The closing production of the 70th season was a revival of the classic Tony Award winning musical “Fiddler on the Roof.” The corporate sponsor for “Fiddler” was Hardee’s Enterprises. “Fiddler” had first been performed in the 1977-1978 season. This show was an audience favorite. Newcomers to the stage were Carol Plotkin as Yente and Gail Gummerman as the fiddler. Gail was a third generation performer for Players. Players audiences knew her father, Curt, who had performed in both productions of “The Music Man,” her Grandfather Bernie who had printed the Players programs for many years, and her Grandmother, Hilda, the first person selected as a Governor Emerta to Players’ Board of Governors, was considered the First Lady of Players.
