni, Clive Bayley and Alastair Miles. The festival has also included well-known musicals with productions of "Fiddler on the Roof" in 2015 and "Oliver!" in 2016. Fiddler on the Roof was subsequently staged in the Royal Albert Hall as part of the 2015 BBC Proms. Order of the British Empire (OBE) - 2002 Honorary Doctorate: Southampton University -
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a community theatre production, "Too Many Marys". Merlin graduated from UCLA and later studied under Michael Chekhov, learning his world-renowned acting technique. She has been described as the last student of Michael Chekhov who is still alive and teaching. Merlin made her first screen appearance in Cecil B. DeMille's film "The Ten Commandments" in 1956. Five years later, she made her Broadway debut in "Becket" before playing Tzeitel in Harold Prince's production of "Fiddler on the Roof". She left the cast of "Fiddler on the Roof" before the end of its tour to take care of her two small children
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"Utt De Zay (The Tailor's Song)" based on a real Yiddish song of the same name. Cannonball Adderley, was an American Jazz Saxophonist, who played legends like Miles Davis. In 1964, he released "Cannonball Adderley's Fiddler on the Roof," a saxophone version of the famous Fiddler on the Roof musical soundtrack. The broadway play was a resounding success, and Cannonball Adderley's rendition helped further connect the Black and Jewish music experience. Although it is a Jazz rendition, Addereley still maintains the Klezmer style on the song "Tradition," in order to respect the Jewish heritage of the song. The Temptations also
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the series. In addition he appeared in "Blood Relatives," a first season episode of the series "Millennium". Sean Six Sean Six is an American actor who started acting at the age of 8. His first role was in the theater, in a production of "Fiddler on the Roof" at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium. He is best known for his role as the Tenctonese teenager, Buck Francisco, in the cult science fiction TV series "Alien Nation". Sean landed this role after video of him acting in a play he co-wrote with a friend was viewed by producers of the Alien
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Sean Six Sean Six is an American actor who started acting at the age of 8. His first role was in the theater, in a production of "Fiddler on the Roof" at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium. He is best known for his role as the Tenctonese teenager, Buck Francisco, in the cult science fiction TV series "Alien Nation". Sean landed this role after video of him acting in a play he co-wrote with a friend was viewed by producers of the Alien Nation series. Sean reprised this role in all five "Alien Nation" TV movies after the cancellation of
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Tutte Lemkow Tutte Lemkow (28 August 1918 – 10 November 1991) was a Norwegian actor and dancer, who played mostly villainous roles in British television and films. His chief claims to mainstream familiarity were his roles as ""the fiddler"" in the film version of "Fiddler on the Roof" and the old man ("Imam") who translates the Staff of Ra for Indiana Jones in "Raiders of the Lost Ark". Lemkow appeared as a dancer in John Huston's 1952 film "Moulin Rouge" and in Blake Edwards' "A Shot in the Dark" as the Cossack who drinks the poison intended for Peter Sellers'
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as of 2010. Richard Pletcher, founder and producer, dedicated The Round Barn Theatre stage to Stein in 1997 during its production of "The Baker's Wife". His greatest success came from writing the book for the 1964 musical play "Fiddler on the Roof", for which he won three major awards, including two Tonys. He later wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation. Stein's additional Broadway credits include "Alive and Kicking", "Mr. Wonderful", "The Body Beautiful", "Juno", "Take Me Along", "Irene", "Carmelina", "The Baker's Wife", "Rags", "Enter Laughing" and its musical adaptation, "So Long, 174th Street". He also wrote the plays "Mrs.
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Passover services at Green's, Brown's, Young's Gap, and the Windsor hotels. Through the 1950s and 60's he made several recording albums, including Yinglish, old Yiddish melodies sung in English, and Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (see discography), for which he wrote the Yiddish lyrics. He published his biography with Barney Rubin, I Lost a Thousand Pounds (Oceanic Publications). He was a popular entertainer at weddings and bar mitzvahs, and there wasn't a family "simcha" that he and his wife, Lillian, didn't sing for. He officiated as cantor at just about every family wedding. He wrote individual anniversary songs for
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live recording of the "West Side Story" score which was nominated for a Grammy. Vosk left "Fiddler on The Roof" in 2016 to join the cast of the Second National Tour of "Wicked" succeeding Emily Koch in the lead role of Elphaba. She made her debut in South Bend, Indiana on September 7, 2016 opposite Amanda Jane Cooper as Glinda. Her last show on the tour was September 24, 2017 in Cincinnati, Ohio. On June 18, 2018, it was announced that Vosk would reprise the role of Elphaba in the Broadway production of "Wicked," succeeding Jackie Burns. Her first performance
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score caught the attention of director George Abbott and producer Hal Prince. They hired the team to compose a musical biography of former New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia. "Fiorello!" (1959) earned Bock and Harnick the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical, Tony Award for Best Musical (tied with the team from "The Sound of Music") and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Bock's additional collaborations with Harnick include "Tenderloin" (1960), "Man in the Moon" (1963), "She Loves Me" (1963), "Fiddler on the Roof" (1964), "The Apple Tree" (1966), and "The Rothschilds" (1970), as well as contributions
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the 1930s, until he finally went out in business for himself in the early 1950s setting up office in New York City. Among the scores that he orchestrated were those for the popular musicals "Carousel", "Finian's Rainbow", "Call Me Madam", "The Pajama Game", "The Music Man", "Fiddler on the Roof", "Shenandoah" and "Cabaret", as well as cult failures like "Anyone Can Whistle" and "The Gay Life". He was known for trying to give each Broadway score a unique and appropriate sound style, which he often accomplished by giving a lot of prominence to a distinctive instrument, like the accordion in
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also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Music, Adaptation and Original Song Score, losing to "Fiddler on the Roof". The Boy Friend (1971 film) The Boy Friend is a 1971 British-American musical comedy film directed by Ken Russell and starring Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Tommy Tune, and Max Adrian with an uncredited appearance by Glenda Jackson. It is an adaptation of the musical "The Boy Friend" by Sandy Wilson. It was released on DVD on April 12, 2011. The plot exists on three levels. First there is the frame story, where, in the south of England in the 1920s, a
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29th Golden Globe Awards The 29th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1971 films, were held on February 6, 1972. "' Gene Hackman – "The French Connection" "' Topol – "Fiddler on the Roof" "' Jane Fonda – "Klute" "' Twiggy – "The Boy Friend" "' William Friedkin – "The French Connection" "' "The French Connection" "' "Fiddler on the Roof" "' "Sunday Bloody Sunday" • UK "' "The Policeman (HaShoter Azulai)" • Israel "Shaft" – Isaac Hayes "' "Life Is What You Make It" – "Kotch" "' "The Hospital" – Paddy Chayefsky "' Ben
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nominations for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, for his work on the musicals "Oliver!" (1968), "Fiddler on the Roof" (1971), and "The Wiz" (1978), and won the award for his work on "Fiddler on the Roof". Morris' brother Reginald Herbert Morris was also a cinematographer based in Canada. Morris was a Fellow of The Royal Photographic Society and was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1998. He published his memoirs, "Huston, We Have a Problem: A Kaleidoscope of Filmmaking Memories" (), in 2006. In his later years, Morris participated in the film course at
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2,000 performances in the role in the original run and several revivals. Florence Stanley took over the role of Yente nine months into the run. The production earned $1,574 for every dollar invested in it. It was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning nine, including Best Musical, score, book, direction and choreography, and acting awards for Mostel and Karnilova. The original London West End production opened on February 16, 1967, at Her Majesty's Theatre and played for 2,030 performances. It starred Topol as Tevye, a role he had previously played in Tel Aviv, and Miriam Karlin as Golde. Alfie Bass,
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was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning nine, including Best Musical, score, and book, and Robbins won for best direction and choreography. Mostel and Karnilova won as best leading actor and best featured actress. In 1972, the show won a special Tony on becoming the longest-running musical in Broadway history. Its revivals have also been honored. At the 1981 Tony Awards, Bernardi was nominated as best actor. Ten years later, the 1991 revival won for best revival, and Topol was nominated as best actor. The 2004 revival was nominated for six Tony Awards and three Drama Desk Awards but won
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Circus is a Wacky World", and "You're Gonna Hear from Me" production numbers for "Inside Daisy Clover"), Adolph Deutsch ("Funny Face", "Some Like It Hot"), John Williams ("The Poseidon Adventure", "Superman", "Jurassic Park", and the Academy Award-nominated musical films "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Tom Sawyer"), and Jerry Goldsmith ("Rudy", "Mulan", "The Mummy", et al.). He also arranged the Leslie Bricusse score (along with Lionel Newman) for "Doctor Dolittle" (1967). Apart from his work as a respected orchestrator, Courage also contributed original dramatic scores to films, including two westerns: Arthur Penn's "The Left Handed Gun" (1958) and André de Toth's
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wrote, in his positive review: "Young Farhan Akhtar, proves yet again that he is one of the finest directors Bollywood has to date. He has paid full attention to the script and the technical aspects, giving rise to a polished product". Meanwhile, Akhtar wrote the English lyrics of Gurinder Chadha's Hollywood film "Bride and Prejudice" (2004), along with his sister, Zoya Akhtar, after being recommended by his father. The music for the film was composed by Anu Malik and consisted of a mixture of "Hindi songs", "West side story", "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Grease". In 2006, Akhtar directed, produced
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David Pevsner David Pevsner is an American actor, singer, dancer, and writer. Pevsner appeared in the 1990 revival of "Fiddler on the Roof", 1991 revival of "Rags", and some other theatrical productions. He also wrote three songs for the 1999 musical "Naked Boys Singing!", including "Perky Little Porn Star." He wrote and produced two one-person shows, "To Bitter and Back" (2003) and "Musical Comedy Whore" (2013). Pevsner portrayed mostly minor roles in films and television. His major screen roles are Ebenezer Scrooge in "Scrooge & Marley", the 2012 film adaptation of "A Christmas Carol", and Ross Stein in a 2011
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Toscanini. He later started his own professional orchestra, the Symphony Society of Long Island, and worked as a violinist and assistant conductor for the New York City Center Ballet. In the mid-1950s, Jaffe began working on Broadway, as a conductor, assistant conductor and musical director for classic shows, including the original productions of "West Side Story", "Fiddler on the Roof" and "My Fair Lady". He served as musical director on "Fiddler on the Roof" for five years, working with six different Tevyes, including Zero Mostel. Jaffe was nominated for the 1964 Tony Award for Best Conductor and Musical Director on
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original musical "Sugar" (1972), and revivals of "Hello, Dolly!" (1975) and "Pal Joey" (1976). His Off-Broadway credits include the choreography of "Six" (1971) by Charles Strouse. He also performed in the national tour of "Fiddler on the Roof". In the 80s Flinn toured with the national company of "A Chorus Line" in the roles of both Zack and Greg. Flinn later wrote and directed his own Off-Broadway musical: "Groucho" (1979), starring Lewis J. Stadlen. He choreographed musical sequences for the films "The Deceivers" (1988) and "Ghost" (1990), and the television series "Another World" and "Search for Tomorrow". Flinn wrote the
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of Tevye for a 1997–1998 touring production in Israel, as well as a 1998 show at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne. In September 2005 he returned to Australia for a "Fiddler on the Roof" revival at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney, followed by an April 2006 production at the Lyric Theatre in Brisbane and a June 2006 production at Her Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne. In May 2007, he starred in a production in the Auckland Civic Theatre. On January 20, 2009, Topol began a farewell tour of "Fiddler on the Roof" as Tevye, opening in Wilmington, Delaware. He was forced
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four times for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, for the films "Performance" (directed by Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg-1970), "Fiddler on the Roof" (Jewison-1971), "Rollerball" (Jewison-1975), and "A Bridge Too Far" (Attenborough-1975). Gibbs has never been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Editing. Gibbs was nominated again for ACE Eddie awards for "Fiddler on the Roof" and, much later in his career, he won Eddie awards for the television films "George Wallace (Part II)" (1997) and for "James Dean" (2001). Gibbs had been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors, and was the recipient of the American
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when Rodensky fell ill. Harold Prince, producer of the original "Fiddler on the Roof" that opened on Broadway in 1964, had seen Topol in "Sallah Shabati" and called him to audition for the role of the fifty-something Tevye in a new production scheduled to open at Her Majesty's Theatre in London on February 16, 1967. Not yet fluent in English, Topol memorized the score from the Broadway cast album and learned the lyrics with a British native. When Topol arrived at the audition, Prince was surprised that this 30-year-old man had played Shabati, a character in his sixties. Topol explained,
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"Fiddler on the Roof" and won the Hedda Award for this role. Rybak won the 54th Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow, Russia, with a record 387 points, singing "Fairytale", a song inspired by Norwegian folk music. The song was composed and written by Rybak and was performed with the modern folk dance company Frikar. The song received good reviews with a score of 6 out of 6 in the Norwegian newspaper "Dagbladet", and, in an "ESCtoday" poll, he scored 71.3%, making him the favourite to get into the final. In the 2009 Norwegian national heats, Rybak achieved a clean sweep,
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The Lion Sleeps Tonight (which appears briefly in the original film as well) performed by Lebo M. and Vinx. Other songs featured in the film that aren't in the soundtrack include the song "Sunrise, Sunset" from the musical "Fiddler on the Roof" and the eponymous theme song from the television show "Peter Gunn" composed by Henry Mancini. The film contains original score composed by Don Harper, and also features the instrumental theme "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" composed by Ennio Morricone. A video game based on the film was published in 2003 for the Game Boy Advance, featuring
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"Fiddler on the Roof" or the cimbalom in "The Gay Life". In "Anyone Can Whistle", he used a string section with five cellos and no violins or violas. Like other busy orchestrators, Walker sometimes turned to assistants to score selected numbers that he didn't have time to do; several major orchestrators, including Irwin Kostal and Robert Ginzler, got their start working for him. When older shows were revived, Walker was often chosen to re-orchestrate them in a more up-to-date style. He performed this task on the 1943 revival of "A Connecticut Yankee", the 1952 revival of "Pal Joey", and the
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of the earliest monographs on Chagall. Green Violinist Green Violinist is a 1923-24 painting by artist Marc Chagall that is now in the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The work depicts a fiddler as the central figure who appears to be floating or dancing above the much smaller rooftops of the misty gray village below. This work is often considered to be the inspiration for the title of the 1964 musical "Fiddler on the Roof". "Green Violinist" was completed following Chagall’s return to Paris after a long visit to his homeland of Russia.
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cast in the BBC film "Diana & I" as a journalist who is present at the time of the death of Princess Diana. A casting director for Yorgos Lanthimos' "The Favourite" suggested that he audition for "Will". He had several rounds of auditions. Just as school was set to resume following Christmas of his final year at LAMDA and as he was set to play Tevye in a school production of "Fiddler on the Roof", he was informed in January 2016 that he was cast in "Will", and he dropped out of "Fiddler" to shoot the show's pilot. In order
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In 2015, she won the role of Hodel in a revival of the classic Broadway show "Fiddler on the Roof". Samantha Massell Samantha Massell (born January 15, 1990) is a New York-based American actor and singer notable for playing Hodel in the 2015 Broadway revival of "Fiddler on the Roof". She has received positive reviews of her singing and acting performance. Massell attended Hunter College High School (where she interned for Lin-Manuel Miranda) and the University of Michigan, where she studied musical theater and English, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. She made her Broadway debut at age 12 in "La
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Green Violinist Green Violinist is a 1923-24 painting by artist Marc Chagall that is now in the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The work depicts a fiddler as the central figure who appears to be floating or dancing above the much smaller rooftops of the misty gray village below. This work is often considered to be the inspiration for the title of the 1964 musical "Fiddler on the Roof". "Green Violinist" was completed following Chagall’s return to Paris after a long visit to his homeland of Russia. This particular version is a later
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"The New York Times" reviewer wrote that "This show -- one man's memories of his childhood on the Lower East Side almost a century ago -- is mostly self-important sentimentality, uninspired dancing and music with a badly recycled ring...the well-meaning, affectionately told story of a struggling immigrant Jewish family." The "talkinbroadway" reviewer wrote that " 'A Stoop on Orchard Street', while far too gentle to be placed along similar shows like 'Ragtime', 'Rags', or 'Fiddler on the Roof', often feels right at home where it's landed in the Mazer Theater. If sometimes staidly educational in its outlook and execution, the
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2000 - "Annie" 1999 - "Chess" 1998 - "Guys and Dolls" 1997 - "Grease" 1996 - "Carousel" 1995 - "Fiddler on the Roof" 1994 - "Mame" 1993 - "Hello Dolly!" 1992 - "West Side Story" 1991 - "Brigadoon" 1990 - "Anything Goes" 1989 - "Oklahoma!" 1988 - "Bells Are Ringing" 1987 - "Damn Yankees" 1986 - "Oliver!" 1985 - "Tom Sawyer" 1983 - "The Wizard of Oz" 1982 - "Bye Bye Birdie" 1981 - "Prophet of a New World" 1980 - "Annie Get Your Gun" 1979 - "Li'l Abner" 1978 - "Strike!" 1977 - "Fiddler on the Roof" 1976 -
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After the end credits, the show advertised its "sequel", due to be shown the next year: "Celebrity Fiddler on the Roof In the Jungle", an amalgam of British reality show "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here" and the musical "Fiddler on the Roof". It was the first show Kay had produced on the channel for four years, and was described by Channel 4 as the 'comedy forefront of the autumn schedule, which [would] begin a year-long season of programmes'. The show was rerun in its entirety on 14 December 2008. Due to the release of "I Know Him
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suffering of your people and my people, your warmth and affection has restored in me my faith in humanity. I love you dearly." Giora Godik later specialized in "lavish production of international musicals," produced for the Israeli stage. His productions included Hebrew-language versions of musicals including "My Fair Lady",(1964), "The King and I", "Man of La Mancha", and "Fiddler on the Roof." The Hebrew version of "Fiddler on the Roof" was so successful that Godik decided to produce a second version, this time in Yiddish, the language in which the original Shalom Aleichem stories upon which the musical was based
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to Lazar Wolf entering the scene, Tevye speaks to a female servant, who tells him not to touch anything. Although a faithful adaptation of the original stage version, "Fiddler" scholar Jan Lisa Huttner has noted several differences between stage and screen. She argues that changes in American culture and politics and developments in Israel led the filmmakers to portray certain characters differently and to offer a different version of Anatevka. For example, the Broadway production cast Bea Arthur as a tall, booming Yente, while the film portrays Yente as tiny and timid. Huttner also notes that the "Chagall color palette"
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box office successes, with the notable exceptions of "Fiddler on the Roof", "Cabaret" and "Grease". The 1980s saw the influence of European "mega-musicals", or "pop operas", on Broadway, in the West End and elsewhere. These typically featured a pop-influenced score, had large casts and sets and were identified by their notable effects – a falling chandelier (in "The Phantom of the Opera"), a helicopter landing on stage (in "Miss Saigon") – and big budgets. Many were based on novels or other works of literature. The most important writers of mega-musicals include the French team of Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil,
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Yiddish − Sunrise Sunset Jan Bart – Fiddler on the roof – Yiddish − To Life Jan Bart – Fiddler on the roof – Yiddish − A Moment Jan Bart – Janson records JR 1000 A Test Pressing − Haviva Jan Bart – Janson records JR 1000 A Test Pressing − I Love You Much Too Much Jan Bart – Janson records JR 1000 A Test Pressing − Misirlou Jan Bart – Janson records JR 1000 A Test Pressing − My Mother's Sabbath Candles Jan Bart – Janson records JR 1000 A Test Pressing − That Wonderful Girl of Mine
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to 1969, she played the role of Tzeitel in "Fiddler on the Roof" on Broadway. After "Fiddler", she joined the original cast of "Salvation" in 1969. She began singing in the Continental Baths, a gay bathhouse in the Ansonia Hotel, in the summer of 1970. During this time, she became close to her piano accompanist, Barry Manilow, who produced her first album in 1972, "The Divine Miss M." It was during her time at the Continental Baths that she built up a core following. In the late 1990s, during the release of her album "Bathhouse Betty", Midler commented on her
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could do such things to others. Tevye still will not talk to her, but when Tzeitel says goodbye to Chava, Tevye prompts her to add "God be with you." Motel and Tzeitel go to Poland as well but will join the rest of the family when they have saved up enough money. As Tevye, Golde and their two youngest daughters leave the village for America, the fiddler begins to play. Tevye beckons with a nod, and the fiddler follows them out of the village. § The 2004 revival featured a song for Yente and some women of the village (Rivka
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1970s, Raposo wrote original music for the animated film ""; he later teamed with William Gibson ("The Miracle Worker") to create a stage musical about Raggedy Ann. The musical was the first theatre company production from the United States to perform in the Soviet Union upon resumption of cultural relations between the two countries. It later had a brief run on Broadway in 1986. Raposo also collaborated with Sheldon Harnick ("Fiddler on the Roof") on a musical adaptation of the 1946 film "It's a Wonderful Life". "A Wonderful Life" was first performed at the University of Michigan in 1986, and
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Concert Choir attained Gold with Distinction. Out of school hours, the choral department has a show choir and a vocal jazz group. The Lancaster Men's Choir consists of the combined tenor and bass sections of both Mixed Choir and Concert Choir. The Lancaster Men's Choir attained a score of Gold at its 2011 NYSSMA evaluation. Lancaster has two orchestras. The String Orchestra is the entry-level orchestra, and the Symphony Orchestra is the upper-level orchestra. The music department puts on a musical annually. Recent musicals include "The Little Mermaid" (2015), "Fiddler on the Roof" (2013), "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (2012), "The Drowsy
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Alexandra Silber Alexandra Michelle Silber (born July 3, 1983) is an American actress, singer, writer and educator. She has performed roles on Broadway, in London's West End, on television and film, and concert stages. Among other stage roles, in London, she created the role of Laura Fairlie in "The Woman in White" (2005), played Hodel in "Fiddler on the Roof" (2007) and Julie Jordan in "Carousel" (2008). In New York, she appeared in "Hello Again" (2010), "Master Class" (2011), created the role of Sara Jane in "Arlington" (2012–14) and as Tzeitel in the Broadway revival of "Fiddler on the Roof"
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authors produced other innovative works in the 1960s, such as "Celebration" and "I Do! I Do!", the first two-character Broadway musical. The 1960s would see a number of blockbusters, like "Fiddler on the Roof" (1964; 3,242 performances), "Hello, Dolly!" (1964; 2,844 performances), "Funny Girl" (1964; 1,348 performances) and "Man of La Mancha" (1965; 2,328 performances), and some more risqué pieces like "Cabaret", before ending with the emergence of the rock musical. Two men had considerable impact on musical theatre history beginning in this decade: Stephen Sondheim and Jerry Herman. The first project for which Sondheim wrote both music and lyrics
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before his death in 2008. Known for his kind manner and technical expertise, Finn was valued by engineers and musicians alike. Scott Heisel of "Alternative Press" wrote that Finn often "helped rough punk bands refine their sound, and helped them discover the power of a good vocal hook." Jerry Finn was born on March 31, 1969 in Ventura, California. When asked about his ancestry in a later interview, Finn did not know, noting he was adopted. The first music he remembered hearing was the soundtrack to "Fiddler on the Roof". He attended Dick Grove School of Music. He became an
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the Nazis in France, he wrote a poem entitled "For the Slaughtered Artists: 1950", which inspired paintings such as the "Song of David" (see photo): Lewis writes that Chagall "remains the most important visual artist to have borne witness to the world of East European Jewry... and inadvertently became the public witness of a now vanished civilization." Although Judaism has religious inhibitions about pictorial art of many religious subjects, Chagall managed to use his fantasy images as a form of visual metaphor combined with folk imagery. His "Fiddler on the Roof", for example, combines a folksy village setting with a
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appeared with Bing Crosby, Peggy Lee, and Buster Keaton in "A 70th Birthday Salute to Paul Whiteman" on TV's "The Revlon Revue". He wrote several instructional books for the banjo, guitar, and ukulele. In 1965 Reser died of a heart attack in the orchestra pit of Manhattan's Imperial Theatre while warming up for a Broadway stage version of "Fiddler on the Roof". He was inducted into the National Four-String Banjo Hall of Fame, a museum in Oklahoma, in 1999. In 2002, banjoist Michael Mason portrayed Harry Reser in "Heartland Chautauqua", a tent-show recreation of a 1920s traveling Chautauqua show at
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Flower The Fantasticks Scuba Duba 1970 You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running The Price I Do, I Do Cabaret George M Mame The Boyfriend Your Own Thing Barn Theatre Viet Rock Lovers and Other Strangers Jimmy Shine 1971 Hello, Dolly! Fiddler on the Roof Man of La Mancha Play It Again, Sam Plaza Suite 1972 You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown Fiddler on the Roof Promises, Promises Company Last of the Red Hot Lovers 1776 1973 Butterflies are Free Applause Never Too Late Mame Anything Goes Zorba 1974 Prisoner of Second Avenue No, No Nanette George
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Broadway, as well as the pre-Broadway engagements of revival productions of "Cabaret" (1987), "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" (1993), and "My Fair Lady" (1981). The Theatre staged a national touring company production of "Fiddler on the Roof" starring Theodore Bikel as Tevye in 2001. The U.S. national tour of "South Pacific", based on the 2008 Tony Award winning revival, played The Golden Gate Theatre in September 2009 before embarking on tour across the United States. A national tour of "Fiddler on the Roof" starring Harvey Fierstein played at the Golden Gate from January–February 21, 2010. In October 2014, the
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album 4 stars and states "Cannonball plays near his peak; this is certainly the finest album by this particular sextet". That same year, Eydie Gormé released a single of "Matchmaker". In 1999, Knitting Factory Records released "Knitting on the Roof", a compilation CD featuring covers of "Fiddler" songs by alternative bands such as The Residents, Negativland, and The Magnetic Fields. Indie rock band Bright Eyes recorded an adaptation of "Sunrise, Sunset" on their 2000 album "Fevers and Mirrors". "Allmusic" gave the album a favorable review, and the online music magazine "Pitchfork Media" ranked it at number 170 on their list
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Fantasticks", and "Fiddler on the Roof". As a producer, Mr. Gardner presented the world premiere of "Grumpy Old Men: The Musical",a musical stage adaptation of the Warner Bros. film "Grumpy Old Men", at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre in Winnipeg, Canada in the fall of 2011. The show has a score composed by Neil Berg. Internet Broadway Database Jeff Gardner (actor) Jeff Gardner is an American actor, Theatrical Manager, and theatre producer. Jeff Gardner has served as a Theatrical Manager in many of New York City's finest theatres including The Cherry Lane Theatre, Playhouse 91, and The Westside Theatre. As
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theatrical successes like "Fiddler on the Roof", "Sweet Charity", "Cabaret", and "Canterbury Tales". Arlon was sought out by CBS and at age 23 was made managing director and senior vice-president of the newly formed April/Blackwood Music. It was 1968 and in the following years the company were involved with Gilbert O'Sullivan, James Taylor, Nicky Chinn (of ChinnyChap), Chip Taylor, Al Gorgoni, Billy Vera, and bands Blood Sweat and Tears, and Chicago. The company acquired major copyrights of "Everybody's Talking" (Midnight Cowboy), "Hey Joe" by Jimi Hendrix, and "Think" by Aretha Franklin. Film score credits included "Scrooge" and the award winning
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Melbourne and Sydney in 2015–2016 with Anthony Warlow as Tevye, Sigrid Thornton as Golde and Lior as Motel. "Topol in 'Fiddler on the Roof': The Farewell Tour" opened on January 20, 2009, in Wilmington, Delaware. Topol left the tour in November 2009 due to torn muscles. He was replaced by Harvey Fierstein. The musical was an international hit, with early productions playing throughout Europe, in South America, Africa and Australia; 100 different productions were mounted in the former West Germany in the first three decades after the musical's premiere, and within five years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall,
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companies including E.S.T., INTAR, Manhattan Class Company, AMAS, and The Negro Ensemble Company. Katz was the spokesman for "Fiddler on the Roof" star Topol when he made the controversial move of temporarily leaving the Broadway revival of the show during the first Gulf War to return to Israel as it was weathering scud missile attacks. Katz wrote the movie "The Pest" which has gathered a cult following due to its unusual premise. The Houston Chronicle called the film "Endearing". The film stars John Leguizamo and Jeffrey Jones (Ferris Bueller's Day Off). Katz did re-writes and dialogue polishes on A Pyromaniac's
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the Chair". In the "Family Guy" episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" (2003), William Shatner is depicted as playing Tevye in a scene from "Fiddler". The second episode of "Muppets Tonight", in 1996, featured Garth Brooks doing a piece of "If I were a Rich Man" in which he kicks several chickens off the roof. "The Rosie Show", a 1996 episode of "The Nanny", parodied the dream scene, when Mr. Sheffield fakes a dream to convince Fran not to be a regular on a TV show. A 2011 episode of NBC's "Community", entitled "Competitive Wine Tasting", included a parody
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repeatedly. When the composers, Rodgers and Hammerstein, realized Bikel was an accomplished folksinger, they wrote the song "Edelweiss" specifically for him to sing and accompany himself on the guitar. In 1964, he played Zoltan Karpathy, the dialect expert, in the film version of "My Fair Lady". Since his first appearance as Tevye in the musical "Fiddler on the Roof" (1967), Bikel had performed the role more often than any other actor (more than 2,000 times). When an injury required 74-year-old fellow Israeli performer Chaim Topol (veteran of many productions of the stage show and star of the motion picture of
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performance as Marvin in Robert Patrick's "T-Shirts". While playing Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof" at the Waldo Astoria Dinner Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri he wrote his first play, "Cookin' With Gus", which was published by Samuel French. It has since been performed across the United States and has been translated into several languages for productions around the world. A huge hit in Quebec, Canada, it was taped in French by HBO. One play led to another and soon Brochu was writing full-time. For the theatre, he has written the comedies "The Lucky O'Learys" with Kathleen Freeman, "Fat Chance"
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alongside other Broadway stars in a World AIDS Day benefit concert of "Pippin" held at the Manhattan Center on November 29, 2004; Rod played "The Head." In another World AIDS Day benefit in 2005, the original cast of "Avenue Q" and the cast of the Broadway revival of "Fiddler on the Roof" presented a 10-minute spoof of both musicals called "Avenue Jew." As a brief prologue, Trekkie Monster poorly plays the "Fiddler" theme, pauses a moment, shrugs, and then eats the fiddle before running away. Tevye, his wife Golde, his two remaining daughters and the Fiddler, having immigrated to the
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1565 cycle of motets, the "Sacrae Lectiones Novem ex Propheta Job", and George Frideric Handel's use of Job 19:25 ("I know that my redeemer liveth") as an aria in his 1741 oratorio "Messiah". Modern works based on the book include Ralph Vaughan Williams's "", French composer Darius Milhaud's "Cantata From Job", and Joseph Stein's Broadway interpretation "The Fiddler on the Roof", based on an earlier Yiddish memoir by Sholem Alchem in 1894. Neil Simon wrote "God's Favorite" which is a modern retelling of the Book of Job. Breughel and Georges de la Tour depicted Job visited by his wife, and
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