| Record ID: |
3846444 |
| Format: |
CD |
| Physical description: |
2 audio discs : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Date acquired: |
January 31, 2020
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| More creator details: |
music by Jerry Bock ; lyrics by Sheldon Harnick ; book by Joseph Stein ; based on Sholem Aleichem stories ; Yiddish translation by Shraga Friedman. |
| General note: |
Compact disc. |
| General note: |
Program notes by James Gavin, Jon Marans, and David Gordon, and synopsis (36 unnumbered pages : color portraits) inserted in container; lyrics with translations available at www.nytf.org/fiddler-lyrics. |
| Contents note: |
Disc 1, Musical numbers from the 2018 production. Traditsye = Tradition ; Act 1 scene change music after Traditsye -- Shadkhnte, shadkhnte = Matchmaker, matchmaker ; Scene change music after Shadkhnte, shadkhnte -- Ven ikh bin a Rotshild = If I were a rich man -- Shabes brokhe = Sabbath prayer ; Scene change music after Shabes brokhe -- Lekhayim = To life, lekhayim -- Es kumt a tog = Any day now -- Pertshik & hodl dance -- Zey hobn zikh gegebn dos vort = They made each other a pledge -- Nisimlekh-veniflo'oys = Miralce of miracles ; Der kholem = The dream ; Wedding intro -- Tog-ayn, tog-oys = Sunrise, sunset -- Wedding dance 1 -- Wedding dance 2 ; Entr'acte ; Itst hob ikh di gantse velt = Now I have everything -- Tevyes entfer = Tevye's rebuttal -- Libst mikh, sertse? = Do you love me? -- Der klang = The rumor -- Vayt fun mayn liber heym = Far from the home I love -- Khavele = Chavaleh -- Anatevke = Anatevka ; Curtain act 2 ; Bows ; Exit music. |
| Contents note: |
Disc 2, Cut songs from the original 1964 Broadway production (in English). We've never missed a sabbath yet -- What a life! -- To marry for love -- The richest man in town -- If I were a woman -- As much as that -- A butcher's soul -- Letters from America -- Dear sweet sewing machine -- Get thee out -- When Messiah comes -- Monologues from the 2018 production: Yente act 1 monologue after Traditsye -- Yente act 2 monologue after Anatevke (various vocalists). |
| Credits: |
National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, performer. |
| Performers: |
Starring Steven Skybell (Tevye) and Jackie Hoffman (Yente), with supporting performers of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene; orchestra; Zalmen Mlotek, conductor. |
| Date/place captured: |
Recorded 2018 November-December Manhattan Center Studios, New York City. |
| Electronic access: |
Lyrics |
