Photo Coverage: Inside Opening Night of Barrington Stage's FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

Barrington Stage Company features Tony nominee Brad Oscar in the role of the beloved dairyman Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, running through July 14, kicking off the theater's 18th season in the Berkshires. Joanna Glushak (Sweet Smell of Success) plays Golde. The production is directed and choreographed by Gary John LaRosa, with music direction by Darren R. Cohen.

BroadwayWorld brings you photos from opening night below!

Brad Oscar was last seen on Broadway as Uncle Fester in "The Addams Family." He received a 2001 Tony nomination as Franz Liebkind in The Producers and later went on to play the role of Max Bialystock over 1400 times on Broadway, on tour, in Las Vegas and in London's West End. Other Broadway credits: Spamalot, Jekyll & Hyde, Aspects of Love. National Tour: Young Frankenstein and Jekyll &Hyde. Off-Broadway: Forbidden Broadway, The Body Beautiful, Encores! Bells Are Ringing and Do Re Mi, directed and performed in Broadway by the Year 1931 and 1968 at Town Hall. Regional: Barnum (Asolo Rep/Maltz Jupiter-Carbonell Award, Best Actor in a Musical), The Mystery of Irma Vep, Cabaret, and Damn Yankees (Arena Stage), The First Wives Club (Old Globe), Moonlight and Magnolias (Cape Playhouse), Annie (TOTS, Atlanta). Film: Ghost Town and The Producers. TV: SMASH and The Good Wife, and three Law & Orders.

A timeless classic, Fiddler on the Roof features a score by Jerry Bock (music) and Sheldon Harnick (lyrics), with a book by Joseph Stein, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. One of the great musical scores in the history of the American theatre features "Tradition," "Matchmaker, Matchmaker," "If I Were a Rich Man," and "Sunrise, Sunset."

Tickets on sale ($15-$62) by calling 413-236-8888 or visiting www.barringtonstageco.org.

Photo Credit: Stephen Sorokoff

William Finn & Sheldon Harnick

Artistic Director Julianne Boyd & Sheldon Harnick

William Finn & Sheldon Harnick

Barrington Stage Co.

William Finn & Sheldon Harnick

Andrew Mayer (Fiddler) & Brad Oscar

Rebecca Kuznick & Colin Israel

Brad Oscar

"To Life"

Dawn Rother, Rebecca Kuznick, Stephanie Lynn Mason

Brad Oscar, Jesse Coleman, Matthew Rickard,Danny Harris Kornfeld, Ben Holtzman, Jason Simon

Joanna Glushak & Brad Oscar

The Cast

Sheldon Harnick & Cast Backstage

Sheldon Harnick & Joanna Glushak

Backstage

Sheldon Harnick & Cast

Sheldon Harnick & Artistic Director Julianne Boyd & Sheldon Harnick

Director Gary John La Rosa & Sheldon Harnick

Sheldon Harnick & Julianne Boyd

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Stephen's life seems to have always revolved around a camera and a piano. He studied at Manhattan School of Music and performed in the "Borsht Belt" during college vacations, where in the true DIRTY DANCING tradition he met his wife Eda. Stephen was a Board Member of the First All Children's Theater and his wife, a classical pianist, is a Board Member of Barrington Stage Co. In between he made time to be CEO of a multi national machinery company and President of a domestic Textile Mfg. Co. In retirement, he now takes pictures of his 5 grandchildren and various other performers.

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