Posted on May 17, 2023
Fiddler on the roof - If I were a rich man (with subtitles)
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One of our favorite plays. Can't count the number of times we've seen it but one of the most memorable was in the early 70s on Cape Cod with Leonard Nemoy playing the lead.
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Sunrise Sunset, quickly fly the years. Each one following another laden with happiness and tears. Tevya, get off the roof!
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Fiddler on The Roof
Playbill from the original Broadway production
Music Jerry Bock
Lyrics Sheldon Harnick
Book Joseph Stein
Basis Tevye and His Daughters
by Sholem Aleichem
Productions
Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in or around 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Dairyman) and other tales by Sholem Aleichem. The story centers on Tevye, a milkman in the village of Anatevka, who attempts to maintain his Jewish religious and cultural traditions as outside influences encroach upon his family's lives. He must cope with the strong-willed actions of his three older daughters who wish to marry for love; their choices of husbands are successively less palatable for Tevye. An edict of the tsar eventually evicts the Jews from their village.
SGT Charlie Lee
Playbill from the original Broadway production
Music Jerry Bock
Lyrics Sheldon Harnick
Book Joseph Stein
Basis Tevye and His Daughters
by Sholem Aleichem
Productions
Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in or around 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Dairyman) and other tales by Sholem Aleichem. The story centers on Tevye, a milkman in the village of Anatevka, who attempts to maintain his Jewish religious and cultural traditions as outside influences encroach upon his family's lives. He must cope with the strong-willed actions of his three older daughters who wish to marry for love; their choices of husbands are successively less palatable for Tevye. An edict of the tsar eventually evicts the Jews from their village.
SGT Charlie Lee
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Grammar lesson from song..."were" is used because Tevye imagines wealth as a future state. "Was" is not the right word because it means past state.
https://blog.iconlogic.com/weblog/2007/12/grammar-works-2.html
https://blog.iconlogic.com/weblog/2007/12/grammar-works-2.html
Grammar Workshop: If I Were a Rich Man...
by Jennie Ruby This is a memory aid for this week's conundrum: "if I was" versus "if I were." Either of these can be correct, depending on the situation. The difference between these two expressions is that one is talking...
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