Book by Joseph Stein
Music by Jerry Bock
Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Based on Sholem Aleichem stories
by special permission of Arnold Perl
The action takes place in Anatevka, an impoverished peasant town in Tsarist Russia, populated largely by hard-working Jewish families. The time is 1905 on the eve of the Russian revolutionary period. We are introduced to Tevye, the dairyman -- a pious man who has raised his five daughters with the aid of quotations from the Scriptures, most of which he invents himself. The people of Anatevka are simple and close to the earth. They hear little news of the outside world, and their lives are governed strictly by the age-old laws of Tradition.
Although Tevye is poor, he disired his girls to grow up leaned in the ways of the Good Book. According to tradtion the marriages of the daughters should be arranged. The daughters choose to break with tradition and marry for love. Tevye is faced with the problem of informing his wife that Tzeitel will not marry into wealth. He devises a scheme in which he pretends to awaken in the night as a result of a nightmare. Playing upon his wife's superstitiousness, Tevye tells her that her long deceased grandmother came to him and warned him to make a match with
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| Art ................................ Vocal ............................ Dramatics .................... Orchestra Director ...... Business Manager ...... Costume Design .......... |
Mary Steinson Eileen Nelson Richard Worthan Max Whitlock John Monroe Jeanette Vold Norma Engelby Caroline Johnson |
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| Tevye ............................... Golde ............................... Tzeitel .............................. Hodel ............................... Chava .............................. Shprintze ......................... Bielke .............................. Yente ............................... Motel .............................. Perchik ............................ Lazar Wolf ...................... Mordcha ......................... Rabbi .............................. Mendel ........................... Avrahm ........................... Nachum .......................... Grandma Tzeitel ............ Fruma Sarah .................. Constable ....................... Fyedka ........................... Shandel .......................... Fiddler ........................... |
Kendall Flygstad Becky Jacobson Carla Olson Julie Klaver Jean Jolivette Lynn Dorris Suzi Jansen Denise Jewell Dave Leeman Richard Heeren Todd Brekken Eudene Lund Cathy Barr Denny Klaver Kent Lindemann Rod Carlson Denise Staples Karen Klaver Wayne Grabau Jon Christianson Annette Owenson Jeff Heeren |
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MamasSharon Aden DaughtersLynn Akers |
PapasPaul Baldus SonsKenny Clabaugh RussiansTodd Anderson |
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Dream Sequence |
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| Jeanne Ballantine Angie Berg Jada Buckles Kathy Graham Naomi Hall Elaine Heeren |
Tammy Inboden Ilene Miller Shari Smith Kay Sonerholm Amy Wininger |
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UshersDiane Arends LightingJeff Knutson Set ConstructionCathy Barr |
ChoreographyLynn Akers ProgramsSue Hove LibrarianCathy Barr PhotographsKent Lindemann Art CrewLori Carlson |
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| Flute | Sue Hove Kathreen Lindemann |
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| Oboe | Pat Van Langen | |||
| Clarinet | Becky Abell Deanne Carlson Dave Johnson Janelle VanDePol |
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| Trumpet | Tim Krumm Brad Olson Everett Peterson Glenda Peterson Greg Richard |
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| French Horn | Ron Williams | |||
| Trombone | Roger Abell Ron Barkema Steve Hougland |
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| Bass | Rick Sexe | |||
| Percussion | Mike Johnston | |||
| Piano | Jeff Textor | |||
| Organ | Brooke Samuelson | |||