Fiddler On The Roof Character Name Pronunciations

Fiddler on the roof character descriptions.

Fiddler on the roof character name pronunciations. Character description songs tevye the dairyman tevye is a likeable hard working pious man who sees the positive side of life. Ben sayevich professor of music at the university of kansas speaks the unfamiliar terms and names from the play. I m in a production of fiddler on the roof in my city and we ve been given the script but i m having trouble figuring out how to pronounce the character names so i m trying to organize a list. Strong patriarch but gentle father of 5 daughters he has raised according to the scriptures.

As the narrator and main character of this story tevye is the father of five daughters an impoverished milkman a leader in his jewish community and husband to the headstrong golde he is faced with struggles to uphold the traditions of his people especially through the marriages of his daughters. Hinsdale south high school in darien performs fiddler on the roof the story about the dairyman tevye in russia and the challenges to his traditions his family life and finding husbands for his. Tevye tev yuh yente yen tuh golde goal duh motel mottle chava hohv uh tzeitel zai tle hodel. He is humorous and relaxed but when pushed can show.

Tevye chava golde hodel lazar wolf perchik motel tzeital yente avram fruma sarah fyedka mendel shprintze bielke thanks for any help. Fiddler on the roof characters character name m f stage agesinging speaking vocal range character description shandel f 40 60 ensemble some speaking n a motel s mother and also part of the ensemble. I thought it would be a big help if there was a thread dedicated toward pronunciation of certain characters and location through out the musical fiddler on the roof here is a list of characters. As tevye s wife of twenty five years and mother of his five daughters golde.

Shprintze pronounced sprin za f 9 13 ensemble speaking b3 d5 tevye and golde s fourth daughter. He was interviewed by paul meier idea s founder and director. Meier s show specific accent coaching cds for fiddler on the roof one cd per character are available from paul meier dialect services while his russian and yiddish accent instruction ebooks are also available.