Singer Needed for Gig "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. Tevye is the humble yet wise narrator and the story's main character. An impoverished milkman in the small village of Anatevka, Russia, circa 1905, he is the father of five daughters, husband to Golde, and a leader in his Jewish community.

Vocal Range: Mezzo/Alto (A3 – Eb5) Acting: Strong actor, good comic timing, exudes sarcasm 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) 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) Hodel becomes involved with Perchik and eventually leaves Anatevka to be with him in Siberia, where he is imprisoned for his reform activities. She and Perchik defy tradition by not asking permission to wed, only Tevye’s blessing. Hodel sings the haunting solo Far from the Home I Love as she says goodbye to her father at the train station.

Vocal Range: Soprano/Alto Chava is Tevye’s scholarly, middle daughter who loves reading. She falls in love with the Russian soldier Fyedka and elopes with him. This huge break from tradition breaks her father’s heart, and Chava becomes dead to him.

Vocal Range: Tenor (E3 - F#4) Acting: Great character role needing someone who can show Motel’s sensitive, nervous, but lovable character. Must have good comic timing and the ability to show vulnerability. Motel is the meek and very poor village tailor. He seeks the hand of Tevye’s eldest daughter, Tzeitel.

Vocal Range: Tenor (B2 – E4) Perchik is a visitor and outsider to Anatevka. He brings with him radical views that challenge traditions. Perchik and Hodel (Tevye’s second-oldest daughter) fall in love and again challenge Tevye’s beliefs.

Mainly speaking role Strong dancer preferred. 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.

Supporting Role Vocal Range: Mezzo/Alto (C4 – Eb5) 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 showstopper, and the actor must carry this challenging solo.

Vocal Range: Baritone (C3 – F#4) Acting: Strong, feisty actor with good comic skills. 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.

Vocal Range Soprano/Alto (F3 – F5) Acting: Strong comedic talents Yente is the village matchmaker. She is a widow and a meddling busybody who makes it her business to know all of the town gossip.

Vocal range: Mezzo/Alto (C#4 – D5) Acting: strong actor of Granny style! 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 the chorus as well.

The Constable, The Rabbi, Mendel, The Rabbi’s Son, Mordcha, The Innkeeper, Avram, The Bookseller Shaindel – Motel’s mother