Current Production
Family Children’s Theatre
February 21, 22, 23, 24, 2008
Thursday, Friday, Saturday – 7:30 p.m.
Sunday – 3:00 p.m.
Hutchinson,
Kansas
Hayes Sight
and Sound
Johnson Music
Sarah’s
Catholic Store
Edward Jones,
400 N. Main, South Hutchinson
Memorial Hall
1 hour prior to the show
Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry
Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905.
The story centers on Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attempts to
maintain his family and religious traditions while outside influences encroach
upon their lives. He must cope with both the strong-willed actions of his three
older daughters‹each daughter's choice of husband moves progressively further
away from established customs‹and with the edict of the Tsar that evicts
the Jews from their village.
The musical's title stems from a painting by Marc
Chagall,[2] one of many surreal paintings he created of Eastern
European Jewish life, often including a fiddler. The Fiddler is a metaphor for
survival, through tradition and joyfulness, in a life of uncertainty and
imbalance.
The most people will recognized the songs - Tradition; Sunrise, Sunset; Do You
Love Me?; and If I Were a Rich Man