While there are many scenes of both immense emotion and rich comedy, the overall grandiosity of this production at times seems in contradiction to the actual roots of the work.
Dancers fly during Barrie Kosky’s production of “Fiddler on the Roof” at the Lyric Opera House.
While there are many scenes of both immense emotion and rich comedy, the overall grandiosity of this production at times seems in contradiction to the actual roots of the work — a tale that unfolds in Anatevka, a Jewish shtetl in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia, circa 1905. The show’s opening scene immediately signals a sense of change as instead of the usual “fiddler on the roof,” it is a young boy, clearly of this moment in time, who zips on stage on a motor scooter. He is played by Drake Wunderlich, a gifted, self-assured 5th grader and award-winning violinist in the Chicago Youth Symphony’s Concert Orchestra.
But there is far greater upheaval still to come in the form of an order from the local Russian officials that the Jews of Anatevka must leave their homes in three days. And so the diaspora from their beloved town begins, with the great pile of doors, beds and other furniture whittled down to practically nothing, and Tevye, his wife, and their two youngest daughters headed to America.
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