Fiddler On The Roof Sunnyvale

The sunnyvale community players will open its 49th season on saturday with the classic musical fiddler on the roof co directors matt welch and steve shapiro had a hand in selecting the show.

Fiddler on the roof sunnyvale.

The village of anatevka is home to a tight knit jewish community and at the center of the village is tevye the milkman. Excerpts from fiddler on the roof performed by the sunnyvale players orchestra featuring eric sun mastering the violin cadenza solo starts at 3 42 filmed live in october 2017. Times are changing though and his five daughters are eager to follow the new ways. When steve shapiro was thinking about which charity to raise money for as part of this year s production of the classic musical fiddler on the roof he didn t anticipate how deeply the eventual choice would resonate.

With dark times on the horizon the entire village must find ways to. One of broadway s most beloved musicals fiddler on the roof hits the sunnyvale theatre stage in just one month. As his daughters grow tevye works to maintain a sense of family in a quickly changing world. Eric sun plays the violin during a sunnyvale community players production of fiddler on the roof sun 33 says he was diagnosed with glioblastoma and has four months to live.

Behind the scenes rehearsal. Shapiro is the president of sunnyvale community players an entirely volunteer run nonprofit theater that offers four to five shows a year for an audience of more than 8 000. Winner of nine tony awards in its original run and successfully revived five times on broadway fiddler on the roof follows the struggles of tevye a poor dairyman in an early 1900s russian village who s doing his best to honor and maintain the jewish customs of his ancestors. Fiddler on the roof at sunnyvale theatre 2017.