Macys Parade Fidder On The Roof

Behold the 1987 parade featuring a performance by broadway legend and fiddler on the roof in yiddish director joel grey reprising the role that won him a tony and oscar and not an emmy as. Cast members from broadway s fiddler on the roof finding neverland the king and i on your feet something rotten and school of rock will all take part in the 89th annual macy s thanksgiving. Fiddler on the roof is based on tevye or tevye the dairyman and his daughters a series of stories by sholem aleichem that he wrote in yiddish between 1894 and 1914 about jewish life in a village in the pale of settlement of imperial russia at the turn of the 20th century.