Artistic Features Of The Musical "Fiddler On The Roof"

For the musical "Fiddler on the Roof",it was by Jerry Polk,Sheldon Harnick and director and choreographer Jerome Robbins.In the 1960 s,a Broadway musical premiered at the Imperial Theatre in New York in 1964 and won several Tony Awards,and has been running for a long time.It was a "new" musical that dealt with socio-political issues with religious implications,and its unique genre became one of the most mature works of its time.The author incorporated a lot of Eastern European Jewish expression in the music,dance and drama,making the show always exotic and adding diversity to the musical theater world.The work reflects the diversity of the Jewish people.The production reflects the story of a Jewish family forced to make changes to their Jewish heritage in the face of political oppression and the rules of life,but with a renewed sense of hope and spirituality based on their deeply held religious beliefs.This is one of the few successful musicals in the history of the American musical theater that features a story of Jewish life with socio-political "sensitivities" on the Broadway stage.Fiddler on the Roof emerged as the pinnacle of the narrative melodrama era.The old-school American traditional storyline musical shifted to the direction of a thought-provoking conceptual musical that resonated.This groundbreaking work in the history of musical theater is a major upgrade and innovation in terms of artistic content,conceptual thought,and its unique commercial development.The narrative thread of "adhering to tradition" and "breaking tradition" conveys the theme of "spiritual power supported by faith" throughout the play,highlighting the work's unique The thesis is divided into three chapters.The thesis is divided into three chapters: an overview of "Fiddler on the Roof," an analysis of the dramatic structure and characters,and an analysis of the characteristics of the music.The first chapter is divided into three sections to introduce the life and creation of Sheldon Harnick,Jerry Bock and Jerome Robbins,the historical origin of Fiddler on the Roof and the background of the play's era.And the last two chapters are the main angles of the research and analysis of this paper,by interpreting and analyzing the four aspects of the play "House" : the dramatic roles,music and dance.The second chapter is an analysis of the dramatic structure and characters in the play,with the main and secondary lines intertwined as the dramatic structure,allowing the narrative threads to proceed smoothly under the close connection,while the character and dramatic actions of the eight main characters in the play are analyzed to more powerfully excavate the thematic ideas of the work.The third chapter is an analysis of the leading motive,the main singing,the expression of dance to explore the unique artistic charm of this work.The author hopes that the interpretation of "Fiddler on the Roof" to argue the combination of narrative and lyrical features in it,and at the same time can provide effective reference experience for the subjects chosen in the creation of musicals in China.