Fiddler On The Roof Father Son Role

Was nominated for broadway s 1991 tony award as best actor musical for a revival of fiddler on the roof a role he had previously played twenty years earlier in an oscar nominated performance in the film version of the same title fiddler on the roof 1971.

Fiddler on the roof father son role. His daughter anat played the role of chava in a 1995 production of fiddler on the roof alongside her father. Broadway fiddler on the roof revival will for one performance feature michael bernardi in his late father s trademark role of tevye. 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 or around 1905. Now having played tevye he feels more complete.

Strong patriarch but gentle father of five daughters closely raised according to the scriptures. When fiddler on the roof premiered in poland in 1985 the show s authors donated their royalties to preserving the country s jewish monuments. Through fiddler on the roof michael psychically connects with his father and his grandfather berel bernardi who was an actor in the yiddish theatre. Jerome robbins directed many landmark broadway musicals peter pan west side story gypsy et al.

But the 1964 smash hit fiddler on the roof was his most personal. As the narrator and main character of this story tevye is the father of five daughters an impoverished milkman a leader in his jewish community and husband to the headstrong golde he is faced with struggles to uphold the traditions of his people especially through the marriages of his daughters. Tevye pronounced tev yeh m 40 60 singing speaking ab2 f5 lead role narrator and main character in the show likable hardworking pious man dairyman who sees the positive side of life. I loved seeing herschel bernardi play tevye in fiddler on the roof in the 1960 s and it was a great pleasure to speak to his son michael who played the role in the broadway revival he also appears in a brief but very compelling role in marshall the film about one of thurgood marshall s early criminal cases.

As tevye s wife of twenty five years and mother of his five daughters golde.