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Article: Staging of `Fiddler on the Roof' is a family affair.(Entertainment)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- July 11, 2004
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Byline: Paul Denison The Register-Guard
`Fiddler on the Roof' has always been a family musical. It's about a family, and your whole family can enjoy it.
But director Joseph Gilg is extending the concept for the Lane Summer Musical Theatre production that opens Friday at Lane Community College.
All of the usually nameless "villagers" in the cast now have names picked from stories by Sholom Aleichem, the Yiddish writer whose tales about Tevye and his daughters inspired the show. They also have trades: baker, bookseller, rabbi, hatter, baker, fishmonger, goldsmith and innkeeper. And they're grouped in families of three to five members.
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