Fiddler_on_the_Roof_-_Joseph_Stein
"Exuberant,
touching, funny
and wonderful."
—Associated Press
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WINNER OF THE DRAMA CRITICS' AWARD
"... filled with laughter and tenderness. It catches the essence
of a moment in history with sentiment and radiance An
exceptional accomplishment."
-Howard Taubman, The New York Times
Book by JOSEPH STEIN Music by JERRY BOCK Lyrics by SHELDON HARNICK
Based on Sholom Aleichem's stories
Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive
in 2009
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lerlerhaps it is unfair to single out one per-
former from a cast that won nine Tony
Awards for outstanding performances, but
the truth is that without Zero Mostel,
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF might have been
just another musical comedy. Each night
when he made his first entrance, he all but
stopped the show. That was what audiences
had come to see and though they were gen-
erous in their applause for others, they never
let him forget it. This great shambling clown,
this inspired mime, this actor who somehow
managed to act without acting, left himself
in the wings each night, and the man who
stepped out onto the stage was actually
Tevye, a Russian dairyman, one of the great-
est characters in all of Jewish literature.
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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
was originally published by
Crown Publishers.