Fiddler on the Roof

Staff

... Conductor	Milton Greene
... Producer	George R. Marek
... Recording Engineer	Ernie Oelrich

Cast

... Tevye, the Dairyman	Zero Mostel
... Golde, his wife	Maria Karnilova
... Tzeitel	Joanna Merlin
... Hodel	Julia Migenes
... Chava	Tanya Everett
... Shprintze	Marilyn Rogers
... Bielke	Linda Ross
... Yente, the Matchmaker	Beatrice Arthur
... Motel, the Tailor	Austin Pendelton
... Perchik, the Student	Bert Convy
... Lazar Wolf, the Butcher	Michael Granger
... Mordcha, the Innkeeper	Zvee Scooler
... Rabbi	Gluck Sandor
... Mendel, his Son	Leonard Frey
... Avram, the Bookseller	Paul Lipson
... Nachum, the Beggar	Maurice Edwards
... Grandma Tzeitel	Sue Babel
... Fruma-Sarah	Carol Sawyer
... Constable	Joseph Sullivan (ii)
... Fyedka	Joe Ponazecki
... Shandel, Motel's mother	Helen Verbit
... The Fiddler	Gino Conforti
... Shloime, the Bagel Man	John C. Attle
... Yitzuk, the Streetsweeper	Sammy Bayes
... Chaim, the Fishmonger	Lorenzo Bianco
... Duvidel, the Seltzer Man	Duane Bodin
... Surcha	Sarah Felcher
... Label, the Woodsman	Tony Gardell
... Hershel, the Potseller	Louis Genevrino
... Yankel, the Grocer	Ross Gifford
... Schmeril, the Baker	Dan Jasin
... Fredel	Sandra Kazan
... Yakov, the Knifeseller	Thom Koutsoukos
... Berille	Sharon Lerit
... Mirala	Sylvia Mann
... Sima	Peff Modelski
... Rivka	Irene Paris
... Moishe, the Cobbler	Charles Rule
... Anya	Roberta Senn
... Yussel, the Hatmaker	Mitch Thomas
... Vladimir	Tom Abbott
... Sasha	Robert Berdeen
... Ilyitch	Robert Currie
... The Russian	Ross Gifford (Not credited with this role in playbills for the production.)

Tracks

The song list for this recording is taken from the CD issue. Later CD editions added two tracks — "Wedding Dance" and "The Rumor" — that were recorded at the 1964 sessions but were issued until the second CD issue of this recording. "Wedding Dance" is the music known in the show as the "Bottle Dance." (The number known in the show as "Wedding Dance" is different.) "The Rumor" was listed as "I Just Heard" in the playbill for the original production and all subsequent Broadway productions until the 2004 revival, in which the song was cut and replaced with a new song titled "Topsy-Turvy." ("Topsy-Turvy" was also used in the 2015 Broadway revival.)

The song listed on CD issues as "The Dream" was listed as "Tevye's Dream (The Tailor Motel Kamzoil)" on earlier issues, including the original LP issue. In the production's playbill, it was listed as "The Tailor, Motel Kamzoil."

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The most recent CD issue of this recording (the "Deluxe Edition") adds a number of bonus tracks. Six tracks are taken from Sheldon Harnick's 1971 talk at the 92nd Street (available complete on DRG). On these tracks, Harnick discusses and performs two cut songs — "When Messiah Comes" and "How Much Richer Could One Man Be?" (aka "The Richest Man in Town") — and also discusses the creation of "If I Were a Rich Man," which he also performs.

Another track is the violinist Vladimir Spivakov's recording of "If I Were a Rich Man," accompanied by the Moscow Virtuosi.

Finally, there are seven tracks of Harnick discussing the show. The last two tracks listed below are not Harnick singing the songs listed, but rather discussing the creation of those songs.