I will be playing the part of Mendel, the Rabbi’s son in Fiddler on the Roof. It’s a non-principal, but important role from what little I’ve read.

Hey at least my character has a name–and a few speaking parts!

A few lines from WikiQuote:

Tevye: As the good book says, when a poor man eats a chicken, one of them is sick.

Mendel: Where does the book say that?

Tevye: Well, it doesn’t say that exactly, but somewhere there is something about a chicken. Good Sabbath!

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Tevye: As Abraham said, “I am a stranger in a strange land…”

Mendel: Moses said that.

Tevye: Ah. Well, as King David said, “I am slow of speech, and slow of tongue.”

Mendel: That was also Moses.

Tevye: For a man who was slow of tongue, he talked a lot.

Well, tonight almost the whole family (myself, my wife, my step daughter, my father and my mother) went and auditioned for parts for at the Wichita Theatre, a local community theater’s, production of Fiddler on the Roof.

I know I had my mistakes during the audition, but I had fairly high praises from everyone…got a pretty good thumbs up from one of the deciding factors of casting too.

I’m actually fairly anxious as this will be my first solo singing/speaking role in over 15 years.