Click here to subscribe today or Login.
Bill Lipski as Tevye and Cierra Cellerari as one of his daughters sing their way through the beloved musical ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ at the Music Box Playhouse in Swoyersville.
One of the high points of “Fiddler on the Roof,” director Debbie Zehner said, is the “Do You Love Me” song that Tevye the dairyman and his wife, Golde, sing to each other.
“They’ve been married 25 years, and they never said they loved each other,” Zehner pointed out.
Chalk that up to an arranged marriage, followed by a life of hard work and devotion to duty. But, after living together for a quarter century, husband and wife finally admit their feelings and harmonize that “it’s nice to know.”
Audiences will no doubt smile at that, Zehner said, if they attend Music Box Playhouse’s opening performances next weekend in Swoyersville.
The show boasts many other depictions of love, in all its humor and glory and pain. Some is romantic love, as Tevye’s daughters, one by one, pair off with men their father never foresaw as sons-in-law.
Some is parent-child love, strained especially thin when the third daughter marries outside the faith and her father temporarily disowns her.
“Tevye denies his daughter and says she’s dead to him,” Zehner said.
“The fact that he (later) forgives his daughter for marrying a Russian shows that, in the long run, everybody still cares about each other.”
A more risque theatrical romp can be found in Clarks Summit, as The Corner Bistro Dinner Theatre presents “Sex Please, We’re Sixty.”
“It’s about a bed-and-breakfast run by a widow, Mrs. Stancliff, and it seems like her bed-and-breakfast attracts single, older women,” director Rob Misko said.
While an old-school gentleman named Henry comes to woo Mrs. Stancliff, and have tea with her, a more roguish fellow, who lives next door and fancies himself a stud, “keeps hitting on all the women.”
Henry, being a retired scientist, has created a pill to raise the libido of older women and – wouldn’t you know? – somehow those pills get mixed up and the men take them instead, with somewhat unexpected results.
“It’s suggestive,” Misko said. “There’s a lot of running in and out of bedrooms.”
The show begins tonight and continues through Feb. 21 with performances at 6:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays.
For reservations, call 282-7499.