Fiddler on the Roof (1964 Original Broadway Cast) | Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, ...

Fiddler on the Roof (1964 Original Broadway Cast) | Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, ... | Original Broadway Cast for Fiddler on the Roof

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	Fiddler on the Roof (1964 Original Broadway Cast) Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, ... RCA Victor Broadway, 1989 average customer review:based on 36 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

With classic songs like Sunrise, Sunset, this recording is wonderful!

Fiddler On The Roof is one of few Broadway productions that has truly stood the test of time. As I write this, yet another revival of the show is on Broadway. This original cast recording is a superb souvenir of the way the musical really should sound. Sure, some people may say that Zero Mostel was "braying" when he sang--but he wasn't playing an opera singer! He was playing a poor man without any real education--so where was the surprise that he didn't sound like Pavarotti? Zero and the rest of the cast did a wonderful job with this musical; and this CD proves it.

A great song depicting the very old fashioned life they lived is the opening number entitled "Tradition." Zero and the cast sing of how their lives are governed by tradition. With this song the characters tell the audience that although they may not understand why these traditions exist, these traditions provide the villagers with a structure for living life that they all can follow as peacefully as possible.

The CD has the songs of the musical in the order they are performed on the stage which is, of course, a tradition! (SMILE) The quality of the sound is excellent and there are several very touching songs to highlight this show about a Russian Jewish family at the turn of the last century. My personal favorite, a song that usually moves me to tears when I almost never cry, is "Sunrise, Sunset." In the song "Sunrise, Sunset," Zero Mostel and the others in the cast use a wedding as an opportunity to reflect on how fast time passes and how short our time on Earth actually is. The musical arrangement is very well done.

The closing number, "Anatevka," is especially powerful. When the villagers must leave their village of Anatevka to find other homes, presumably in the United States, they try to make the most of things with this song. They belittle the village that they actually cherish so much despite its problems; Zero remarks "Someone should have set a match to this place (Anatevka) years ago." The emotional pathos they face is underscored by the melancholy yet beautiful musical arrangement and the words to the song.

I highly recommend this CD for people who love listening to the original cast member versions of the classic Broadway plays and fans of Zero Mostel. Look also for Bert Convey as Hodel's husband to be. I only wish I had been there!

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Original Broadway Cast for Fiddler on the Roof

I had recently seen Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway with Harvey Firestein and Rosie O'Donnell. It was good but I was told that Zero Mostel and the original cast were far superior. I purchased the original CD through Amazon and substantiated their opinion.

Fiddler on the Roof, original Broadway cast recording

I want to say that I enjoyed about 70% of this CD, the other
30% is almost too quiet to be heard, If I wasn't already very
familiar with this music from listening to my record of the show, I wouldn't have known what was going on. What you can hear is very, very good. But, for instance, in the song Tradition, you can barely hear the female voices,so you don't hear about the mothers and the daughters. And in the song Matchmaker you can only hear the words of 2 of the daughters. It makes me think that when they were recording this CD the microphones for the women artists weren't turned on.
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Great!!!

I would give this c.d. 4 and 3/4 stars if I could. Three reasons why it is not 5 is that it doesn't include "Tevye's Monologue", "Tevye's Rebuttal", and (My most favorite song out of the show) "Chavaleh." I could live without the first two but the c.d. just seems to be missing something without "Chavaleh." But otherwise I love this c.d.

P.S. Let us pray the rerelease this album with the missings songs.

Pioneering Musical !

"Fiddler On The Roof" is an extraordinary musical that blew the critics and audiences away when it arrived in 1964.

While the recording of this cd could have been better, it, nonetheless, is a must-have for theatre fans.

Classic tracks of this score include:

Tradition
Matchmaker, Matchmaker
If I Were A Rich Man
Sunrise, Sunset
Do You Love Me?

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