Costume Designs for Broadway’s “Fiddler on the Roof”
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Featured here are costume sketches by Patricia Zipprodt for "Fiddler on The Roof."
Doug Reside of the Library of the Performing Arts describes the story behind costume designer Patricia Zipprodt’s original costumes for Broadway’s “Fiddler on the Roof.” This original sketch is now a part of NYPL’s Polonsky Exhibition.
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Costume Designs for Broadway’s “Fiddler on the Roof”
Episode 2 | 59sVideo has Closed Captions
Doug Reside of the Library of the Performing Arts describes the story behind costume designer Patricia Zipprodt’s original costumes for Broadway’s “Fiddler on the Roof.” This original sketch is now a part of NYPL’s Polonsky Exhibition.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipDoug: These are the original costume designs of Tevye and his daughters for the Broadway production of "Fiddler on the Roof."
Costume designer Patricia Zipprodt recalled that Broadway director and producer Harold Prince originally thought that her costume designs were too drab for the kind of work that he was doing.
Patricia Zipprodt tried to make them, in some ways, as realistic as possible.
She actually recalls going to a lot of Orthodox homes as she was doing the research and attending Sabbath services where she would observe what people were wearing and tried to base the costumes on that.
Zipprodt's costumes for a poor, segregated Russian Jewish community in "Fiddler on the Roof" managed to capture both the joy of weddings and births and the tragedy of experiencing these happy occasions in an oppressive, anti-Semitic culture.
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