Actors Needed for Musical "Fiddler on the Roof"

Vocal Range: Tenor/Baritone (Ab2 – F5) Acting: VERY strong actor who must carry the show and have a strong connection to the audience. He is the heart and conscience of Fiddler on the Roof. Movement: move well. Songs: Tradition, If I Were a Rich Man, Sabbath Prayer, To Life, Tevye’s Monologue, The Dream, Sunrise Sunset, Tevye’s Rebuttal, Do You Love Me?, Chava Sequence, Anatevka.

Vocal Range: Strong Tenor (E3 - F#4) Acting: Great character role needing someone who can show Motel’s sensitive, nervous but loveable character. Must have good comic timing and the ability to show vulnerability. Movement: move well. Songs: Miracle of Miracles (solo), Tradition, Anatevka.

Vocal Range: Tenor (B2 – E4). Acting – Strong acting skills. Actor must show intensity and an unfailing commitment to his radical beliefs. He should be able to hold his own against Tevye as he clashes with him idealistically. He is also likeable, charming and ultimately an accepted part of Tevye’s family. Movement: move well. Songs: Now I Have Everything (solo), Tradition, Sunrise, Sunset.

Mainly speaking role with featured Tenor solo in “To Life” (Soloist could be cast separately). Acting: Good actor who can use a Russian accent. Gentle with Chava but stands up to Tevye. Movement: Strong dancer preferable. Dances a Russian dance in “To Life”. Fyedka is a Russian soldier who falls in love with Chava, Tevye’s third oldest daughter. He and Chava elope because Tevye cannot accept this total break in Jewish tradition.

Vocal Range: Baritone (C3 – F#4). Acting: Strong, feisty actor with good comic skills. Movement: move well. Songs: Tradition, To Life, Sunrise, Sunset, Anatevka. Lazar Wolfe is the brawny and feisty butcher of Anatevka. He is the town’s wealthiest citizen. He is the same age , if not older than Tevye and by the tradition of parental arranged marriages, is matched with Tzeitel, Tevye’s eldest daughter. He loses Tzeitel to Motel and is very resentful.

Non-singing role. Acting: Strong character role. The constable is a Russian military official stationed near Anatevka. He knows the villagers well and even likes some of them, especially Tevye. These superficial relationships do not prevent him from violence against the Jewish villagers and eventually he carries out orders for a pogrom in which the Jewish citizens are forced to leave Anatevka.

Small mostly acting role. Songs: Tradition, The Dream, Anatevka. The Rabbi is the Jewish spiritual leader.

Small mostly acting role and part of chorus. Songs: Tradition, Sunrise, Sunset, The Rumour, Anatevka.

Small acting role and part of chorus. Songs: Tradition, Sunrise, Sunset, The Rumour, Anatevka. Mordcha runs the local bar and is a friend of Tevye.

Small acting role and part of chorus. Songs: Tradition, Sunrise, Sunset, The Rumour, Anatevka.

Vocal Range: Tenor Very strong Russian soloist.

The beggar.

The town hatter.

Sasha and Boris – Fyedka’s fellow soldiers and his friends.

Sasha and Boris – Fyedka’s fellow soldiers and his friends.

Vocal Range: Mezzo/Alto (A3 – Eb5). Acting: Strong actor, good comic timing, exudes sarcasm. Movement: Moves well. Songs: Tradition, Sabbath Prayer, The Dream, Sunrise, Sunset, Do You Love Me ?, Anatevka. Golde is Tevye’s strong –willed wife who hopes for good matches for her daughters, so they have easier lives than she and Tevye. She is the strength behind Tevye and keeps the household going.

Vocal range: Soprano/Alto (B3 to D5). Acting: Strong dramatic actor. Movement: move well, part of Chava’s dance sequence. Songs: Matchmaker, Tradition, Anatevka, plus some chorus songs. Tzeitel is the first daughter to challenge tradition. She is madly in love with Motel, The Tailor and in a desperate crying scene persuades her father to let her marry Motel in spite of the fact that Tevye has made her a match with Lazar Wolfe who is old enough to be her father.

Vocal Range: Soprano with strong chest voice (B3 – E5). Acting: Strong dramatic actor. Movement: move well. Songs: Far From the Home I Love (solo) , Matchmaker, Tradition, Sunrise, Sunset, Now I Have Everything. Hodel becomes involved with Perchik and eventually leaves Anatevka to be with him in Siberia where is imprisoned for his reform activities. She and Perchik defy tradition by not asking permission to wed, only Tevye’s blessing.

Vocal Range Soprano/Alto (F3 – F5). Acting: Strong comedic talents. Movement: move well. Songs: Tradition, Sunrise, Sunset, The Rumour, Anatevka. Yente is the village matchmaker. She is a widow and a meddling busy-body who makes it her business to know all of the town gossip.

Age range: 60 – 75 Vocal range: Mezzo/Alto (C#4 – D5) Acting: strong actor. Movement: move well. Songs: The Dream. Grandma Tzeitel is Golde’s deceased grandmother who appears as a ghost in the Dream Sequence. She has a great solo in which she endorses the marriage of Tzeitel to Motel. The person who plays this role will double as chorus as well.

Vocal Range: Mezzo/Alto (C4 – Eb5). Acting: very strong. Movement: move well. Songs: The Dream. Fruma-Sarah is Lazar Wolfe’s dead wife who appears as a ghost in the dream sequence to warn Tevye and Golde not to allow Tzeitel to marry her husband or dire results will befall the family. Her solo is a show stopper and the actor must carry this challenging solo.

Motel’s mother.

Small stature. Move well.

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