The run closed July 2, 1972
- Opened
- September 22, 1964
- Closed
- July 2, 1972
- Performances
- 3,242
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Imperial Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 1st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Fiddler on the Roof 5 more that season
| 1976 | Winter Garden Theatre Revival · Jerome Robbins | 167 perf. |
| 1981 | New York State Theatre Revival · Jerome Robbins | 53 perf. |
| 1990 | Gershwin Theatre Revival | 241 perf. |
| 2004 | Minskoff Theatre Revival · Jerome Robbins | 781 perf. |
| 2015 | Broadway Theatre Revival · Bartlett Sher | 472 perf. |
Who was in it147 named
Joe Ponazecki
Joseph Sullivan
John C Attle
Sue Babel
Robert Berdeen
Lorenzo Bianco
Duane Bodin
Robert Currie
Sarah Felcher
Tony Gardell
Louis Genevrino
Ross Gifford
Dan Jasin
Sandra Kazan
Thom Koutsoukos
Sharon Lerit
Paul Lipson
Sylvia Mann
Peff Modelski
Irene Paris
Marilyn Rogers
Linda Ross
Charles Rule
Carol Sawyer
Zvee Scooler
Roberta Senn
Mitch Thomas
Helen Verbit
Kip Andrews
Don Atkinson
Mel Auston
Jane Bergere
Jennie Lou Blackton
Felice Camargo
Ann C Davies
Edward Edwards
Fyvush Finkel
Gordon Gray
Clarence Hoffman
Ruth Jaroslow
Royce Lenelle
David Lober
Baruch Lumet
Ann Marisse
Joe Masiell
James Mcdonald
Tanny Mcdonald
Dutch Miller
Anna Perez
Maureen Polye
Naomi Riseman
Larry Ross
John Michael Savaige
Leslie Silvia
Stanley Soble
Florence Stanley
Renee Tetro
Louis W Waldon
Phyllis Wallach
Dolores Wilson
Kelly Wood
Victoria Wyndham
Pia Zadora
Boris Aplon
Peggy Atkinson
Adrienne Barbeau
Allan Byrns
Frank Coppola
Joe Cusanelli
Judith Doren
Susan Feldon
Del Franklin
David Garfield
Ben Gillespie
Allan Gruet
Jill Harmon
Rosalind Harris
Marta Heflin
Susan Hufford
Christine Jacobs
Dan Jasinsky
Mitchell Jason
Elaine Kussack
Don Lawrence
Peggy Longo
Paul Marin
Peter Marklin
David Masters
Pat Matera
Faye Menken
Carolyn Mignini
Richard Morse
Peg Murray
Jan Myers
Charlet Oberley
Victor Pieran
Mimi Randolph
Reuben Schafer
Martha Schlamme
Marc Scott
Harriet Slaughter
Judith Smiley
Ronn Steiman
Laura Stuart
Mimi Turque
Dan Tylor
Jan Peerce
Lee Arthur
Barry Ball
John Bartholomew
Roger Briant
Roger Brown
Bill Bugh
Peter de Nicola
Gretchen Evans
Sol Frieder
Carlos Gorbea
Pamela Greene
Ken Henley
Ed Linderman
Glen Mcclaskey
Donald C Moore
Wallace Munro
Maralyn Nell
Michael Petro
Judy Safran
Ann Tell
Fred Weiss
Michael Zaslow
21 of these 147 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 126 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Jerome Robbins
- Choreographer
- Jerome Robbins
- Producer
- Harold Prince
- Orchestrations
- Don Walker
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 9 from 10 nominations
| Best Musical | Won |
Around this production
When it played in Tokyo, the Japanese producers asked the authors, "Do they understand this in America? It\'s so Japanese."
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (REVIVAL—ZERO MOSTEL) ............ 276 FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (REVIVAL—HERSCHEL BERNARDI) ............ 280 More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 12
—Zero Mostel, on hearing that Fiddler received the Critics Circle Award
Speaker not recorded. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 106- FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (22 SEPTEMBER 1964, IMPERIAL, 3,242 PERFORMANCES). Music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, book by Joseph Stein, staged and choreographed by Jerome Robbins, presented by Harold Prince. Based on short stories by Sholom Aleichem, Fiddler on the Roof became the longest-running musical in Broadw… Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 142
- Nothing on the horizon seems likely to surpass A CHORUS LINE, but that’s what they said about FIDDLER ON THE ROOF [Sep- tember 22, 1964]. Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 585
- “Fiddler on the Roof” with Zero Mostel re-creating his original role. A Pictorial History of the American Theatre 1860 1985 Blum, p. 429
- The exquisite theatricality of Broadway's greatest musical is missing, and Topol's Tevye is humorless, heartless, and heavy, and Anatevka is peopled with Hollywood's idea ofJews. But the story and score are intact. Musical A Grand Tour the Rise Glory and Fall of An Flinn Denny Martin New York L, p. 526
- FIDDLER ON THE ROOF 3,242 performances Opened September 22, 1964; Closed July 2, 1972 Theatre World 2003 04 Season V 60 Willis, p. 291
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Fiddler on the Roof at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.