The Jewish people of Anatevka joyously sing a hopeful song in the face of an uncertain future.
Seen and Heard wrote "In the inn scene Tevye leads a toast ‘To Life’ featuring an extravagant display of Jewish and Cossack folk dancing".
[1] NewsWorks described it as a "winning song", and added "the perfectly paced scene changes the tone of the production and accelerates its beat".
[5] NC Arts Review jokingly noted "Russian dancers show off their culture’s great history of destroying their kneecaps through dance".
In the eighth episode of the first season of The Big Bang Theory, a drunk Sheldon Cooper performs the song at the Cheesecake Factory.