Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and book by Joseph Stein set in Tsarist 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 family and Jewish religious traditions while outside influences encroach upon their lives.
author
Joseph Stein
award
Tony Award for Best Musical, Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, Tony Award for Best Original Score
This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Fiddler on the Roof"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.