Fiddler on the Roof
Book by Joseph Stein
Music by Jerry Bock
Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Director: Artistic Director, Michael Unger
Choreographer: Yehuda Hyman
Music Director: David Bonofiglio
Oct. 3 - 26, 2025
The award-winning classic, Fiddler on the Roof, returns to the Cabot Stage in an unforgettable way. This masterpiece tells the story of Tevye, a humble milkman, and his struggle to maintain his Jewish traditions amidst a changing world.
This important tale is amplified in Skylight’s production through a powerful partnership with Violins of Hope – a collection of stringed instruments that Jewish musicians and others targeted by the Nazis owned and played before and during the Holocaust.
The collection is being presented in Wisconsin by the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra (MYSO). Skylight is honored to have been granted permission to feature two of the instruments from this collection in our production.
We will also partner for the first time with performers and technicians from Marquette University, onstage and backstage.
This production explores the universal themes of cultural identity, tradition, and the cost of societal displacement in a nostalgic and moving look at a world in transition at the dawn of the 20th Century.
Recommended for ages 6 and up.
Learn more about Violins of Hope, their fall residency in Wisconsin, and all the other organizations they'll be partnering with in the link below!
Cast:
Tevye — Andrew Varela*
Golde — Janet Metz*
Tzeitel — Erin Fricker
Hodel — Kynkade McLachlan
Chava — Naomi Kriege
Shprintze — Allyson Lindberg
Bielke — Alice Nguyen
Motel — Grayson Buesing
Perchik — Ben Shields
Fyedka — Michael Mingus
Yente — Sara Stern
Lazar Wolf — Chad Larget
Rabbi — John Schneider
Grandma Tzeitel/ Shaindel — Amanda Satchell
Fruma-Sarah — Jackey Boelkow
Constable/Ensemble — Joseph Green
Avram/Ensemble — Thom Cauley
The Fiddler — Kimberly Hanson
Young Suitor — Rohan Rhys Degala
Young Suitor — Mars Schultz
Ensemble — SaraLynn Evenson
Ensemble — Emmeline Buesing
Ensemble — Audrey Ellis
Ensemble — Mia Mannella
Ensemble — Nate Rodriguez
Ensemble — Kendall Syslack
Ensemble — Joshua Zientara
Creative Team
Director — Michael Unger ***
Choreographer — Yehuda L. Hyman***
Music Director — David Bonofiglio
Scenic Designer — Jonathan Berg-Einhorn
Costume Designer — Michelle Therese Grimm
Lighting Designer — Smooch Medina
Sound Designer — John Tanner
Production Stage Manager — Emily Wright*
Assistant Stage Manager — Malaina Moore
Bottle Dance Consultant — Ali Molaei
Intimacy/Fight Director — Marcee Doherty
*Appearing through an agreement between Skylight Music Theatre and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
*** The Director and Choreographer are members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an independent national labor union.
