SKOKIE, Illinois—When “Fiddler on the Roof” opened on Broadway in 1964, this Golden Age of Broadway musical had a nostalgic appeal, as it looked back to an old-world culture. That made the show charming and engaging. Now, against the backdrop of what is going on in the world, the revival at Music Theater Works in Skokie, Illinois, while still joyous entertainment, has taken on a deeper, more intense, and contemporary significance.
The musical was adapted from Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem’s tales about Jewish life in the Pale of Settlement, more specifically, during the pogroms of Czarist Russia in 1905.
