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...opening number done a better job of introducing a show's themes, setting and characters than Tradition?); most of Jerome Robbins' original choreography; and Joseph Stein's solid book (based on Sholom Aleichem stories) about a Jewish milkman and his marriageable daughters in the Russian village of Anatevka, in the days before they are uprooted and forced to migrate to America. But Leveaux has ditched the old-fashioned scene changes and set the show on an open stage, with bare trees silhouetted against a translucent blue and orange backdrop. He got Bock and Harnick to write a new song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Getting Beyond Zero | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

...early 20th-century Anatevka, a small town in the Russian Pale—the region where many Jews were confined under Russian czarist rule—Fiddler tells the story of Tevye the milkman and his five daughters. With music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and a book by Joseph Stein, the 1960s musical is based on a story by writer Sholom Aleichem...

Author: By Julie S. Greenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Classic Tale of Matchmaking and Marriage | 1/9/2003 | See Source »

...traditional world of marriages arranged by matchmakers is a part of life in Anatevka; the daughters’ deviation from that tradition presents a challenge to the old order, according to director Rachel D. Galper...

Author: By Julie S. Greenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Classic Tale of Matchmaking and Marriage | 1/9/2003 | See Source »

Tevye (Kenneth P. Herrera ’03) is a doting but distant father who ultimately wants to please everyone. When Herrera dons the traditional garb of the Anatevka milkman, his booming, benevolent voice sings a song for all fathers trying to protect daughters from the changing world...

Author: By Julie S. Greenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Classic Tale of Matchmaking and Marriage | 1/9/2003 | See Source »

...town of Anatevka is full of such archetypal characters: the meddling matchmaker, the rich, unsavory butcher and the wise Rabbi. They deliver wisdom, laughs and song throughout Fiddler...

Author: By Julie S. Greenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Classic Tale of Matchmaking and Marriage | 1/9/2003 | See Source »

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