Broadway Fiddler Roof Show Tickets Information

Fiddler on the Roof is based on the stories by Sholem Aleichem and tells the tale of a Russian dairy farmer named Tevye, his wife Golde and the couples five daughters, as well as the friends and neighbors of the village known as Anatevka. The production opened on Broadway on February 26th, 2004 as a revival which was met with great attendance and buzz. Harvey Fierstein is the star of this revival of one of Broadway's classic theater venues. the story takes places at the end of the last century. With a very serious storyline of the Czar of Russia trying to empty his country of the Jewish population. The story takes place in Anatevka, a village in Russia, at the end of the turn of the century in 1905, with the revolutionary era about to begin. The storyline is quite simple and moving, about a peasant family in Russia with the revolution era about to come upon them. The musical score of the venue is one of it's strong points, boasting some of the classic songs of Broadway. The main idea which runs the shows storyline is the struggle to hold onto family traditions while a world is changing rapidly around them. An ideal which is challenged to every generation is what brings this story to hit the heart. The three daughters of the poor family begin to stray from tradition through marriage practices out of the families values, you see the struggle of a family trying to deal with changing times and ideas, as a countries czar is preparing for revolution and moving the Jewish population out of his country. With all the heavy undertones, what you realize is the family bond is stronger then all the changes which try to break it apart, with a musical score which really accents the experience. The Fiddler On The Roof is a Broadway classic and timeless venue. The production runs two hours and fifty minutes with one intermission. Broadway Fiddler on the Roof show tickets average price are about sixty-five dollars with the ticket high at one hundred and fifty dollars.