Tradition! ─ The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World's Most Beloved Musical

Since it first opened on Broadway in September, 1964, Fiddler on the Roofhas constantly been onstage somewhere, including four Broadway revivals, four productions on London's West End and thousands of schools, army bases and countries from Argentina to Japan. Barbara Isenberg interviewed the men and women behind the original production, the film and significant revivals-- Harold Prince, Sheldon Harnick, Joseph Stein, Austin Pendleton, Joanna Merlin, Norman Jewison, Topol, Harvey Fierstein and more-- to produce a lively,?popular chronicle of the making of?Fiddler. Published?in celebration of Fiddler's?50th anniversary, Tradition!?is the book?for?everyone who loves?Fiddler?and?can sing?along with the original?cast album.

BARBARA ISENBERG, author of Tradition!, is an award winning journalist who has been writing and lecturing about theater for over three decades. She is the author ofMaking It Big: The Diary of a Broadway Musical, State of the Arts: California Artists Talk About Their Work andConversations with Frank Gehry. Her work has appeared in the LA Times, theWall Street Journal, Time, Esquire, The Huffington Post, and London's Sunday Times. She lives in Los Angeles.