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From 1964 to 1972, "Fiddler On The Roof" became the longest running musical on Broadway with a record-setting total of 3,242 performances in it's first run. During it's original run, the production earned $1,574 for every dollar invested in it. It has seen 4 Broadway revivals in 1976, 1981, 1990 and 2004 with yet another scheduled for the fall of 2015. It won 9 out of 10 Tony Awards it was nominated for in 1964 (and in 1972, the show won a special Tony on becoming the longest-running musical in Broadway history). The show spawned a million selling soundtrack album and a 1971 film adaptation. It opened in the west end of London 1967, at Her Majesty's Theatre and played for 2,030 performances. The London production was revived in 1983 at The Apollo Victoria Theatre, in 1994 at The London Palladium and in 2007 at the Savoy Theatre. The show has toured the US, the UK, Australia, France, Spain and Israel. It also saw a run from April to October 2013 at The Stratford Shakespeare Festival.

"Sabbath Prayer" is performed by the main character Tevye & his wife Golde. Set the village of Anatevka in Imperial Russia of 1905, the story centers on Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attempts to maintain his family and Jewish religious traditions while outside influences encroach upon their lives moving the community further away from the customs of his faith, news of pogroms and expulsions — and finally the edict of the Tsar that evicts the Jews from their village.

My first involvement in a production of "Fiddler" was in 1972 in High School and I have since been in the pit orchestras of Dinner Theatre and touring productions. The show remains one of my favorite musicals to perform, led only by "Man of La Mancha" and "Caberet".

Sabbath Prayer (from Fiddler On The Roof)
~ Zero Mostel & Maria Karnilova ~