Performing Arts Fort Worth and Casa Manana Present FIDDLER ON THE ROOF 3/9-14

Performing Arts Fort Worth and Casa Manana welcome back the family-friendly musical FIDDLER ON THE ROOF to Bass Performance Hall March 9-14, 2010. Single tickets are $30-$75, and will go on sale Monday, January 18, at 10:00 a.m.

Starring in the lead role as iconic milkman Tevye will be Harvey Fierstein, who replaces Chaim Topol, who left the production last year due to a shoulder injury. Mr. Fierstein played Tevye in the recent, critically acclaimed Broadway production of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Audiences now have the rare opportunity to see the TONY Award-winner embrace one of his favorite roles in this Jerome Robbins-inspired production.

The Toronto Star says Fierstein's Tevye, "taps into the deep vein of love and compassion that makes this one of the greatest musicals ever written," and that the production itself is "supremely well constructed."

Mr. Fierstein has won four TONY Awards, including Best Book of a Play and Best Actor in a Play for Torch Song Trilogy. His most recent win was the 2003 TONY for Best Actor in a Musical for the Broadway production of Hairspray.

In addition to his TONY Award-winning role in the Torch Song Trilogy, Mr. Fierstein recreated the role in the film adaptation, thus winning him an Independent Spirit nomination as Best Male Lead. His other film work includes Mrs. Doubtfire, Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway and Independence Day.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF has captured the hearts of people all over the world with its universal appeal and timeless message. The North American Tour continues the tradition of the 1964 Jerome Robbins, TONY Award-winning production. Mr. Robbins won twin TONY Awards for his direction and choreography of Broadway's FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. In this National Tour, both are faithfully recreated by director Sammy Dallas Bayes, choreographer of the Broadway Revival.

When FIDDLER ON THE ROOF opened in 1964, it was a time of change and crumbling traditions in our own country. Perhaps the explanation for its world-wide success in the ‘60s and ‘70s was that the play illustrated the universality of such problems as the "generation gap," youthful dissent, revolutionary doctrine and the oppression of minorities. Students of the time identified with the rebellious student, Perchik, and strongly related to the breaking of hallowed traditions. Tevye and others of his time struggled with these problems in 1905, and emerged triumphant, offering the hope and promise of reconciliation to a turbulent society. Today, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF is as relevant as ever.

Now, in the midst of a new millennia, in a world fraught with anxiety and fear, the one constant humanity can rely on is the strength of family and of its traditions that will ultimately sustain it through its own trials and tribulations. Forty-five years and a generation later, new audiences can identify and take heart as they experience the tradition in great musical theater that is FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.

To charge tickets by phone, call (817) 212-4280 in Fort Worth; 1-877-212-4280 (toll free) outside Fort Worth; or order online at www.basshall.com or www.ticketmaster.com. Tickets are also available at the Bass Performance Hall ticket office at 525 Commerce Street. Ticket office hours: Tuesday through Friday 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. and Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Discounts are available for groups of 15 or more.

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