DIRECTOR'S NOTES:

Fiddler on the Roof has so many wonderful themes and concepts that truly fit the world we live in today.  It is timeless in the written word and in the lyrics of the music.  Fiddler on the Roof is the quest of Tevye to reconcile with a changing world and yet maintain a hold on his beliefs and values.  As a director, I wanted each character to play a masterful part in this new and changing world.  Each person, who interacts with Tevya, carries a small light of change that helps him to realize change - the simple and the difficult -- brings growth, not the destruction of beliefs and values.  At the heart of Tevya's story is family - five daughters, three of which grow up and choose partners out of the traditional boundaries.  But Tevya finds comfort in the love of family, which holds true, even in difficult circumstances.  

I found this to be a relevant play as we struggled through this last year of the pandemic.  As a world we struggled  with loss of life, masks, shut downs, working from home, and the curtailing of events that brought entertainment and comfort, I believe we also found comfort in the simple, less dramatic world and in family.  Personally, I find comfort in the story of Tevya and his family, which, at it's most basic, is not so different from ours -- learning to cope in a world without many of our tried and true traditions.

But beneath it all, I hope we, as a cast, can share the power and strength of Tevya's family and friends in Anatevka to our world...a little town called Tooele.

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