A year six leavers’ play reaped standing ovations from a sold out crowd last week, as they performed Fiddle on the Roof in Richmond last week.
Girls from The Old Vicarage School, Richmond, ended the term with two star-studded performance of Broadway’s longest running musical and a 1971 Oscar-winning film at the Queen Charlotte Hall Theatre, Richmond Adult Community College on June 22 and 23.
Ali Fryer-Bovill, play director, said: “Fiddler has been a fantastic production to direct.
"To watch this group of young girls - whom I have seen grow up at The Old Vicarage - embrace the story and portray it with such passion, has been a truly amazing experience."
The leavers play included iconic songs such as the rousing ‘Tradition’, ‘Matchmaker’ and ‘If I Were A Rich Man’ – all giving off strong messages about female freedom of thought.
The production has been an ambitious mission, with only six weeks to learn a lengthy script and a score of 18 musical numbers.
Headmistress Gillian Linthwaite said, “The girls have embraced what is essentially powerful material and turned it into a celebration of life and its challenges.
"The central themes of family and love come across with passion in Fiddler’s wonderful score.
"I don’t expect many parents will leave with a dry eye after they’ve heard their daughters’ renditions of Sunrise, Sunset and Do You Love Me?
"Not many of the cast knew the story a few months ago, and now every one of them is living and breathing the story of Tevye, who trys to balance life - like a fiddler on a roof – and hold onto his traditions amid sweeping social change."
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