Programme 1980 – Fiddler on the Roof

“Fiddler on the Roof”

HASTINGS OPERATIC SOCIETY
1980 PRODUCTION

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“Fiddler on the Roof”

The Hastings Operatic Society welcomes you to this production of “Fiddler on the Roof.” Your part in it is as important as anybody’s and we hope that the performance will reward your coming.

PRESENTED BY HASTINGS OPERATIC SOCIETY UNDER DIRECT NEGOTIATION WITH MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL LTD. NEW YORK.

The Jews of Anatevka, a village In Tzarist Russia, are peasants. Tevye, the dairyman, tells how their strength derives from age-old TRADITION.

At home, his wife Golde, and five daughters prepare for the Sabbath. Yente, the matchmaker, tells Golde the butcher, Lazar, hopes to marry Tevye’s eldest daughter, Tzeitel, Golde is delighted but fears Tevye won’t approve. Tzeitel, in love with the tailor, Motel, can only guess what Yente proposes. With her sisters, Hodel and Chava, she sings MATCHMAKER, MATCHMAKER.

Meanwhile, Tevye, obliged to pull his cart because his horse is lame, sings IF I WERE A RICH MAN. He meets Perchik, a student, who agrees to teach Tevye’s daughters in exchange for food. He joins the family in the peace of SABBATH PRAYER.

Tevye joins Lazar at the Inn and is persuaded to let Tzeitel marry Lazar. The men sing the toast: TO LIFE.

Tzeitel begs Tevye not to insist on the match. She and Motel confess to a secret betrothal. Tevye is shocked: the papa should choose his daughter’s husband. But impressed by Motel’s courage and the depth of Tzeitel’s feelings, gives his consent. Motel sings: MIRACLE OF MIRACLES.

Prompted by respect for Golde’s bitter tongue, Tevye chooses the middle of the night to tell her of the change. Pretending a nightmare, he tells how Fruma-Sarah, Lazar’s first wife, and her own Grandma Tzeitel, long since dead, appeared in his sleep. Golde, reduced to terror, agrees Motel is the man for Tzeitel: THE DREAM.

At the height of the traditional wedding, SUNRISE SUNSET, Russian demonstrators smash the gifts. Troubles spread. Perchik joins the fight against the Tzar, but first asks Hodel to marry him: NOW I HAVE EVERYTHING. Tevye, again unable to resist a daughter, gives his blessing. Timidly he breaks the news to Golde: DO YOU LOVE ME?

The village hears Perchik has been arrested and sent to Siberia. Hodel joins him there: FAR FROM THE HOME I LOVE.

The Tzar decrees all Jews must leave Anatevka in three days. Even Tevye, whose third daughter Chava, married a Russian, cannot be spared. The villagers mourn for the sorry place which has been their home: ANATEVKA. They leave to start new lives in Poland, the Holy Land, America …

THE HASTINGS OPERATIC SOCIETY (INC.)
(Affiliated Member of N.Z. Federation of Operatic Societies)

“Fiddler on the Roof”

BY ARRANGEMENT WITH
Music Theatre International
119 West 57th Street, New York. N.Y. 10019 U.S.A.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
based on Sholem Aleichem stories by special permission of Arnold Perl
Book by JOSEPH STEIN Music by JERRY BOCK Lyrics by SHELDON HARNICK
Produced on the New York Stage by Harold Prince
Original New York Stage Production Directed and Choreographed by JEROME ROBBINS
Original choreography reproduced by Donna Morrison
“Revolving stage, scenery, costumes and properties designed and made by Wanganui Amateur Musical & Dramatic Society Inc., from designs inspired by David Smiles.”

DIRECTOR:
Pat Snoxell

MUSICAL DIRECTOR:
Bob Gowing

CHOREOGRAPHER:
Donna Morrison

CHORUS MISTRESS:
Nanette Roberts

ANATEVKA: A small village in Russia 1905, on the eve of the Russian Revolutionary period.

CAST in Order of their appearance

THE FIDDLER   Chris Bacchus
TEVYE, THE DAIRYMAN   Chris Gibbs
HOLDE, HIS WIFE   Greta Hawtin
HIS DAUGHTERS
TZEITEL   Bev Ward
HODEL   Karen Wright
CHAVA   Anne Tunnicliffe
SHPRINTZE   Susan Armstrong
BIELKE   Tracey Murray
YENTE, THE MATCHMAKER   Olive Gibbs
MOTEL, THE TAILOR   Brian Overend
PERCHIK, THE STUDENT   Erin Ketel
LAZAR WOLF, THE BUTCHER   Andy Pegg
MORDCHA, THE INN KEEPER   Laurie O’Donoghue
RABBI   Eric Reay
MENDEL, HIS SON   Bob Lester
AVRAHM, THE BOOKSELLER   Ernie Stuart
NACHUM, THE BEGGAR   Bruce Lennox
FRUMA-SARAH   Nanette Roberts
GRANDMA TZEITEL   Jean Campbell
CONSTABLE   Peter Pangari
FYEDKA   Kevin Thomas
SHAINDEL   Helen Date
STUDENTS   Craig Ansell
Andrew Lennox

PAPAS
Brian Doyle
Bruce Lennox
Brian Morrison
Laurie O’Donoghue
Ernie Stuart
Geoff Treacher

MAMAS
Jean Campbell
Helen Date
Frances Franco
Freda Milne
Margaret Percy
Olwyn Walker
Jenny Leu-Williams

SONS
Geordie Burns
Lindsay Crawford
Graham Hilton
Bob Lester
Michael Morgan
Brian Overend
Richard Tankersley

DAUGHTERS
Veronica Adamson
Sandra Apperley
Adele Bevan
Janet Brown
Stacey Devoy
Maria Morgan
Elizabeth Pegg

RUSSIANS
Brian Morrison
Peter Pangari
Kevin Thomas

LEAD DANCER
Daran Rumbal

DANCERS
Craigh Ansell
Lindsay Craig
Ray Dudding
Gregg Karena
Adrian Kurta

BOTTLE DANCERS
Daran Rumbal
Greg Karena
Adrian Kurta

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF ORCHESTRA

1st Violins:
Enid Dunn
Charlie Jukes

2nd Violins:
Stuart Myers
Ann Willink

3rd Violin:
Win Bickerstaff

Viola:
Norma Smith

Cellos:
Meg Trotter Davidson
Francie Turner

Double Bass:
Leon Speakman

Oboe:
Karen Allport

Flute:
Mary Hodgetts

Clarinets:
Gerald Ashby
John Reed

Accordian [Accordion]:
Jan Beck

Trumpets:
Stuart Boston
Graeme Harrington

Trombone:
Wayne Myhill

Flugel Horn:
Ted White

Piano:
Ruth Sweatman

Percussion:
Graham Harrison

MUSICAL NUMBERS

ACT ONE
1:   Prologue   “Tradition”
2:   “Matchmaker”
3:   “If I were a Rich Man”
4:   “Sabbath Prayer”
5:   “To Life”
6:   “Tevye’s Monologue”
7:   “Miracle of Miracles”
8:   “The Dream”
9:   “Sunrise Sunset”
10:   Bottle Dance
11.   Wedding Dance

ACT TWO
1:   “Now I Have Everything”
2:   “Tevye’s Rebuttal”
3:   “Do You Love Me?”
4:   “The Rumour”
5:   “Far From the Home I Love”
6:   “Chava Sequence”
7:   “Anatevka”

ACT ONE
PROLOGUE:
SCENE 1:   KITCHEN IN TEVYE’S HOUSE
SCENE 2:   EXTERIOR OF TEVYE’S HOUSE
SCENE 3:   INSIDE TEVYE’S HOUSE
SCENE 4:   THE INN
SCENE 5:   OUTSIDE THE INN
SCENE 6:   TEVYE’S BACK YARD
SCENE 7:   TEVYE’S BEDROOM
SCENE 8:   STREET AND MOTEL’S SHOP
SCENE 9:   TEVYE’S BACK YARD

ACT TWO
PROLOGUE:
SCENE 1:   OUTSIDE TEVYE’S HOUSE
SCENE 2:   VILLAGE STREET
SCENE 3:   RAILWAY STATION
SCENE 4:   STREET AND MOTEL’S SHOP
SCENE 5:   OUTSIDE TEVYE’S HOUSE
SCENE 6:   SOME DAYS LATER
SCENE 7:   EXODUS.

PRODUCTION PERSONNEL

We welcome Pat Snoxell from Palmerston North as our director. Pat has had a wealth of experience directing over 50 productions large and small, amateur and professional. The whole company has enjoyed working with Pat and we are sure you, the audience will enjoy this production of “Fiddler on the Roof.”

This is Donna Morrison’s first big show and we are fortunate to have such a talented choreographer to train the cast in the intricate movements. Donna has teaching qualifications and is presently teaching classical ballet, National, modern and tap. We thank her for her patient untiring efforts.

The chorus has been trained by Nanette Roberts whose sure hand was evident also in last year’s production “The Sound of Music”. Her painstaking efforts have achieved a high standard and we thank Nanette for the hours she has spent. She also appears as Fruma-Sarah, Lazar Wolf’s first wife.

Once again Bob Gowing is our Musical Director – his eighth production for our Society. As well as the overall supervision of the musical side Bob has also had the 20 piece orchestra to rehearse. Thank you Bob for your months of dedication to this great musical.

Wardrobe Mistress
Sybil Reay assisted by Jean Campbell,
Barbara Dean

Dressers
Barbara Dean
Maureen O’Donoghue
Yvonne Whitburn
Nada Broomhead
Judy Taylor
Louis Nairn
Roslyn Wray
Annette Pledger
Jill Heu
Kay O’Shaughnessy
Marjorie Jamieson

Production Secretary
Anne Wallace

House Manager
Jack Hannon

Properties
Jeanne Hall,
Kevan Broomhead
Moira Reay
Maureen Hopkins

Make Up
Minnie Wright
Dawn McCowatt
Fiona Gudby
Teresa Wright
Trish Green
Debbie Lucas
Moire Bewley

Call Stewards
Belinda Percy,
Annette Whiting

Prompt
Leah Hawtin

Stage Manager
Syd Taylor

Stage Crew
Oliver Christoffersen, Lindsay Craig
David Austin, Bruce Mellis, Stuart Doig, Murray Bridges, Derek Rolls, Malcolm Smith, Carl Jamieson, Pearce Williams, Les Silvester

Lighting
Cedric Wright, Peter Bade, Mike McConnell

Suppers
Evelyn Overend and Helpers

Front of House Staff
Members of the Society

“Fiddler on the Roof”

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS   STANTON PRINT   NAPIER FRIVOLITY MINSTRELS   D. H. McDONALD.
DENTON, ANDERSON, MacKAY & DONOVAN   WANGANUI MUSICAL & DRAMATIC SOC.
HERETAUNGA INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL   INSTA-COLOR LTD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
HASTINGS CITIZENS BAND   H.B. REGIONAL ORCHESTRA   NAPIER OPERATIC SOCIETY
Mrs SHERWOOD FOR LOAN OF SEWING MACHINE MADE 1894 and many others too numerous to mention.

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