Town Hall, Armidale -
\n\nSeptember 1978
\n\nMusical Direction by Elizabeth Wadleigh
\nProduced by Keith Aubrey
\nChoreography by Margaret Coggan
\n\nBased on the Sholem Aleichem stories by special permission of Arnold Perl. Book by Joseph Stein. Music by Jerry Bock. Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. By special arrangement with Music Theatre International, New York.
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\n\nSYNOPSIS
\n\nThe action takes place in Anatevka, an impoverished peasant village in Tsarist Russia, populated largely by hard-working Jewish families. Tevye, the dairyman - a pious man and his wife Golde have raised five daughters.
\n\nYente, the matchmaker, tells Golde that the wealthy Lazar Wolf, the butcher, wants to marry the eldest daughter, Tzeitel. Golde is delighted at the prospects of such a good match.
\n\nTevye meets Perchik, a young student and aspiring social reformer. He offers the penniless student food if the young man will give lessons to his daughters.
\n\nTevye meets Lazar Wolf at the local inn and finally agrees to let the marriage take place. His rejoicing is brought to a halt by the Constable who warns him of an impending demonstration to be held against all Jews in the district.
\n\nIn the meantime Tzeitel is promising her own hand to the poor tailor Motel and when they inform Tevye of their plans he is shocked that they have broken with tradition. Realising however that their love is genuine he relents and gives his blessing.
\n\nTevye, faced with the problem of informing his wife that Tzeitel will not be marrying into wealth, tells Golde that her long-deceased grandmother and Lazar's deceased wife Fruma-Sarah came to him in a dream and warned him to make a match with Motel, the tailor. Golde is convinced of the authenticity of the dream and the wedding of Tzeitel and Motel is celebrated in traditional style but its gaiety interrupted by the Russian police who carry out the threatened purge.
\n\nAct Two opens two months later. Motel and Tzeitel are poor but happy and now Perchik and Hodel are very much in love. Perchik informs Tevye that he wants to marry Hodel but must immediately join his compatriots in their revolutionary activities.
\n\nPresently news arrives that Perchik has been arrested in Kiev and has been sent to Siberia. Hodel decides to join him and takes leave of her family. The third daughter in the meantime has become attracted to the young Russian Fyedka and when it seems that the attachment will become permanent Tevye formally severs his ties with his daughter even though it hurts him deeply.
\n\nThe safe world which Tevye has struggled so hard to build for his family receives its greatest blow when he learns that the Tsar has ordered all Jews to evacuate their age-old home and move elsewhere. He, his family and his people move off to where they feel there will be not hatred and poverty. They begin their long journey to America as the curtain falls.
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\n\nMUSICAL NUMBERS
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\n\nAct 1
\n\n'Prologue - Tradition' - Chorus and Principals
\n'Matchmaker' - Tzeitel, Hodel, Chava
\n'If I Were a Rich Man' - Tevye
\n'Sabbath Prayer' - Tevye, Golde and Chorus
\n'To Life' - Tevye, Lazar and Chorus
\n'Dance' - Perchik, Hodel
\n'Tevye's Monologue' - Tevye
\n'Miracle of Miracles' - Motel
\n'The Dream' - Grandma Tzeitel, Rabbi, Tevye, Fruma-Sarah, Golde and Chorus
\n'Wedding Introduction - Sunrise, Sunset' - Golde, Tevye, Perchik, Hodel and Chorus
\n\nAct 2
\n\n'Now I Have Everything' - Perchik, Hodel
\n'Tevye's Rebuttal' - Tevye
\n'Do You Love Me?' - Tevye, Golde
\n'The Rumour' - Yente, Surcha, Mirala, Mendal, Avrahm and Chorus
\n'Far From the Home I Love' - Hodel
\n'Chava Sequence' - Tevye, Tzeitel, Hodel, Chava and Chorus
\n'Anatevka' - Principals and Chorus
\n\nSCENES
\n\nAct 1
\n\nScene 1: Kitchen in Tevye's House
\n\nScene 2: Exterior of Tevye's House
\n\nScene 3: Interior of Tevye's House
\n\nScene 4: The Inn
\n\nScene 5: Street Outside the Inn
\n\nScene 6: On a Bench Outside Tevye's House
\n\nScene 7: Tevye's Bedroom
\n\nScene 8: Village Street and Motel's Tailor Shop
\n\nScene 9: Section of Tevye's Yard
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\n\nAct 2
\n\nScene 1: Exterior of Tevye's House
\n\nScene 2: Village Street
\n\nScene 3: Exterior of Railroad Station
\n\nScene 4: Village Street
\n\nScene 5: Motel's Tailor Shop
\n\nScene 6: Outskirts of the Village
\n\nScene 7: The Barn
\n\nScene 8: Outside Tevye's House
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\n\nCAST
\n\nTevye the Dairyman: Ron Vickress, Golde his wife: Claire Keoghan, Tzeitel: Sue Burton, Hodel: Rhonda Burchmore, Chava: Alison Duguid, Shprintze: Patricia Keoghan, Bielke: Anne Vickress, Yente the Matchmaker: Els Coventry, Motel the Tailor: Alan Wilkinson, Perchik the Student: Errol Ingram, Lazar Wolf the Butcher: David Mink, Rabbi: Bill Howarth: Mendel his Son: David Grant, Avrahm: Ian Woodhouse,Grandma Tzeitel: Pat Kerr, Fruma-Sarah: Irene Fiori, Fyedka: Mark Hewitt, Constable: Roger Zohrab,Shaindel Motel's Mother: Patricia Campbell-Hardwick, Nachum the Beggar: Pat Kerr, The Fiddler: Laurie Pulley, Moishe: Stuart McKern, Label: Jock Coventry, Yussell: Mark Gawkroger, Yankel: Peter Smith,Shloime: Ken Fiori, Yakov: Adrian Smith, Yitzuk: Troy Fiori, Priest: Jack Savage, Surcha: Pat Smith, Mirala: Beryl Hamel, Fredel: Lyn Forbes, Sima: Wendy Chappell, Anya: Gemma White, Rivka: Isabel Powell,Bluma: Bronwyn Llewellyn, Berille: Theresa White
\n\nVillagers: Anne Mulcahy, Christine Pulley, Colleen White, Debbie Butler, Helen Mink, Joy Hamilton, Julie Burton, Margaret Frend, Pam Menzies
\n\nRussians: David Grant, Jack Coventry, Mark Gawkroger
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\n\nORCHESTRA
\n\nViolin 1: Anne Lewis, Eunice Allingham, Maurice Anker, Sister Cecilia, Violin 2: Alex Deme, Maxine Kirk, Renata Sturmer, Cello: Arpad Gott, Roeland Weisfelt, Piano: Robyn Driscoll, Flute: David Hawkins, Oboe: Simon Hawkins, Clarinet: Jim Hawkins, Trumpet: Ross Smallwood, Mandolin: Robert Moss, Percussion: John Grigg
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\n\nPRODUCTION TEAM
\n\nMusical Director: Elizabeth Wadleigh
\nProducer: Keith Aubrey
\nChoreography: Margaret Coggan
\nRepetiteur: Robyn Driscoll
\nStage Manager: Peg Leask
\nSet Construction: Stuart McKern
\nLighting: Tony Marjoram, Mike Rochester
\nCostumes: Frances O'Brien, Sylvia Pink
\nMakeup: Kath Brewster, Claire Dawson, June Dore, Robyn Busby, Wendy Kelly
\nPrompt: Barbara Delangre
\nProperties: Barbara McConville, Margaret Phipps
\nPublicity: Pat Smith
\nPosters: Gwenda Hardie
\nFront of House: Peter Robertson
\nStage Crew: Doug Lobban, Stewart Heffernan, Terry Packer
\nPhotography: Frank Anderson
\nCatering: Marie Rowlands, Noelene Sinclair
\nUshering: Mary Wright, Pam McWaters, Rita Farrell, Tracey Smith
\n\nTHANKS TO
\n\nThe Armidale College of Advanced Education for rehearsal venue
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