Fiddler on the Roof
music by Jerry Bock
book by Joseph Stein
lyrics by Sheldon Harwick
Museum of Jewish Heritage
Edmond J. Safra Hall
36 Battery Place
New York, New York
first performance date: July 4, 2018
opened on July 16, 2018
closed on December 30, 2018
Stage 42
422 West 42nd Street
New York, New York
first performance date: February 11, 2019
opened on February 21, 2019
closed on January 5, 2020
This Yiddish-language production
of "Fiddler on the Roof" (Fidler afn dakh) was one of the
Folksbiene's more recent and successful production. It was directed by by Oscar and Tony Award®-winner
Joel Grey. The production received both the 2019 Drama Desk
Award and the 2019 Outer Critics Circle Award for "Best Musical
Revival," a special citation in 2019 by the New York Drama
Critics' Circle, and its star, Steven Skybell, who played Tevye,
received the 2019 Lortel Award as the "Best Lead Actor."
The production opened at the
Museum of Jewish Heritage in Lower Manhattan in the summer of
2018. As a play in itself, "Fiddler on the Roof" was unique in the fact that
the original production of "Fiddler" was performed in English from the
mid-1960s to the early 1970s on Broadway, but through the
Folksbiene in Yiddish, with
both English and Russian supertitles. [The Yiddish translation
was provided by Shraga Friedman z"l.]
In February of 2019 "Fiddler"
reopened on Broadway at the Stage 42 Theatre, playing there with great
success until the first week of January 2020.