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Returning yearbook staff members
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With the Spring Production of

Fiddler on the Roof

Just before the

Sabbath, Tzeitel (Jen

Auger) tries to convince

Motel (Delbert Mitten)

to ask her father for her

hand in marriage.

However, Motel gives

the excuse that because

he is "only a poor

tailor" Tevye will not let

Building upon the success and production was due in part to the her marry him.

the interest generated with last immense popularity of the musi- Because the custom

year s production of the Fontas- cal, however, the real reason for was for the parents to

ticks, the music club chose Fid- its success was the way the Lord arrange their children's

marriages, Tevye chose

dler on the R o o f for the spring worked through the students and

a husband for Tzeitel

production. Acknowledged by directors," said Jill Head. before Motel worked up

many to be the College's most Each member of the produc- enough courage to ask

successful production, the musi- tion helped put together a bril- for her hand.

cal, with its cast and crew of liant interpretation of Joseph

students, faculty, and staff, was Stein's story of a Russian Jewish The Russians and Jews

enjoy a time of short­

one of the semester's highlights. family as they live under the
lived peace as they

Beginning in January, a cast persecution of the tsar's rule
celebrate Teyve's

of thirty-two students and music around the turn of the century. announcement of

professor Mr. Ron Billingsley Tevye, father of five daughters, Tzeitel's engagement to

began putting numerous hours tries to hold his family together Lazar Wolfe.

into the production. Ticket sales while keeping his traditions

and advertising by students, intact. "I liked the fact that the

faculty, and staff helped to fill actors looked like they enjoyed

the gymnasium for Friday and their roles. The characters really

Saturday night performances on came alive on the night I saw the

March 22 and 23. Two sold-out production, " said junior Melissa

evenings made it possible for a Shorb. Indeed, the characters

third production to take place on did enjoy their roles. Despite

the following Monday. Family long hours of rehearsal, which

members came from as far away cut into homework time, work
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as Pennsylvania. Nearly a thou- schedules, and any possible free
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sand members of the community time, the participants admitted

attended the Monday night per- that the thrill of accomplishment

in formance. "The success of the was worth the effort.

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