Fiddler on the Roof is a musical based on Yiddish author Sholom Aleichem’s book of short stories, entitled Tevye and His Daughters and Other Tales. The musical was originally called Tevye, but the title was changed to Fiddler on the Roof, inspired by Marc Chagall’s painting The Fiddler. Throughout, the play employs the metaphor of the joyous fiddler delicately balancing atop a treacherous roof.
The original Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof was directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins and starred Zero Mostel as Tevye the milkman. Fiddler on the Roof held the record for
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