Tradition!: The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World's Most Beloved Musical

Written by Barbara Isenberg

Narrated by Adam Grupper

Since it first opened on Broadway in September, 1964, Fiddler on the Roof has constantly been onstage somewhere, including five Broadway revivals, four productions on London's West End and thousands of schools, army bases and countries from Argentina to Japan. Barbara Isenberg interviewed the men and women behind the original production, the film and significant revivals-- Harold Prince, Sheldon Harnick, Joseph Stein, Austin Pendleton, Joanna Merlin, Norman Jewison, Topol, Harvey Fierstein and more-- to produce a lively, popular chronicle of the making of Fiddler. Published in celebration of Fiddler's 50th anniversary, Tradition! is the book for everyone who loves Fiddler and can sing along with the original cast album.

• Language: English
• Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works
• Release date: Mar 15, 2016
• ISBN: 9781682660249

Barbara Isenberg

Barbara Isenberg, author of Tradition!, is an award winning journalist who has been writing and lecturing about theater for over three decades. She is the author of Making It Big: The Diary of a Broadway Musical, State of the Arts: California Artists Talk About Their Work and Conversations with Frank Gehry. Her work has appeared in the LA Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time, Esquire, The Huffington Post, and London's Sunday Times. She lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews for Tradition!

[drronmccoy · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Excellent and detailed storytelling about the birth and life of one of the worlds greatest musicals and dramas. You can also learn a lot about the craft of music theatre by listening to this. Very well read, lots of fantastic stories and incredibly well researched. Thoroughly recommended.

[Andrew Farnsworth · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Both a great making of, both the musical and the film, book.

The narrator is superb his Impressions of Topol and Harvey Fierstein are spot on.

[Paul Hortobagyi · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It gave 100 times more perspective and appreciation to the play and movie that I have seen at least a dozen times. WONDERFUL!