Morristown High School Theatre’s Tradition of Excellence Continues This Spring with Fiddler on the Roof

Morristown, NJ—The award-winning Morristown High School Theatre Department has announced its spring musical production of Fiddler on the Roof, with four performances from March 12 to 15. Tickets are now on sale at MHSTIX.com.

MHS Theatre has chosen another all-time great musical to follow up last year’s smash-hit production of Les Misérables (winner of the 2025 BergenPAC High School Musical award for Outstanding Overall Musical). Once the longest-running musical in Broadway history, Fiddler on the Roof is a beloved classic packed with comedy, pathos, great characters, and classic songs, including “Tradition,” “Matchmaker, Matchmaker,” “If I Were a Rich Man,” “To Life,” “Miracle of Miracles,” “Sunrise, Sunset,” and many more.

Based on Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye stories, Fiddler on the Roof tells the story of a Jewish family in the Pale of Settlement in Western Russia around the turn of the twentieth century, but its themes are universal and somehow seem to become more relevant with each passing year. The show is about the tensions between tradition and progress, isolation and assimilation, acceptance and persecution, and, most overtly, between parents’ love for their children and their need to let them go, to allow them to grow up and live their own lives and make their own decisions.

As faculty director Stephanie Rubin says, “At its core, Fiddler showcases the delicate balance between the stability of tradition and inevitable change that comes as time passes, offering a deeply human look at how we hold onto our identity in a shifting world.”

Even if you’ve seen Fiddler on the Roof before, it will be worth checking out Morristown High School’s production. In addition to the BergenPAC award for Outstanding Overall Musical, last year’s production of Les Mis netted awards for MHS’s pit orchestra (the Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Award for Outstanding Orchestra), faculty music director David Gallagher (the BergenPAC High School Musical award for Best Musical Direction), and the student cast as a whole (BergenPAC’s Best Ensemble award). Leading this year’s Fiddler cast as Tevye, in his final MHS production, is senior Jackson Miller, who won BergenPAC’s award for Best Actor in a Male-Identified Supporting Role for playing Javert in Les Mis last year.

As Rubin points out, MHS’s production of Fiddler on the Roof, “is rooted in a profound shared history with the show, from my own family heritage and history, to our team's collective years of professional and personal ties to the story. We aren’t merely staging a classic; we are presenting a sincere tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that makes the village of Anatevka feel like home for us all.”

MHS Theatre will present four live performances of Fiddler on the Roof on the Morristown High School stage, including three evening shows and one matinee:

• Thursday, March 12 at 7:00 pm
• Friday, March 13 at 7:00 pm
• Saturday, March 14 at 7:00 pm
• Sunday, March 15 at 2:00 pm

Tickets can be purchased at https://mhs.booktix.com.