Fiddler on the Roof [Original Broadway Cast] [2003 Bonus Tracks]

1	Prologue - Tradition / Original Broadway Cast 6:54
2	Matchmaker / Original Broadway Cast 3:42
3	If I Were a Rich Man / Original Broadway Cast 4:54
4	Sabbath Prayer / Original Broadway Cast 2:26
5	To Life / Original Broadway Cast 4:10
6	Miracle of Miracles / Original Broadway Cast 2:01
7	The Dream / Original Broadway Cast 6:07
8	Sunrise, Sunset / Original Broadway Cast 3:32
9	Wedding Dance / Original Broadway Cast 2:12
10	Now I Have Everything / Original Broadway Cast 2:03
11	Do You Love Me? / Original Broadway Cast 3:07
12	The Rumor / Original Broadway Cast 1:51
13	Far from the Home I Love / Original Broadway Cast 3:29
14	Anatevka / Original Broadway Cast 3:13
15	"Along the Way We Dropped a Number of Songs..." / Sheldon Harnick Bonus Track 0:48
16	When Messiah Comes / Sheldon Harnick Bonus Track 2:57
17	"Here's a Song That Was to Have Been in Fiddler..." / Sheldon Harnick Bonus Track 0:17
18	How Much Richer Could One Man Be? / Sheldon Harnick Bonus Track 1:15
19	"It's Very Seldom That Jerry Bock and I Have Written for Stars..." / Sheldon Harnick Bonus Track 1:07
20	If I Were a Rich Man / Richard Leonard Bonus Track 3:52
21	If I Were a Rich Man / Sheldon Harnick Bonus Track 3:06
22	The Recording Session / Sheldon Harnick Bonus Track 0:57
23	Zero / Sheldon Harnick Bonus Track 1:31
24	Where the Dancing Girls Went / Sheldon Harnick Bonus Track 1:27
25	A Musical With a Sad Ending / Sheldon Harnick Bonus Track 1:51
26	The Appeal of the Show / Sheldon Harnick Bonus Track 1:04
27	"Do You Love Me?" / Sheldon Harnick Bonus Track 3:21
28	Sunrise, Sunset / Sheldon Harnick Bonus Track 1:57

All Music Guide

Few (if any) Broadway performances have garnered the plaudits bestowed upon Fiddler on the Roof (1964), which opened on the Great White Way September 22, 1964 at the Imperial Theater. It likewise broke Hello, Dolly!'s (1964) achievement for longest-running consecutive performances. The immortal Zero Mostel (Tevye) heads up a luminous ensemble, rounded out by Bea Arthur (Yente) and Bert Convy (Perchik), among other notables. The plot pivots on Tevye, a Jewish milkman, his three daughters: Hodel, Chava and Tzeitel, and faithful wife Golde. While the characters survival in turn-of-the-century Russia remains both heart-warming and undeniably tragic, it is the score of Jerry Bock (music) and Sheldon Harnick (lyrics) that is at the center . The unforgettable Original Broadway Cast Recording has been updated on this Broadway Deluxe Collector's Edition from RCA Victor. Thanks to a thorough digital remastering, the music has never sounded better. Classics such as "Tradition," "If I Were a Rich Man," "To Life," "Miracle of Miracles," "Sunrise, Sunset" and "Do You Love Me?" are but a few of the numbers that live beyond the context of the stage. The 'bonus tracks' are two additional readings of "If I Were a Rich Man" from renown pianist/arranger Richard Leonard and the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra. Other supplementary materials include spoken segments with lyricist Harnick from An Evening With ... (1971) , as well as a February 2003 interview. His illuminations provide insight to songs written then subsequently removed from the finished product and the logistics of documenting the Broadway cast. The packaging boasts a 15-page booklet replete with rare photos, condensed plot summaries and respectively historical essays. Without hesitation, the Fiddler on the Roof [Deluxe Collectors Edition] (2003) is recommended as the most comprehensive assessment of such a time-honored title. Lindsay Planer