FIDDLER ON THE ROOF Comes To The Canon Theater 12/8-1/10/2010

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, the Tony Award® winning musical that has captured the hearts of people all over the world with its universal appeal, comes to Toronto's Canon Theatre for a strictly limited engagement, December 8 - January 10, 2010. Toronto audiences will have a once in a lifetime opportunity to see Jerome Robbins' original Broadway direction and choreography, complete with the star of the originAl West End production and the 1971 film, Chaim Topol.

Topol and FIDDLER ON THE ROOF were both nominated for the Academy Award in their respective categories. While enlisted in the Israeli Army, Topol won the 1972 Golden Globe for his performance in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. In 1983 Topol reprised the role of Tevye in a London revival and in 1990 he again played the part in a Broadway revival, and was nominated for a Tony Award® for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical.

"Without our traditions, our lives would be as shaky as...as a FIDDLER ON THE ROOF," announces Tevye, a humble milkman from the Russian village of Anatevka. And so begins a tale of love and laughter, devotion and defiance, and changing traditions.

A perennial hit since it first opened in 1964, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF has enjoyed critical acclaim for bringing to the stage a poignant story about the enduring bonds of the family. This timeless musical brings the wit and wisdom of Tevye and his family to audiences with the reproduction of Jerome Robbins' famous masterpiece. In 1965 Jerome Robbins won matching Tony Award®s for his direction and choreography of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Both are recreated by Director Sammy Dallas Bayes, choreographer of the Broadway Revival.

Tevye's wrestling with the new customs of a younger generation is punctuated by an unforgettable score that weaves the haunting strains of "Sunrise, Sunset" and the rousing "If I Were A Rich Man" with the exuberant "Matchmaker, Matchmaker" and triumphant "Tradition." When his daughters choose suitors who defy his idea of a proper match, Tevye comes to realize, through a series of incidents that are at once comic and bittersweet, that his children will begin traditions of their own. At the story's close, the villagers of Anatevka are forced to leave their homes and even the sturdy mores that have guided everyday life begin to crumble. Paradoxically, it is the enforced loss of the rigid traditions and home life that Tevye has tried so tenaciously to preserve that leads the family to reconcile and draw closer still.

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. Almost forty five years and a generation later, new audiences can identify and take heart as they experience the tradition in great musical theatre that is FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF will play for a strictly limited engagement at Toronto's Canon Theatre from December 8 - January 10, 2010.

Tickets: $26.00 - $120.00

Tuesday - Saturday at 7:30 PM - Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday at 1:30 PM

 

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