‘It’s a new world, a new world. Love.’
It’s 1905 in the tiny village of Anatevka where Tevye, a Jewish milkman, lives his life by their proud traditions. For his five daughters, that means a visit from the matchmaker… But as each daughter challenges his beliefs, against the backdrop of a changing world, can Tevye hold on to his roots, or must he bend to the will of his children and learn to embrace the unfamiliar?
In a new production directed by Jordan Fein (Oklahoma, Young Vic), and featuring glorious songs, ‘If I Were A Rich Man’, ‘Tradition’, ‘Matchmaker’ and ‘Sunrise, Sunset’, this classic musical of joy, revolution and community is an exuberant celebration of love and life.
Presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International.
__Assisted performances__
BSL - Tuesday 3rd September, 7:45pm
Captioned - Friday 6th September, 7:45pm
Audio Described with Touch Tour - Saturday 31st August, 2:15pm
Adam Dannheisser forgoes the showmanship that’s usually associated with the benevolent patriarch for a line-up of dad jokes and winks thrown at the audience. He towers over everybody, acutely sardonic yet suitably sombre. Dannheisser introduces a devoted, profound man who loves his family and secretly always seeks his wife’s approval. It’s Lara Pulver’s rebuttals as Golde that make his outdated worldviews and backhanded misogyny sting a little less than they would otherwise. She is a force of nature, revealing a powerful voice and an arresting presence.
Choreographer Julia Cheng keeps the best of Jerome Robbins’s work (like the famous bottle dance) while adding grit: one drunken reveller does a split jump off a table while spitting vodka. Mark Aspinall’s superb orchestrations find new details in the kletzmer-esque score, while onstage violinist Raphael Papo and Bristow, who supplies plaintive clarinet-playing, add to the spine-tingling atmosphere.
1964 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
1967 | West End |
London Production West End |
1969 | US Tour |
Bus and Truck Tour US Tour |
1976 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
1981 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
1983 | West End |
London Revival West End |
1990 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
1994 | West End |
London Revival West End |
2004 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
2007 | West End |
London Revival West End |
2009 | US Tour |
Touring Revival US Tour |
2010 | US Tour |
Troika Entertainment National Tour US Tour |
2011 | US Tour |
Touring Revival US Tour |
2015 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
2018 | Off-Broadway |
National Yiddish Theatre Production Off-Broadway |
2018 | West End |
London Revival at Menier Chocolate Factory West End |
2019 | Off-Broadway |
NYTF Off-Broadway Production at Stage 42 Off-Broadway |
2019 | West End |
West End Revival West End |
2019 | US Tour |
2019 Revival Tour US Tour |
2022 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway Return Production Off-Broadway |
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