Production Officials
Director	David Tyldsley
Musical Director	Kenneth Bayliss
Choreographer	Sonia Joy Talbot
Cast
Tevye	Alec Greaves
Golde	Audrey Raistrick
Tzeitel	Edna Unsworth
Hodel	Susan Daley
Chava	Mandy Beddows
Shprintze	Jane Topping, Julie Thornton
Bielke	Celia Harris, Cathryn Unsworth
Yente	Brenda Dixon
Motel	Philip Lloyd
Perchik	Bill White
Lazar Wolf	David Brockbank
Mordcha	Bert Rothwell
Rabbi	Ernest Pollitt
Mendel	Graham Yardley
Avram	Robin Foster
Nachum	David Heaton
Grandma Tzeitel	Millie Hackett
Fruma-Sarah	Dorothy Yardley
Constable	Harry Lee
Fyedka	Graham Edgington
Shandel	Renee Cave
The Fiddler	Glenys Collinson
Chorus
Helen Bennett, Ruth Brockbank, Aileen Bramwell, Claire Clarkson, Jennifer Cave, Thelma Durrans, Sylvia Fishwick, Jean Grimshaw, Barbara Haslam, Heather Kirby, Gillian Kirby, Ann Lloyd, Linda Power, Joyce Rothwell, Rosemary Nightingale, Barbara Tidy, Betty Towler, Janet Towler, Mary Topping, Dorothy Yardley, John Bellis, Nicholas Baird, Garrick Barnett, David Fairclough, Gordon Green, Stephen Greaves, Tom Topping, Michael Topping, Simon Raistrick, Maurice Windsor

Manchester Evening News

Here was a production that captured the warm humanity of this moving musical about a depressed Jewish minority trying to follow its lifestyle in an alien Russia. Symbol of the community’s insecurity is the youth perched on the roof sawing away at a fiddle (in this instance played by a girl, Glenys Collinson). And Walmsley Operatic Society at its Egerton (Bolton) schoolroom theatre had her flitting wraith-like across the stage at several climactic moments of the play. I have not seen this figure used quite so effectively before. Producer David Tyldsley is to be congratulated on this imaginative touch and also on his technical skill in making the most of an inadequate stage. Characters move the furniture off as others insinuate themselves into the open spaces to maintain a non-stop action. Alec Greaves as Tevye, the Bible-quoting milkman, and Audrey Raistrick, as his wife Golde, sang their duets with impressive emotion. The former made the most of the comedy opportunities, but his spouse was not as dominating as the character demands. Philip Lloyd was excellent as the timorous tailor. Choreographer Sonia Joy Talbot made a notable contribution to the general atmosphere with the descriptive dances she devised. Tom Wildern