A Fiddler On The Roof At Sheffield Theatre

The second season under Artistic Director Samuel West continues with this year’s Christmas production, the classic musical Fiddler On The Roof. The production sees both Henry Goodman (Tevye) and director Lindsay Posner make their Sheffield Theatres debuts.

Tevye the dairyman is an old-fashioned father who wants to see his daughters married in the traditional Jewish way. But revolution is in the air and the young are guided by their hearts, not their elders.

Set in Tsarist Russia in 1905, this tale of the emotional turmoil of a family facing upheaval in their lives and world around them is a powerful and uplifting experience.

Lindsay Posner’s recent theatre work includes Fool For Love (Apollo Theatre); and Tom and Viv, The Hypochondriac and Romance (all Almeida Theatre).

For opera, his credits include Love Counts (Almeida) and Guilio Cesaré (Royal Opera House at the Barbican). Posner is joined by choreographer Kate Flatt whose body of work includes the creation of the movement and musical staging for Les Miserables (worldwide), as well as creating dance sequences for film, including The Avengers, Restoration and Chaplin.

Designs are by Peter McKintosh whose current work includes Summer and Smoke, The Cryptogram, Donkey’s Years (all West End) and recently AIN’T MISBEHAVIN (Sheffield Theatres); with lighting design by Peter Mumford who returns to Sheffield after his work on The Romans in Britain. Mumford’s other recent work includes A Voyage Round My Father (Donmar) and Summer and Smoke and Waiting for Godot (both West End).

The Musical Director is Dane Preece, whose recent work includes PROMISES, PROMISES (Sheffield Theatres) and Sex Chips and Rock & Roll (Manchester Royal Exchange).

The cast includes Henry Goodman, Beverley Klein, Julie Legrand and Vincent McGuire.

Multi-award winning actor Henry Goodman continues his association with Lindsay Posner who has directed him recently in The Birthday Party (Birmingham Rep) and The Hypochondriac (Almeida).

His other theatre work includes The Producers (NY), The Merchant of Venice, Guys & Dolls and After the Fall (all National Theatre). Television work includes Trust, The Mayor of Casterbridge and Cold Lazarus; and for film, Churchill, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers and Notting Hill. Beverley Klein’s stage work includes Camille (Lyric Hammersmith) and Jerry Springer The Opera (West End); and for television, Gimme Gimme Gimme and The Hello Girls.

Julie Legrand has recently completed a West End run of SEE HOW THEY RUN at the Duchess Theatre. A familiar face on television, she is perhaps best known as Nurse Dunkley in Footballer’s Wives. Her other television credits include Fields of Gold and North Square.

One of our best loved television actors, Victor McGuire has starred in some of the most enduring comedy series, including Being April, Goodnight Sweetheart and Bread. His film credits include The Black Dahlia, Suzie Gold and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

For tickets call 0114 249 6000.

Please note there is no performance on Monday 26 December 2006 or Monday 1 January 2007.

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