Tradition! The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, The World's Most Beloved Musical

by Isenberg, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780312591427
• ISBN10: 031259142X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-09-02
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Summary

Since it first opened on Broadway in September, 1964, Fiddler on the Roof has constantly been onstage somewhere, including four Broadway revivals, four productions on London's West End and thousands of schools, army bases and countries from Argentina to Japan. Barbara Isenberg interviewed the men and women behind the original production, the film and significant revivals-- Harold Prince, Sheldon Harnick, Joseph Stein, Austin Pendleton, Joanna Merlin, Norman Jewison, Topol, Harvey Fierstein and more-- to produce a lively, popular chronicle of the making of Fiddler. Published in celebration of Fiddler's 50th anniversary, Tradition! is the book for everyone who loves Fiddler and can sing along with the original cast album.

Author Biography

Barbara Isenberg has been writing about the arts for the Los Angeles Times since 1976, is a former staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal and has also written for Time, Esquire and London’s Sunday Times. Her books include Making It Big: The Diary of a Broadway Musical, State of the Arts: California Artists Talk About Their Work and the Los Angeles Times-bestseller, Conversations with Frank Gehry. She received a Distinguished Artist Award from the Los Angeles Music Center and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute. She lives in Los Angeles.