Fiddler on the roof this rousing musical based on the stories of shalom aleichem takes place in pre revolutionary russia and centers on the life of tevye topol a milkman who is trying to keep his family s traditions in place while marrying off his three older daughters.
Perchik fiddler on the roof lines.
Yente rifka i have such news for you remember perchik that crazy student.
But here in our little village of anatevka every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant simple tune without breaking his neck.
Opening lines a fiddler on the roof.
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.
May the lord smite me with it.
We re told the two became close after she.
At tevye s home everyone is busy preparing for the sabbath meal.
Remember at the wedding when tzeitel married motel and perchik started dancing with tevye s daughter hodel.
Money is the world s curse.
Again a hard choice for traditional papa.
And may i never recover.
Perchik and hodel ask for tevye s blessing.