Celebrated Israeli actor come director Yehezkel Lazarov will lead the cast as patriarch Tevye in the national tour of Fiddler on the Roof. The hit Broadway production will kick off in Philadelphia October 23.

Lazarov will be joined by Maite Uzal as Golde, Jonathan Von Mering as Lazar Wolfe, Carol Beaugard as Yente, Mel Weyn as Tzeitel, Ruthy Froch as Hodel and Natalie Powers as Chava.

What is Fiddler on the Roof about?

At the turn of the 20th Century, Russia is a country on the brink of revolution. Although the chaos seems to seldom touch the isolated family of Tevye the Milkman, he sees the effect on his three elder daughters and the lives that they choose the lead.

Tzeitel, the oldest has little prospects for a poor woman, when the widowed and ancient butcher Lazar Wolf shows interest in her whilst she pines for the poor tailor Motel, it begins a story of rebellion, violence, love and acceptance that finds Tevye and the family learning to leave behind their old lives and start a new one full of hope and laughter!