The musical 'Fiddler On The Roof' was inspired by a painting by which artist?
"the priority of a specific ethnic culture against the hegemony of Russian society, from which the artist had been institutionally excluded since youth.” There is also evidence that Chagall often showcased the people of the shtetl, who are at the heart of Sholem Aleichem’s stories and, consequently ""Fiddler on the Roof"", in a very sympathetic light. In addition to the ideological similarities between Sholem Aleichem and Chagall’s works, the case for a connection between the painting and the musical is strengthened by the fact that the 1964 production of the musical was designed by Boris Aronson, who also wrote one"
"paintings and theatrical designs, with their complete disregard for the traditional mathematics of space and time, stand out uniquely among the other products of modern artistic and theatrical endeavor.” The connection between this painting and the Broadway musical, ""Fiddler on the Roof"", is often interpreted in very different ways by various theater companies, art historians, and scholars. The musical takes its source material from ""The Tevye Stories"" by Sholem Aleichem. Evidence for the connection between Chagall’s painting and the title of the musical can be found by placing the work within the context of the Russian Revolution, as it “asserts"
"Fiddler on the Roof Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in 1905. It is based on ""Tevye and his Daughters"" (or ""Tevye the Dairyman"") and other tales by Sholem Aleichem. The story centers on Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attempts to maintain his Jewish religious and cultural traditions as outside influences encroach upon the family's lives. He must cope both with the strong-willed actions of his three older daughters, who wish to marry"
"round coffee table. Now, show me how you would paint it."" He died of a heart attack in the lobby of his apartment. Norman Raeben Norman Raeben (1901 – 12 December 1978) was an American painter. He was born in Eastern Ukraine (then in Russian Empire), the youngest of the six children of Yiddish author Sholom Aleichem, whose most famous character Tevye the Milkman gave the blueprint for the musical ""Fiddler on the Roof"". The pen-name 'Raeben' is probably derived from his family-name 'Rabinowitz'. Raeben moved to New York City with his family in 1914. He studied painting from Robert"
"82nd birthday. Jerry Bock Jerrold Lewis ""Jerry"" Bock (November 23, 1928November 3, 2010) was an American musical theater composer. He received the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Sheldon Harnick for their 1959 musical ""Fiorello!"" and the Tony Award for Best Composer and Lyricist for the 1964 musical ""Fiddler on the Roof"" with Sheldon Harnick. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and raised in Flushing, Queens, New York, Bock studied the piano as a child. While a student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he wrote the musical ""Big As Life"", which toured the state and"
"Fiddler on the Roof (film) Fiddler on the Roof is a 1971 American musical comedy-drama film produced and directed by Norman Jewison. It is an adaptation of the 1964 Broadway musical of the same name, with music composed by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and screenplay by Joseph Stein and based on stories by Sholem Aleichem. Starring Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, and Paul Mann, the film centers on Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attempts to maintain his Jewish religious and cultural traditions as outside influences encroach upon the family's lives. He must cope"
"Jerry Bock Jerrold Lewis ""Jerry"" Bock (November 23, 1928November 3, 2010) was an American musical theater composer. He received the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Sheldon Harnick for their 1959 musical ""Fiorello!"" and the Tony Award for Best Composer and Lyricist for the 1964 musical ""Fiddler on the Roof"" with Sheldon Harnick. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and raised in Flushing, Queens, New York, Bock studied the piano as a child. While a student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he wrote the musical ""Big As Life"", which toured the state and enjoyed a"
"the Nazis in France, he wrote a poem entitled ""For the Slaughtered Artists: 1950"", which inspired paintings such as the ""Song of David"" (see photo): Lewis writes that Chagall ""remains the most important visual artist to have borne witness to the world of East European Jewry... and inadvertently became the public witness of a now vanished civilization."" Although Judaism has religious inhibitions about pictorial art of many religious subjects, Chagall managed to use his fantasy images as a form of visual metaphor combined with folk imagery. His ""Fiddler on the Roof"", for example, combines a folksy village setting with a"
"none. The 2007 West End revival was nominated for Olivier Awards for best revival, and Goodman was nominated as best actor. Fiddler on the Roof Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in 1905. It is based on ""Tevye and his Daughters"" (or ""Tevye the Dairyman"") and other tales by Sholem Aleichem. The story centers on Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attempts to maintain his Jewish religious and cultural traditions as outside influences encroach"
"Gary Arnold of ""The Washington Post"" stated, ""Jewison's 'Fiddler' is a great film, by which I mean great in the sense that matters most—greatly moving, an extraordinarily powerful, emotional experience."" Pauline Kael of ""The New Yorker"" called it ""an absolutely smashing movie; it is not especially sensitive, it is far from delicate, and it isn't even particularly imaginative, but it seems to me the most ""powerful"" movie musical ever made."" American Film Institute recognition Fiddler on the Roof (film) Fiddler on the Roof is a 1971 American musical comedy-drama film produced and directed by Norman Jewison. It is an adaptation"
"Norman Raeben Norman Raeben (1901 – 12 December 1978) was an American painter. He was born in Eastern Ukraine (then in Russian Empire), the youngest of the six children of Yiddish author Sholom Aleichem, whose most famous character Tevye the Milkman gave the blueprint for the musical ""Fiddler on the Roof"". The pen-name 'Raeben' is probably derived from his family-name 'Rabinowitz'. Raeben moved to New York City with his family in 1914. He studied painting from Robert Henri, George Luks and John French Sloan, who all belonged to the Ashcan School. His studio was on the 11th floor of Carnegie"
"Sheldon Harnick Sheldon Harnick (born April 30, 1924) is an American lyricist and songwriter best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock on musicals such as ""Fiddler on the Roof"". Harnick began his career writing words and music to comic songs in musical revues. One of these, ""The Merry Minuet"", was popularized by the Kingston Trio. It is in the caustic style usually associated with Tom Lehrer and is sometimes incorrectly attributed to Lehrer. Sheldon Mayer Harnick was born to American Jewish parents and grew up in the Chicago neighborhood of Portage Park. Yiddish was spoken in the home"
"Street. She played the piano by ear, sang, and danced. Zaltzberg's older sister Sadie took her to the theater. Sadie married Joseph Stein, the bookwriter of the hit Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof among others, and together they educated Zaltzberg about theater and developed her interest in writing. During the creation of Fiddler, Stein sent Zaltzberg the script for her input. Aside from Stein, Zaltzberg was influenced by the writer Sean O’Casey. She read poetry, such as Shakespeare, Millay, Dickinson, and Yeats, and loved the Group Theatre, Paul Robeson, and Mark Blitzstein. Zaltzberg went to Jewish socially progressive or"
"in the instructional video ""Master Classes in the Michael Chekhov Technique"". She teaches in New York University's graduate acting program at the Tisch School of the Arts and in 1999, founded the Michael Chekhov Association where she teaches acting workshops. Joanna Merlin Joanna Merlin (born July 15, 1931) is an American actress and casting director who has worked with Stephen Sondheim and starred in the original Broadway production of ""Fiddler on the Roof"". She has written two acting guides and is a faculty member of New York University's graduate acting program. In recent years, she has become known for her"
"""When did they grow to be so handsome"". Sunrise, Sunset ""Sunrise, Sunset"" is a song from the musical ""Fiddler on the Roof"" written in 1964 by composer Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick. Lyricist Sheldon Harnick said: The album ""Sheldon Harnick: Hidden Treasures (1949-2013)"" features the demo recording of ""Sunrise, Sunset"" featuring Harnick, accompanied by composer Jerry Bock. Harnick said ""This CD set is supposed to be the unknown songs, and the two men who created it, Bill Rudman (ph) and Ken Bloom (ph), when they said they wanted to use ""Sunrise, Sunset,"" I said but that's a very familiar"
"to ""Never Too Late"" (1962), ""Baker Street"" (1965), ""Her First Roman"" (1968), and ""The Madwoman of Central Park West"" (1979). ""Fiddler on the Roof"" included the hit song ""If I Were a Rich Man"". Established in 1997, the Jerry Bock Award for Excellence in Musical Theater is an annual grant presented to the composer and lyricist of a project developed in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop. Bock spoke at the funeral of 98-year-old Fiddler playwright Joseph Stein just 10 days before his own death, from heart failure at the age of 81, less than three weeks before his"
"Sunrise, Sunset ""Sunrise, Sunset"" is a song from the musical ""Fiddler on the Roof"" written in 1964 by composer Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick. Lyricist Sheldon Harnick said: The album ""Sheldon Harnick: Hidden Treasures (1949-2013)"" features the demo recording of ""Sunrise, Sunset"" featuring Harnick, accompanied by composer Jerry Bock. Harnick said ""This CD set is supposed to be the unknown songs, and the two men who created it, Bill Rudman (ph) and Ken Bloom (ph), when they said they wanted to use ""Sunrise, Sunset,"" I said but that's a very familiar song. They said not with you singing it."""
"ABC's Disney television movie ""Bride of Boogedy"". Frey died at the age 49 of an AIDS-related illness in New York on August 24, 1988. Leonard Frey Leonard Frey (September 4, 1938 – August 24, 1988) was an American actor. He is best remembered for his performance in the 1971 film ""Fiddler on the Roof"", which earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination. Frey made his stage debut in an Off-Broadway production of ""Little Mary Sunshine"" and received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play nomination for ""The National Health"". Frey was born in Brooklyn,"
"Juster for the musical ""The Phantom Tollbooth"", based on the book by Juster. The musical premiered at the Kennedy Center in 2007. Sheldon Harnick Sheldon Harnick (born April 30, 1924) is an American lyricist and songwriter best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock on musicals such as ""Fiddler on the Roof"". Harnick began his career writing words and music to comic songs in musical revues. One of these, ""The Merry Minuet"", was popularized by the Kingston Trio. It is in the caustic style usually associated with Tom Lehrer and is sometimes incorrectly attributed to Lehrer. Sheldon Mayer Harnick"
"for two of his best-known works, ""La Damnation de Faust"" and ""Les Troyens"". Alban Berg adapted Georg Büchner's play ""Woyzeck"" for the libretto of ""Wozzeck"". Sometimes the libretto is written in close collaboration with the composer; this can involve adaptation, as was the case with Rimsky-Korsakov and his librettist , or an entirely original work. In the case of musicals, the music, the lyrics and the ""book"" (i.e., the spoken dialogue and the stage directions) may each have their own author. Thus, a musical such as ""Fiddler on the Roof"" has a composer (Jerry Bock), a lyricist (Sheldon Harnick) and"
"Shows ranging from ""Fiddler on the Roof"" to ""Sweeney Todd"" have been argued as being concept musicals, though there is little critical agreement. The concept musical has direct ties to the megamusical, which has similar roots in the Andrew Lloyd Webber work ""Cats"", and the similarly plotless revue. Mirroring the social upheaval of the 1960s and beyond, the concept musical as a form provided a means of expression and experimentation for musical theatre writers and audiences alike. “The term 'concept musical' did not appear in theatrical scholarship until after 1970, when the phrase “conceived by” preceded Michael Bennett’s name in"
"Joseph Stein Joseph Stein (May 30, 1912 – October 24, 2010) was an American playwright best known for writing the books for such musicals as ""Fiddler on the Roof"" and ""Zorba"". Born in New York City to Jewish parents, Charles and Emma (Rosenblum) Stein, who had immigrated from Poland, Stein grew up in the Bronx. He graduated in 1935 from CCNY, with a B.S. degree, then earned a Master of Social Work degree from Columbia University in 1937. He began his career as a psychiatric social worker from 1939 until 1945, while writing comedy on the side. A chance encounter"
"while questioning the place of religion in this unfettered age. The story follows two young couples, of secular upbringing, from North America to Jerusalem as they come to grips with their religion. Ronnie Cohen wrote the music and lyrics. The musical was first produced by La MaMa E.T.C. in 1998. Anita Gates described the play as ""lovable"" and ""a terrific original work"" in a ""New York Times"" review. ""Fiddler Sub-Terrain"", another musical collaboration with Ronnie Cohen, is a contemporary satire of ""Fiddler on the Roof"" set in the backdrop of politics in Quebec, Canada. It was produced in 2001 by"
"Best Musical, score, book, direction and choreography. It spawned five Broadway revivals and a highly successful 1971 film adaptation and has enjoyed enduring international popularity. It has also been a popular choice for school and community productions. ""Fiddler on the Roof"" is based on ""Tevye (or ""Tevye the Dairyman"") and his Daughters"", a series of stories by Sholem Aleichem that he wrote in Yiddish between 1894 and 1914 about Jewish life in a village in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia at the turn of the 20th century. It is also influenced by ""Life Is with People"", by Mark"
"Her first husband was Robert Schlick; they married in 1930 and divorced in 1955. She remarried in 1955 to fellow artist George Theodore Hartmann; he died in 1976. She had one son, Lorenzo Bianco Schlick, who became a dancer best known for appearing in ""Fiddler on the Roof"" on Broadway and in the film version. Larry Bianco (as he was known professionally) died in April 1994, and Pamela Bianco died later that same year, at the age of 87. A retrospective Larry bianco exhibition of Pamela Bianco's works was mounted in 2004 in London. A small collection of her papers,"
"as of 2010. Richard Pletcher, founder and producer, dedicated The Round Barn Theatre stage to Stein in 1997 during its production of ""The Baker's Wife"". His greatest success came from writing the book for the 1964 musical play ""Fiddler on the Roof"", for which he won three major awards, including two Tonys. He later wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation. Stein's additional Broadway credits include ""Alive and Kicking"", ""Mr. Wonderful"", ""The Body Beautiful"", ""Juno"", ""Take Me Along"", ""Irene"", ""Carmelina"", ""The Baker's Wife"", ""Rags"", ""Enter Laughing"" and its musical adaptation, ""So Long, 174th Street"". He also wrote the plays ""Mrs."
"Hofesh Shechter Hofesh Shechter (born 3 May 1975) is an Israeli choreographer, dancer and composer based in London. He is best known for being the founder and artistic director of the Hofesh Shechter Company. Shechter was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Choreography in 2016 for his work on Bartlett Sher's revival of ""Fiddler on the Roof"". Since 2016, he has been named as one of The Stage's 100 most influential people in theatre. Hofesh Shechter was born in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1975. At 6, Shechter began to study piano, later developing an interest in folk dance aged 12."
"of ""Fiddler"" titled, ""Fiddler, Please!"", with an all-black cast dressed in ""Fiddler on the Roof"" costumes singing ""It's Hard to Be Jewish in Russia, Yo"". Chabad.org kicked off their 2008 ""To Life"" Telethon with a pastiche of the fiddle solo and bottle dance from the musical. Broadway references have included ""Spamalot"", where a ""Grail dance"" sends up the ""bottle dance"" in ""Fiddler""s wedding scene. ""The Producers"" (2001) includes a musical number in the style of Jerry Bock that features an actual fiddler on a roof. Also in 2001, Chicago's Improv Olympic produced a well-received parody, ""The Roof Is on Fiddler"","
"him the Townshend Harris Medal in 2004; and Encompass New Opera Theatre, which honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. Joseph Stein Joseph Stein (May 30, 1912 – October 24, 2010) was an American playwright best known for writing the books for such musicals as ""Fiddler on the Roof"" and ""Zorba"". Born in New York City to Jewish parents, Charles and Emma (Rosenblum) Stein, who had immigrated from Poland, Stein grew up in the Bronx. He graduated in 1935 from CCNY, with a B.S. degree, then earned a Master of Social Work degree from Columbia University in 1937."
"Lee Pelty Lee Pelty (4 May 1935 – 29 November 2009) was an American musical theatre actor, best known for his performances in numerous productions of ""Fiddler on the Roof"", ""Man of La Mancha"", ""1776"", and more. Because of audience demand, Pelty most frequently appeared to sold-out crowds at the Old Candlelight Dinner Playhouse in Chicago. Born in Colon City, Panama as Isaac Lee Peltynovich (Pelty), he attended Purdue University as a member of the class of 1957. In addition to his studies, Pelty sang with the Purdue University Varsity Men's Glee Club directed by an imaginative showman named Al"
"Michele Marsh (actress) Michele Marsh (born December 20, 1946), sometimes credited as Michèle Marsh, is a French-American television, theater, and film actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Hodel, the second of Tevye’s five daughters who falls in love with a student radical, in the 1971 film ""Fiddler on the Roof"". She has acted mainly in television and in West Coast theatre. She now resides in Idyllwild, California, where she performs with the Idyllwild Actors Theatre. She was born Michèle Noelle Buhler in Mulhouse, France, to Swiss composer Philippe Henri Buhler (born 1919, Lausanne, Switzerland) and Colette Jeanne"
"Sholem Aleichem Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish and , also spelled in Soviet Yiddish; Russian and ) ( – May 13, 1916), was a leading Yiddish author and playwright. The musical ""Fiddler on the Roof"", based on his stories about Tevye the Dairyman, was the first commercially successful English-language stage production about Jewish life in Eastern Europe. The Hebrew phrase ""shalom aleichem"" literally means ""peace be upon you"", and is a greeting in traditional Hebrew and Yiddish. Solomon Naumovich (Sholom Nohumovich) Rabinovich () was born in 1859 in Pereyaslav and grew up in"
"Leonard Frey Leonard Frey (September 4, 1938 – August 24, 1988) was an American actor. He is best remembered for his performance in the 1971 film ""Fiddler on the Roof"", which earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination. Frey made his stage debut in an Off-Broadway production of ""Little Mary Sunshine"" and received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play nomination for ""The National Health"". Frey was born in Brooklyn, New York. After attending James Madison High School, he studied art at Cooper Union, with designs on being a painter, before switching to acting"