The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in collaboration with Pittsburgh CLO, has announced a starry concert production of Fiddler on the Roof, with Tony Award-winner Shuler Hensley as Tevye.
Andy Einhorn will conduct the PSO in three concerts, February 23-25, 2024, featuring John Williams’ adapted, Oscar Award-winning score to the 1971 film that starred Chaim Topol. Directed and choreographed by Gustavo Zajac, the concerts will also feature Anne L. Nathan as Golde. Nathan was seen on Broadway most recently in the revival of Funny Girl.
Hensley won his Tony as Jud Fry in the 2002 revival of Oklahoma! His other Broadway credits include The Music Man, with Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, and as a replacement Javier in Les Miserables.
Among his screen credits, Hensley has been featured in the TV series The Good Fight and Dexter: New Blood, the movies Van Helsing and The Greatest Showman, and was in the cast of the Pittsburgh-filmed The Bread, My Sweet.
On Broadway, director Zajac was associate choreographer for the Fiddler revival starring Alfred Molina, and worked in the same capacity on the Tony Award-winning revival of Maury Yeston’s Nine, starring Antonio Banderas and Chita Rivera.
The supporting cast for the PSO-PCLO concerts will be comprised of Pittsburgh-based performers, including The Tamburitzans and students from the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, as well as the Hamlisch-Page Student Chorus, under the direction of Christine Hestwood.
Jeremy Black, principal second violin of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, will be the solo violinist for the concerts.
Among the performers with local ties are Stephanie Maloney as Yente, Kristiann Menotiades as Fruma-Sarah, Justin Fortunato as Lazar Wolf, Brady Patsy as Mordcha, Allan Snyder as the Rabbi, Graham Fandrei as Avram and Benjamin Kent Pimental as Nahum. Click here for a full cast list.
Tickets are available at the Heinz Hall Box Office at 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, at pittsburghsymphony.org or by calling 412-492-4900.
“With our long 78-year history of producing Broadway musicals in Pittsburgh and the PSO’s history as a world-class orchestra, this collaboration to present a concert version of Fiddler on the Roof makes perfect sense,” PCLO Executive Producer Mark Fleischer said in a statement. “Having our audiences sitting together in Heinz Hall will build an even closer connection among Pittsburgh arts patrons.”
“I am thrilled to witness artists from each of our companies coming together to create a special performance that focuses equally on the music of this incredible show and the story it tells,” added PSO Vice President of Popular Programming Shelly Fuerte, who is also the executive producer for this concert.
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