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| Photo by Kirstine Christiansen |
If there ever was a character in
theatre who one feels compelled to root for, it has to be Tevye, the nearly
impoverished milkman who resides in Anatevka, a small village in Czarist Russia
in 1905. His strong-willed wife has a
sharp-tongue, and he is struggling to house, feed and clothe his five daughters. The
three oldest of them eschew deeply ingrained Jewish traditions to which Tevye
so desperately tries to cling in favor of pursuing lives of their own fueled by
changing social mores. And on top of
that, Tevye and his family as well as the other Jews in Anatevka face constant
anti-Semitism and intimidation from Russia’s Czar.
That is the fundamental
storyline in the classic musical Fiddler
on the Roof, which is now playing at Toby’s, the Dinner Theatre of
Columbia. This production has enough gusto
and energy to light that village of Anatevka and perhaps some of Columbia’s
villages as well.
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