![]() ![]() UNIDENTIFIED GROUP #1: (Singing) Tradition, tradition, tradition, tradition, tradition, tradition.ĭAVIES: Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock also wrote the Broadway musicals "Fiorello!," a musical about political corruption "She Loves Me," a love story between two pen pals set in Budapest and "Tenderloin," set in the red-light district of 1860s Manhattan. ![]() You may ask, why do we stay up there if it's so dangerous?ĭAVIES: That's Zero Mostel in the original Broadway cast recording of "Fiddler On The Roof." It ran for 3,242 performances, which, at the time, was a Broadway record. ZERO MOSTEL: (As Tevye) A fiddler on the roof - sounds crazy, no? But in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof, trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. In 1964, he and his writing partner, composer Jerry Bock, brought to life a small Jewish village in Czarist Russia. ![]() One of Broadway's great lyricists, Sheldon Harnick, died last week at the age of 99. ![]()
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