Fiddler on the roof is a musical based on sholem alacheim s tales tevye and his daughters.
The lame horse in 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 or around 1905.
Tevye the philosophical village milkman explains the customs of the jewish people and their lives in the russian shtetl of anatevka in 1905 where life is as precarious as the perch of a fiddler on a roof tradition at tevye s home everyone is busy preparing for the sabbath meal.
In doing so he slowly pedantically drags it through anatevka a small village in cza.
Fiddler on the roof.
It talks about the traditions of the orthodox jewish community of anatevka.
For the film see fiddler on the roof 1971 film.
Tradition is the first song from fiddler on the roof.
His sharp tongued wife golde norma crane orders their five daughters 19 year old tzeitel.
Zero mostel tevye maria karnilova golde austin pendleton motel kamzoil bea arthur yente michael granger lazar wolf joanna merlin tzeitel.
The lyrics to the song are written below.
It is sung by tevye.
This is about the stage musical.
A lame horse milk in need of delivery and the danger of starvation.
Tevye the central character in fiddler on the roof must pull a milk cart by himself because his horse is lame.