Fifty-three years after Fiddler on the Roof was first performed on Broadway, a Yiddish version of the much-loved musical is set to hit the stage.
The National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene, in New York, has translated the story of Tevye the milkman and his fellow Jews of the shtetl of Anatevka back into its original language, so to speak - the stories by Sholem Aleichem which the stage production was based on were written in Yiddish.
In a statement, chief executive Christopher Massimine said the production would include a twist - imagining that the Aleichem “was present at the conception of the adaptation of his work for the musical stage.”
Mr Massimine added: “The idea we are putting forth would be an accurate re-creation of how this musical might look in its native Yiddish tongue.”
