At tevye s home everyone is busy preparing for the sabbath meal.
Fiddler on the roof synopsis musical.
We meet a jewish family where the poor milkman has five daughters and sharp tongued wife preparing for shabbat dinner.
Synopsis tevye topol 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.
Fiddler on the roof as the play begins tevye a jewish milkman tells of the customs in the little russian town of anatevka.
Synopsis based on sholom aleichem s tevye and his daughters fiddler on the roof is the beloved story of the small tradition steeped town of anatevka russia where jews and russians live in delicate balance.
It is 1905 and life here is as precarious as a fiddler on the roof yet through their traditions the villagers endure.
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.
At tevye s home everyone is busy preparing for the sabbath meal.