“A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn't easy. You may ask 'Why do we stay up there if it's so dangerous?' Well, we stay because Anatevka is our home. And how do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in (one) word: …” ASSISTANCE
For providing appropriate set pieces, props, and lights, we appreciate the loans from Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, Antique Mall Ohio River and Stephen Donnelly.
For opening their costume-room doors to us time and again, we appreciate Pam Gregg and Cathy Hiedzik of Performing Arts Camp (PAC) in Sewickley. We are grateful to Jessica Kavanagh and Seneca Valley High School for guidance and access to their cupboards and closets! Thank you to Elaine Evans at Central Catholic for providing vital prayer shawls, and Spotlight Costumes for your timely personal delivery! Thanks also to the parents who provided necessary clothing and accessories to outfit our poor peasants and Russians in Anatevka.
We praise the consistent helping hands of Susan Cable, Stephanie Menzock, and Dolores Mahoney for bringing the look of the show to life in the costume room. We couldn’t have refined and completed the style of our production without the sewing expertise of Dolores Mahoney, Missy Sanfilippo, and 5th grader Amelia Balet. We are indebted to you for your time and talent.
We are deeply grateful for the creative eye and attention to detail of our headshot photographer Karina Eremina of Joy of the Moment Photography for shooting the kids for our lobby wall. What fun everyone had letting their personalities show! We appreciate the efforts of Kristin Brown and Susan Cable for creating the lobby display.
We are so grateful to Rebecca Armutat and Brendan Schneider for offering to create and print our wonderful Playbill.
A big high five to Herbert Niebel, Martha Bell, and the many students who ably assisted in building and painting the set, Ben Spicer for his help with all-things-audio, and Joe Borzaccheillo and Randy Lennon for helping with our conductor monitors!
Kudos to the students in Ms. Mason’s senior school art class who created our marketing design, and Brittnea Turner and Kaitlin Busch for their marketing expertise!
In order to help the students understand both the Jewish and the Ukrainian contexts for the show, we are indebted to guest speakers and advisors Nataliya Di Domenico, Jill Pollon, and Jessica Hecht. As well as our resident baker, Jon Riddle, for supplying us with fresh challah every night!
Thanks to the many parents who didn’t let our kids go hungry on long rehearsal days. We are so grateful to Bonita and Don Melonio, Hazel Bigdeli, Mona Bhatia, Kristin Brown, Susan Cable, Bushra Haq, Sharon Hrabovsky, Tharshini Joseph, Glenis Levine, Dolores Mahoney, Stephanie Miner, Missy Sanfilippo, Becca Schneider, and Tracey Vogel.
For their continued support with costumes we thank Millers Dry Cleaning.
For their understanding, flexibility, and support we thank Kolia O’Connor, Dr. Lau, and the entire Sewickely Academy Faculty and Staff.
Finally, for being willing and excited to step into a new volunteer role at Sewickley Academy, serving the Theater Department as Production Coordinator on this and subsequent shows, we say a sheynem dank to Susan Cable.
