A Shoggoth on the Roof
A Shoggoth on the Roof A Shoggoth on the Roof is a musical adaption of Fiddler on the Roof based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Published by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, it is credited to a member of the society who is referred to only as "He Who (for legal reasons) Must Not Be Named". There have been many legal difficulties in performing "Shoggoth"; however, it was staged for the first time by insane cultists at Miskatonicon, a Lovecraft convention in Sweden, on November 4, 2005. A Shoggoth on the Roof was staged for the first time in English at a games convention, Leprecon in Ireland on February 23, 2007. The production was organised by the Trinity College, Dublin Gamers Society. They avoided the legal issues surrounding the Fiddler on the Roof score by using a completely new score written for the musical by Aidan Marsh. The "Tevye" is Professor Henry Armitage, the librarian at the fictional Miskatonic University in 1920s America in ...