Thursday – Saturday June 11th – 13th 7:00 pm
Sunday June 14th 2:00 pm
Thursday – Saturday June 18th – 20th 7:00 pm
Sunday June 21st 7:00 pm
Tickets are $10.00 and available at Peter and Annie’s or at the ETC door.
ETC presents the classic Broadway Hit Musical Fiddler on the Roof the 2nd and 3rd weekends in June. Jerry Bock, Joseph Stein and Sheldon Harnick have adapted Sholom Aleichems stories of Tevye the Dairyman to this wonderful family play. Best known songs from this play include If I were a Rich Man and Sunrise, Sunset but there are another dozen or so songs that you may find yourself humming upon leaving the theater.
Fiddler depicts the life of Tevye and Golde and their five daughters and other friends as they make their way as Jews in pre revolutionary Russia, about 1905. Much of the story focuses on the marriages of three of the daughters, each one threatening tradition more than the last, as well as increasing troubles with the Russian authorities.
Dan Hoffman plays the lead the first week and Ron Ruppel the second week, and Val Dehline plays the part of Golde. Their daughters are played by Bethany Nash, Zoe Hopkins-Hile, Lauren Dehline, Caitlin Harris and Natasha Rodriguez.
Kelsey Pederson plays The Fiddler on June 11, 14, 19 and 20, and Anna Ruth Haugen plays The Fiddler on June 12, 13, 18 and 21. Hope Vicich is Yente the Matchmaker, and Jim Kerr is Lazar Wolf. Conor Erb, Josh Thornwall and Micah Weltzin play the grooms and Jeanne Beck, Jamie DeGolier and Abraham Ortiz are other soloists. Nathan Thornwall, Aaron Effertz, Micah Weltzin, Juliana Braml, Josh Thornwall and Abraham Ortiz are principal dancers. Other villagers and Russians include Margritte Graf, Kate Stone, Mariah Capra, Lindsey Bangsberg, Livia Barker, Melissa Haugen, Cheryl Buechner, Anna Ostenson, Alaura Thornwall, Quinn Buechner, Steve Wickre, Roger Hilde, Tom Toftness, Corey Graf, Mike Clay, Jason Baker, Jakob Braml, Falisity Buechner, Dakota Buechner and Craig Bucher.
Dave Evenson directs and John Westin is the Musical Director. The pit band includes Marty Voshell, Lisa Barker, Kelsey Pederson, Anna Ruth Haugen, Shawn Muench, Gary Dorn, Nancy Keeler and Eric Westin. Choreographers are Catherine Tuminaro and Chris Hopkins-Hile and other cast members.