Fiddler on the Roof

My favorite role, Tevye the Dairyman, played first on Vashon Island with a community theater group, then professionally with the Evergreen Theater Conservatory in Seattle. Tevye's a fierce fighter for his people, his daughters, his religion, but bewildered by such modern things as "love" and new challenges to the old ways. A demanding and fun part, in a musical that still has the highest highs and the lowest lows of any musical I know.

Clockwise from upper left:

Do you love me? Golde (Karen Brusletten) and Tevye realize that after 25 years of marriage, never having really thought about it, they just might love each other.

Tevye and Lazar Wolf (Jess Thompson) at the inn. Tevye thinks Lazar wants to buy his new milk cow, while Lazar slowly gets to his point: he wants to marry Tevye's oldest daughter Tseitel. The dialogue makes for some delicious double entendres.

Tevye decides to break tradition and ask his wife Golde to dance with him at their daughter Hodel's wedding.

Tradition! Tradition! Tevye introduces the little town of Anatevka to the audience, proudly proclaiming that it is tradition that has kept these people from falling down like a fiddler on the roof and breaking their necks!

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