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“Fiddler on the Roof,” the fourth production in the 106th Muny season, runs July 19 through 25. Learn more about the show at muny.org/fiddler.
In 1960, a musical debuted on Broadway, directed by Jerome Robbins, about a small Jewish community in Imperial Russia. Decades later, audiences from around the world still connect to its powerful story and enduring music by Bock and Harnick.
“Fiddler on the Roof,” the fourth production in the 106th Muny season, runs July 19 through 25. This will be the show’s 11th staging at The Muny.
“‘Fiddler’ is embedded in all our hearts,” said Mike Isaacson, The Muny’s artistic director and executive producer. “It's fathers and daughters, it's husbands and wives, it's a people and a community under attack searching for community and home. This is one of Broadway’s greatest musicals.”
This show, he said, “is bigger than all of us.”
The legendary musical tells the story of Tevye the milkman, who clings to the Jewish customs of Anatevka. As his daughters question these old-fashioned traditions and the world changes around them, Tevye is challenged to find a new way to learn and to love.
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“Fiddler on the Roof” articulates the conflict between culture and change, said director Rob Ruggiero, which makes its themes universal. He has directed previous Muny productions, including “West Side Story,” “Sweeney Todd,” “1776” and “Gypsy.”
In navigating change, Ruggiero said, “you don't have to lose who you are. You don't have to give up everything in order to move forward.”
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The Muny is the country's oldest and largest outdoor musical theater, located in the heart of Forest Park in St. Louis.
The family-centered story doesn’t feel old, he said. It was written six decades ago, but it just as easily could have been written today.
"When I use the word family, I don't just mean Tevye and his daughters and his wife,” Ruggiero said. “I mean the family of people in this community. And when you think of The Muny and you think of St. Louis as a community and you think of the Muny audience as a community, it's a really beautiful connection there."
It’s a bond, he said, that can only happen on the Muny stage.
“To hear ‘If I Were a Rich Man’ or when Tevye talks to God and to look up and see the stars and to feel the connection to the physical world is something you don't get all the time," he said.
Adam Heller (Tevye), Jill Abramovitz (Golde), Samantha Massell (Tzeitel), Hannah Corneau (Hodel), Emerson Glick (Chava), Max Chernin (Motel), Clay Singer (Perchik) and Andrew Alstat (Fyedka) are among the stars of the Muny production of “Fiddler on the Roof.” The cast also includes Zoe Klevorn (Bielke) of St. Louis in a juvenile principal role.
Original choreography by Jerome Robbins has been adapted for the Muny stage by Parker Esse. Darryl Archibald is the music director/conductor.
“Fiddler on the Roof” is sponsored by the Staenberg Family Foundation, a supporting foundation of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis.
As the nation’s oldest and largest outdoor musical theater, The Muny welcomes more than 350,000 audience members each summer for seven world-class productions. The Muny’s mission is to enrich lives by producing exceptional musical theater, accessible to all, while continuing its remarkable tradition in Forest Park.
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Tickets for the 106th Muny season — plus a special concert event starring John Legend with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra — are available at muny.org.
“Fiddler on the Roof”
When: 8:15 p.m. July 19 through 25; free preshow festival begins at 6:45 p.m. nightly
Where: The Muny, 1 Theatre Drive, Forest Park
How much: $21 to $135, plus the first-come, first-served free seats
More info: Call 314.361.1900 or visit muny.org/fiddler