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Joseph Stein

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Fiddler on the Roof Summary

Joseph Stein's book for Fiddler on the Roof represents the author's best known and most successful work in musical comedy. It was one of the last big successes in an era of great musicals on Broadway. Following its debut on September 22, 1964, at the Imperial Theatre, Fiddler ran for 3242 performances, achieving the longest run for a musical up to that time. This success was ironic considering the play's producers' initial fears that, due to...

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Fiddler on the Roof

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Fiddler on the Roof One of the most important musicals of the 1960s, in many ways Fiddler on the Roof represents the end of the classic mid-twentieth century American musical theater. The tale of Tevy... Read more

Fiddler on the Roof

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Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein Jn the early 1960s, writer Joseph Stein teamed up in America with composer Jerry Bock and poet Sheldon Harnick to create the musical Fiddler on the Roof. Stein, ... Read more

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