Fiddler On The Roof Wine Bottle Dance

Talent not tricks makes this bit if theatre magic work.

Fiddler on the roof wine bottle dance.

He observed one man entertaining a crowd by tottering around with a bottle on his head. If you have ever seen jerome robbins famous bottle dance you may have wondered how do they do that. In 2001 chicago s improv olympic produced a well received parody the roof is on fiddler that used most of the original book of the musical but replaced the songs with 1980 s pop songs. A friend of mine ryan was called in to audition for one of those men in fiddler on the roof.

The famous bottle dance is not a. The cinematography is simply amazing from the dim interior lighting to the slow motion dance steps to the dust being kicked up from the dirt floor during the dance sequence. Broadway references have included spamalot where a grail dance sends up the bottle dance in fiddler s wedding scene. Matthew rossoff matthew kilgore robbie roby rick pessagno the company in a scene from the famed bottle dance in fiddler on the roof now playing at best of broadway photo by joan marcus joan.