Fiddler On The Roof Sunnyvale

The village of anatevka is home to a tight knit jewish community and at the center of the village is tevye the milkman.

Fiddler on the roof sunnyvale. The sunnyvale community players will open its 49th season on saturday with the classic musical fiddler on the roof co directors matt welch and steve shapiro had a hand in selecting the show. As his daughters grow tevye works to maintain a sense of family in a quickly changing world. Cast list creative and crew list images reviews and production information. One of broadway s most beloved musicals fiddler on the roof hits the sunnyvale theatre stage in just one month.

Shapiro is the president of sunnyvale community players an entirely volunteer run nonprofit theater that offers four to five shows a year for an audience of more than 8 000. Excerpts from fiddler on the roof performed by the sunnyvale players orchestra featuring eric sun mastering the violin cadenza solo starts at 3 42 filmed live in october 2017. With dark times on the horizon the entire village must find ways to. Behind the scenes rehearsal.

When steve shapiro was thinking about which charity to raise money for as part of this year s production of the classic musical fiddler on the roof he didn t anticipate how deeply the eventual choice would resonate. Description sunnyvale community players is pleased to present fiddler on the roof winner of 9 tony awards in 1965 including best musical direction and book and in 1972 was presented with a special tony award for the longest running musical in broadway history. Eric sun plays the violin during a sunnyvale community players production of fiddler on the roof sun 33 says he was diagnosed with glioblastoma and has four months to live. Winner of nine tony awards in its original run and successfully revived five times on broadway fiddler on the roof follows the struggles of tevye a poor dairyman in an early 1900s russian village who s doing his best to honor and maintain the jewish customs of his ancestors.