'Fiddler on The Roof' Opens This Weekend in Northport

“Fiddler On The Roof” opens this weekend at the Northport-E. Northport Community Theater.

Produced by Bette Silver, the theater’s founder, and under the stage direction of Long Island theater veteran Jim Redding, the show is set to kick off to the holiday season.

Local pediatrician Lawrence Pavlevsky stars as Tevye, the long-suffering patriarch and father of five daughters. This is Pavlevsky’s debut performance with the Northport Community Theater. Yet he is not a newcomer to Tevye’s spirit, having played the role when he was an 18-year old high school student.

Also featured in the cast are Barri Feuer and Kelly Morris in the role of Tevye’s wife Golde. Mia Donneruno and Elizabeth Kiewra share the role of Tzeitel. Gerald Quigley plays the tailor Motel. And Dori-Jo Gutierrez and Cassandra Vitale both return for spotlight performances in the role of Hodel, while Kevin Callaghan plays the rebellious student Perchick.

Avery Infranco and Dylan Perles share the role of Chava who dances her way into the heart of Fyedka as performed by long-time theater performer James Reiss. Dylan – who performed in the original Community Theater cast as one of the younger sisters and also on stage in the Engeman Theater production – is joined by her own younger sisters Zoe and Kyra as the youngest of Tevye’s daughters in roles they share with Sophia Longobardi and M​akayla Connolly. The part of village busybody Yent​e is played by Diane Gutierrez and Suzie Lustig.

Also gracing the stage are numerous theater regulars including Barbara Schulman and Judy Avena in the role of Grandma Tzeitel, Don Woods and Rich Lau as The Butcher Lazar Wolf, and a not-to-be-missed performance by Stephanie Sultana as Fruma-Sarah. Local High School student Amy Courter as a violin player as The Fiddler. These actors are joined by many additional regulars with the Community Theater including Joel Ackerman​, Phil Deitz, Justin Murphy, Doug Carney, Bill Poulos, and Eric Young as well as a large number of newcomers to the Theater family. The cast ranges in age from ​4 to ​80-plus.

This year marks the ​50th anniversary of the Broadway production of 1964.

Show Schedule:

Fridays/Saturdays Nov. 14, 15, 21, 22, Curtain at 8 p.m.

Sunday Matinees November 16, 23, Curtain at 2 pm

Brosnan Center Auditorium (School District Admin Building), 158 Laurel Ave.

NorthportTickets available at the theater any night during rehearsal or via Paypal on the Theater website www.northportcommunitytheater.org or contacct Bette Silver at 631-896-5970 or at bdsilver@optonline.net