By MARCY MILLER
What happens when a Russian-
Jewish peasant with five unmar-
ried daughters is put on the same
stage with a Yiddishe matchmaker
and a villageful of gossips?
If it's done under the watchful
eyes of Jerome Robbins and, in
absentia, Sholem Aleichem, you
get "Fiddler on the Roof," the
delightful new musical which
opened Monday for a month's
pre-Broadway run at the Fisher
Theater. It arrives in New York
Sept. 22.
Director-choreographer Robbins
brings to the production much of
the vitality and ingenuity that dis-
tinguished his "West Side Story,"
"On the Town," and other out-
standing Broadway hits, as well as
a warm and sympathetic under-
standing of the shtetl way of life
that springs from the Robbins
(Rabinowitz) family's own Russian
heritage.
Collaborating with Robbins on
the new musical are the young
composing team of Jerry Bock and
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"Tevye" stories the play is based,
with a self-effacing assist from
playwright Joseph Stein.
The daily life of a composite
Russian town, Anatevka, has
been transposed to the Fisher
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color" intact. Sabbath services,
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evitable matchmaking create a
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turn of the century, from the
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the outset that at his house in
Anatevka there is a fiddler on the
roof. Why? Who knows? But Tevye
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being a fiddler on the roof is that
one must maintain one's balance
without stopping the music.
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sent the gradual disintegration of
the traditional role of the father
in the preparing of his daughters'
marriages.
The eldest, Tzeitel, rejects her
father's match in favor of a
penniless but beloved local boy,
Motel the tailor (Austin Pendle-
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arranges her own match with a
young student of somewhat un-
orthodox tastes (Bert Convy),
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of some of the "dead wood" of
Jewish tradition. The third,
Chava, defiantly marries a non-
Jew, to the dismay and hurt of
her parents.
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