Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match. Find me a find. Catch me a catch.

Unfortunately, Pamela Chabora isn’t really a matchmaker, she is just playing one on stage.

“I think Yenta is the old tradition,” Chabora says of her role in the touring production of the Tony-award winning musical Fiddler on the Roof, which is coming to the Halifax Metro Centre on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.

“She thinks in terms of black and white with tunnel vision with a very strong rigidity.”

For those who are unfamiliar, Fiddler on the Roof is set in the Jewish village, or shetl, of Anatevka, Russia in 1905.

While surrounding Russia rested on the cusp of revolution, the inhabitants of Anatevka fought to maintain their traditions.

Marriage was the most essential tradition of all.

Enter Yenta.

“She gets fulfillment from being the matchmaker and knowing she still has value in the community,” Chabora explains.

“It helps her find her place.”

On one hand, Yenta’s beliefs from the old country often push her further away from the very people she believes she is helping.

On the other, her routinely stubborn disposition to an archaic point of view naturally lends itself to casting Yenta in a humorous light.

It’s a fact not lost on Chabora.

“I’m working earnestly and sometimes, the core comedy of “the clown”, comes from the tunnel vision that they have,” she says.

“The audience of course gets permission to laugh at places when the senility comes in, but it’s that core truth that makes Yenta.”

Tickets to see the award-winning musical that is touring across North America range in price from $50 to $76.