The Renaissance Players present Fiddler on the Roof
The Renaissance Players present the Tony Award-winning musical Fiddler on the Roof July 15-31 in the Performance Hall of The Renaissance Center in Dickson.
Performances are 7 p.m. July 15, 16, 22, 23, 29 and 30, with matinees at 2 p.m. July 17, 24 and 31. Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and $7 for children under 13.
The special lunch matinee on Saturday, July 23 is sold out.
Fiddler on the Roof is sponsored by Tennsco Corp., manufacturers of metal office furniture and shelving, and Educators Credit Union.
The production is directed by Nancy Nave, a teacher and theatre director at Houston County High School. Jeff Martin, music technology director at The Renaissance Center, is serving as musical director for the show.
Written by Joseph Stein and based on Sholem Aleichem’s short story Tevye and His Daughters, Fiddler on the Roof debuted at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway Sept. 22, 1964, and ran for 3,242 shows, becoming the longest-running musical in 1972.
It won nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Actor (Zero Mostel), Best Supporting Actress (Maria Karnilova) and Best Director (Jerome Robbins) as well as awards for author, producer, choreographer, costume design and composer and lyricist. In 1991 it won another Tony Award as Best Revival of a Musical.
A 1971 movie version directed by Norman Jewison was nominated for Best Picture and picked up three Academy Awards.
Fiddler on the Roof was one of the first Broadway musicals to deal with serious issues such as persecution, poverty and holding on to one’s beliefs.
Set in 1905 in a small Jewish village in Russia, it is the story of dairyman Tevye and his attempts to preserve his family’s traditions in a changing world. Tevye’s daughter Tzeitel wants to marry a poor tailor instead of the middle-aged butcher her father has chosen for her in the tradition of arranged marriages. Tevye is forced to choose between his daughter’s happiness and his culture’s beloved traditions.
The musical produced well-known songs such as Sunrise, Sunset, If I Were a Rich Man, and Matchmaker.
“Fiddler on the Roof is a classic story that transcends time and cultural differences with its eternal themes of conflict between new and old, parent and child,” said Amy Scott, managing director of the Renaissance Players. “The music is beautiful and elegant and we have a large, enthusiastic cast.”
For more information on the Renaissance Players production of Fiddler on the Roof, call (615)740-5600. To purchase tickets, call (615)740-5570.
The Renaissance Center is an arts and technology education and performing arts center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles west of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172.
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