C.C Productions performs Songs from "Fiddler on the Roof" / Audio CD 1996 / Tradition, Matchmaker, Matchmaker, If I Were a Rich Man, Sunrise, Sunset / TRIP006A / QED

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TOTAL TIME: 42:46

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 their Jewish faith and heritage – 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 the seventeenth longest-running show in Broadway history. The production was extraordinarily profitable and highly acclaimed. It won nine Tony Awards, including 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.

Act I

• "Prologue: Tradition" – Tevye and Company
• "Matchmaker, Matchmaker" – Tzeitel, Hodel and Chava
• "If I Were a Rich Man" – Tevye
• "Sabbath Prayer" – Tevye, Golde, Company
• "To Life" – Tevye, Lazar Wolf, Russian soloist and Men
• "Tevye's Monologue" – Tevye
• "Miracle of Miracles" – Motel
• "Tevye's Dream" – Tevye, Golde, Grandma Tzeitel, Rabbi, Fruma-Sarah and Company
• "Sunrise, Sunset" – Tevye, Golde, Perchik, Hodel and Company
• "The Bottle Dance" – Instrumental

Act II

• "Entr'acte" – Orchestra
• "Now I Have Everything" – Perchik and Hodel
• "Tevye's Rebuttal" – Tevye
• "Do You Love Me?" – Tevye and Golde
• "The Rumor/I Just Heard" – Yente and Villagers §
• "Far From the Home I Love" – Hodel
• "Chavaleh (Little Bird)" – Tevye
• "Anatevka" – The Company

Principal characters

All of the characters are Jewish, except as noted:

• Tevye, a poor milkman with five daughters. A firm supporter of the traditions of his faith, he finds many of his convictions tested by the actions of his three oldest daughters.
• Golde, Tevye's sharp-tongued wife.
• Tzeitel, their oldest daughter, about nineteen. She loves her childhood friend Motel and marries him, even though he's poor, begging her father not to force her to marry Lazar Wolf.
• Hodel, their daughter, about seventeen. Intelligent and spirited, she falls in love with Perchik and later joins him in Siberia.
• Chava, their daughter, about fifteen. A shy book lover, who falls in love with Fyedka.
• Motel Kamzoil, a poor but hardworking tailor who loves, and later marries, Tzeitel.
• Perchik, a scholar and Bolshevik revolutionary who comes to Anatevka and falls in love with Hodel. He leaves for Kiev and is exiled to Siberia.
• Fyedka, a young Christian man. He shares Chava's passion for reading and is outraged by the Russians' treatment of the Jews.
• Lazar Wolf, the wealthy village butcher. Widower of Fruma-Sarah. Attempts to arrange a marriage for himself to Tzeitel.
• Yente, the gossipy village matchmaker who matches Tzeitel and Lazar.
• Grandma Tzeitel, Golde's dead grandmother, who rises from the grave in Tevye's "nightmare."
• Fruma-Sarah, Lazar Wolf's dead wife, who also rises from the grave in the "nightmare."
• Rabbi, the wise village leader.
• Constable, the head of the local Russian police, a Christian man.

Tracklist:

1. Tradition

2. Matchmaker, matchmaker

3. If I Were A Rich Man

4. Sabbath Prayer

5. To Life

6. Sunrise, Sunset

7. Bottle Dance

8. Now I Have Everything

9. Do you Love Me?

10. Far From the Home I Love

11. Anatevka