Revived ‘Fiddler’ coming to Easton’s State Theatre

thoughtful, celebratory and enduring.”

The original Broadway production of “Fiddler,” which opened in 1964 with Brooklyn’s Zero Mostel in the lead role of Tevye, was the first musical in history to surpass 3,000 performances. The show won the Tony Award for Best Musical and eight other Tonys.

The tour of the Tony Award-nominated Broadway revival of “Fiddler on the Roof” is coming to the State Theatre Center for the Arts in Easton on the nights of April 24 and 25.

The classic musical from Tony-winner Joseph Stein and Pulitzer Prize winners Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick is revived here by a cast working under Tony-winner Bartlett Sher, director of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “South Pacific,” and “The King and I.”

The revival introduces a new generation to the story of Tevya the Russian shtetl dairyman and the timeless songs, like “If I Were a Rich Man,” “Sunrise, Sunset” and “Tradition,” that have been adored by so many.

“This ‘Fiddler’ is like its characters,” wrote the Chicago Sun Times: “resilient,

Several years later, Chaim Topol, the Tel Aviv native who died in early March at age 87, fronted a “Fiddler” cast for an even larger audience. With a tone more serious than Mostel’s, he played the pious Jewish dairyman for the 1971 film adaptation, whose studio scenes were shot in London, where he’d starred in the original West End production in 1967.

Tickets for the State Theater shows are on sale at statetheatre.org and 610252-3132.