Knox High School Drama Department to Present Fiddler on the Roof

The Knox High School Drama Department will present Fiddler on the Roof on Friday and Saturday at 7:00 p.m. and Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. in the High School Auditorium.

“Fiddler is an older show and it is set in 1905 in Russia in a little village of Anatevka,” said Director Terrill Hahn of the musical. “It’s got some great classic songs in it like ‘Matchmaker’, ‘If I Were a Rich Man’, ‘Tradition’, and ‘Sunrise, Sunset’. All of those songs I’m sure people are familiar with.”

Miss Hahn says this play has been a challenge for the actors and everyone involved.

“It’s different from anything we’ve done in quite a long time. I would say it is somewhere along the lines of The Sound of Music that we did several years ago. It’s a really good show. It’s been a nice acting challenge and singing challenge for the students. Alison Martinkus, who has been choreographing for us for a few years now, she came back in and did choreography for us.”

“I don’t do this alone,” she continued. “Chris Pickell is our Choir Director and she does the music and Char Geisler plays the keyboard and the two of them do so much more than that. They work on costumes and they work on some of the choreography with the kids. They’re there every night too and they have put a lot of time into it.”

Tickets to Fiddler on the Roof will be available at the door for $6.00.

Cast List

Tevye……………………………………………Aaron Shackelford
Golde……………………………………………..LaTausha Cotner
Tzeitel………………………………………………….Kara Aaron
Hodel………………………………………………….Abby Marsh
Chava…………………………………………….Brittany Shannon
Yente………………………………………………….Haley White
Shprintze……………………………………………Rebecca Crisan
Bielke………………………………………………….Leilani Diaz
Motel……………………………………………………Tyler Feece
Perchik……………………………………………….Drew Shearin
Fyedka……………………………………………Nathan Upchurch
Lazar Wolf……………………………………………Josh Fletcher
Mordcha………………………………………………..Matt Neuer
Rabbi…………………………………………………..Kyle Cooke
Mendel ……………………….…………………….Brenden Owens
Avram………………………………………………Jacob Kietzman
Constable………………………………………..…Adam Jaworski
Fruma Sarah…………………………………………Taylor Quella
Grandma Tzeitel……………………………………Mandy Frazier
Fiddler………………………………………………Taylor Kemble
Shaindel……………………………………………Marissa Adcock
Sasha………………………….…………………….Dakota Salyers
Yussell……………………………………………….Michael Poetz
Nachum…………………………………………….Chris Weliczko
1st Woman……………………………………….Haley Windbigler
Russian……………………………………………Elliot Coad
2nd Woman…………………………………………..Brittany Rowe
Villagers……………………….……Abby Frazier, Darian Ritchie,
Sumer Thompson, Marissa Hill, Cheyenne Barnett, Hannah Janson, Morgan Page, Nicole Knutel, Samantha Piper, Hannah Folkers.