EditorialBluegrass fiddler Michael Cleveland, who was born blind and mostly deaf, at home in Clarksville, Ind. on Feb. 3, 2023. (Andrew Cenci/The New York Times)
EditorialNavy Seaman Amber Meade, left, and Christine Smith, who arrived on the U.S.S. Bataan for Fleet Week, grab drinks at the Mean Fiddler in Times Square in Manhattan, May 27, 2022. (Gabby Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialZero Mostel in his dressing room at the Winter Garden Theater in New York, where he returned to play Tevye in the revival of "Fiddler on the Roof," on Dec. 28, 1976.
EditorialZero Mostel, right, rehearses “Fiddler on the Roof” with the director Jerome Robbins, at Lyceum Theatre in New York, July 13, 1964. (Sam Falk/The New York Times)
EditorialSteven Skybell takes a bow Sunday night after his last performance as Tevye in the Yiddish-language “Fiddler on the Roof" at Stage 42 in Manhattan, Jan. 5, 2020.