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Gaiety Theatre Dublin D irec to rs : E a m o n n A ndrew s. L orc an B ourke. F red O ’D o n o v a n . D erm o d Cafferkv
Commencing Monday, 24th April, 1972 EAMONN ANDREWS STUDIOS presents
F id d ler on the R oof
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w A GAIETY EVENING FIRST ACT Meet in the Gaiety. Have a drink in comfort belore the show. Bars open 7.30 p.m. O rder and pay for drinks for the interval.
INTERVAL Your drinks are ready and waiting for you at your table. Y ou’re saved time and trouble.
ENCORE Relax alter the show. Have a drink. The bars are always open for half an hour after curtain fall.
FINALE
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W e trust you enjoyed your Gaiety evening rn ma a n a in I come again!
Licenced Bars on all Floors.
G A 3E T Y T H E A T R E SO UTH KING STREET, DUBLIN 2 Telegrams : Gaiety Dublin
Telephone : 771717
Resident M anager JO E KEARNS
Evenings at 8 p.m.
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Matinees at 3 p.m.
EAMONN ANDREWS PRODUCTIONS LTD. (By arrangement with Chappell & Co. Ltd.)
present
BRENDAN
McSHANE
in the musical
FSDDLER ON T HE ROOF Based on Shalom Aleichem stories. Book by JOSEPH STEIN Music by JERRY BOCK Lyrics by SHELDON HARNICK Presented on the New York Stage by Harold Prince. Entire New York Production Directed and Choreographed by Jerome Robbins.
with
HEATHER PATRICIA HO UG H,
FIONNUALA HOUGH,
ENA HARROLD, SEAN M URPHY, DODO O'HAGAN,
HEWSON JO HN CONROY,
CAM ILLUS M O UNTAINE, M AURICE O ’SULLIVAN,
HUBERT O'CONNOR. Direction reproduced by JAM ES BELCHAMBER Choreography reproduced by ALICE DALGARNO Musical Director TERRY O’CO NNO R Settings by ROBERT HEADE Chorus Master ROBERT DALY
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF The story of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF is adapted from the stories of SHOLOM ALEICHEM by Joseph Stein, who gained one of the ten awards achieved by the show. He s a y s : ‘Just as M arc Chagall expressed the lives, the dreams, the aspirations of his people in his art, Sholom Aleichem put them into his stories. He was the folk-singer of the ‘sh te tl’ those small ram shackle poverty-stricken Jewish villages in Czarist Russia. His little tales caught the hunger, the humour, the irony of a people m aintaining an absurd pride under desperate circum stances. Like so many children of im m igrants to A m erica and western Europe, I was raised on the tales o f Sholom Aleichem , and when Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, myself and ou r d ire c to r Jerom e Robbins decided to attem pt a contem porary m usical play based on his TEVYE stories we knew we w ould need to move far from them in content but we resolved, as well as we were able, to remain true to the feeling and the s p irit of the original. Since its first perform ance in New Y ork in 1964 T h e F id d le r’ has travelled round the w orld, having been presented in Finland, Israel, Holland, Den mark, Australia, Japan, C zechoslovakia, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Austria, M exico and France. The London prem iere was on February 16 1967. Tevye is the m ilkm an of Anatevka. He has a loving but sharp-tongued wife, five lovely but unm arried daughters, a faithful but lame horse, a friend ly but oppressed village. He has no money but he is on speaking term s with God. Anatevka in the Ukraine, just south of anywhere, is unremarkable, only a m eandering jum ble of dis mal houses hedged by corn and w heat fields, sprinkled w ith a m arket place, a butcher shop a smithy, a synagogue, a Hebrew school, a tanner, a ta ilo r and a tavern. There is also a fidd ler on the roof. He is there, just like the village and just like Tevye, trying to scratch out a pleasant sim ple tune w ith out breaking his neck. It’s the tradition, and the people of Anatevka sing o f it.
MUSICAL NUMBERS
AC T I T RADITIO N
Tevye and the Villagers. M ATCHM AKER , M A T C H M A K E R
Tzeitel, Model and Chava. IF I WERE A RICH MAN
Tevye. SA B B A T H PRAYER
Tevye, Golde and the Villagers. TO LIFE
Tevye, Lazar, Fyedka and Men. M IR AC LE OF MIRACLES
Motel. TH E TAILOR, M O T E L K A M Z O IL
Tevye, Golde, Grandma Tzeitel, Fruma Sarah and the Villagers. SUNRISE, SUNSET
Tevye, Golde and the Villagers. BO T T L E DANCE
Shloime, Yitzuk, Hershei and Schmeril. W E D D IN G DANCE
The Villagers.
ACT II NOW I HAVE EVERYTHING
P erchik and Model. DO YOU LOVE M E ?
Tevye and Golde. I J U S T HEARD
Yente and the Villagers. FAR FROM THE H O M E I LOVE
Model. ANA TE V K A
Tevye, Golde, Yente, Lazar, Mendel and Avram. EPILOGUE
Entire Company.
F id d ler on the R oof TEVYE (The Milkman) GOLDE (his wife) (Their daughters) : TZEITEL HODEL CHAVA SHPRINTZE BIELKE YENTE (the matchmaker) MOTEL (the tailor) SHANDEL (Motel’s mother) PERCHIK (the student) LAZAR WOLF (the butcher) MORDCHA (the innkeeper) RABBI MENDAL (Rabbi’s son) AVRAM (bookseller) NACHUM (beggar) GRANDMA TZEITEL FRUMA SARAH CONSTABLE FYEDKA SASHA and THE FIDDLER CITIZENS OF ANATEVKA: Misses Ann Crossan, Margaret Creed, Maeve McCartan, Mary Magee, Frances Barrett, Catherine Lawlor, Elizabeth Macauley, Angela McBrien, Mary McCann, Ann Walsh.
Messrs. Tommy O'Dwyer, Patrick Gibbs, Ed. Delaney, Brian Reidy, Henry Kennedy, Brendan Galvin, Bernard Gorman, Noel Magee, Raymond Ryan, Martin Kelly, Pat Lawlor, Joe Bevan, Brendan Frier, Charles Kingston, Joseph O’Connor, David Whelan, John Fullam, Richard O’Reilly, Declan Daly.
BRENDAN McSHANE HEATHER HEWSON PATRICIA HOUGH FIONNUALA HOUGH ENA HARROLD JUDY FALKNER JILL DOONEY DODO O’HAGAN JOHN CONROY EVA STAVELEY SEAN MURPHY MAURICE O’SULLIVAN PAT CAMPBELL CHRIS BRUTON PASCHAL WALSH . TOM SINGLETON ] MICHAEL CULLEN DOLORES BARRY ENA BOYLAN HUBERT O’CONNOR CAMILLUS MOUNTAINE DERMOT MALONEY DAVID MATTHEWS
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RUSSIAN DANCERS: Messrs. Brendan Freir, Pat Gibbs, Bernard Gorman. BOTTLE DANCERS: Messrs. Tom Singleton, Henry Kennedy, Brendan Freir, Pat Gibbs.
The Place : Anatevka, a village in Russia. The T im e : 1905, on the eve of the revolutionary period.
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F o r G aiety Stage Manager : Asst. Stage Manager : Stage Electrician :
T h ea tre PADDY JONES GEORGE McFALL SEAN BURKE
Lighting Equipment by BOURKE, STRAND ELECTRIC LTD. Costume care by LYK-NU of the Green. The public may leave at the end of the performances by all Exit doors. Persons shall not be permitted to stand or sit in any of the gang-ways intersecting the seating, or to sit in any of the other gangways (Copy of bye-laws). The taking of photographs in the auditorium is strictly prohblited.
Musical D ire c to r:
TERRY O ’CONNOR, L.R.A.M. Choreography reproduced by
ALICE DALGARNO Settings designed and executed by
ROBERT HEADE C o stu m es:
THEATRICAL COSTUMES HOUSE (W estcliffe) Ltd. Chorus M a s te r:
ROBERT J. DALY Wardrobe M a s te r:
PAT LAWLOR Wardrobe Mistress :
CYNTHIA TAYLOR Public R e latio ns:
GLADYS MacNEVIN Stage D ire c to r:
BETTY LONG Assistant Stage Directors :
DAPHNE MILLAR, PAULA RYAN, TERRY McLOUGHLIN B lo ck Booking Enquiries to FRED TAYLOR. Tel. 981249 CREDITS : Hairstyle tor Miss Fionnuala Hough by PETER MARK, Grafton Street. Glass Ware supplied by C. M. WILSON LTD. Tankards supplied by GILBEYS LTD., Naas Road. Cheese supplied by MITCHELSTOWN CREAMERIES.
Direction reproduced by
JAMES BELCHAMBER
COMMENCING TUESDAY, 16th MAY, 1972 Evenings at 8 p.m.
Matinees at 3 p.m.
EAMONN ANDREWS PRODUCTIONS present
JACK MacGOWRAN NIGEL ANTHONY FRANK BARRIE in
The Caretaker by
HAROLD PINTER
Directed by GUY VAESEN Produced by FRED O’DONOVAN Prices £1.25, £1, 75p, 50p.
Matinees 85p, 70p, 55p, 40p.
BOX OFFICE OPEN DAILY 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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