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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)

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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	comment	Fiddler on the Roof is a popular 1964 musical based on a set of stories by Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (pen name for Solomon Rabinovich), with a book by Joseph Stein, music by Jerry Bock, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick.Set in the fictional shtetl of Anatevka, in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire (in what is now Ukraine), just before the Revolution of 1905, it tells the story of Tevye, a Jewish milkman with five daughters: Tzeitel, Hodel, Chava, Schprintze, and Bielke. The plot centers on Tevye and Golde's efforts to find husbands for their daughters, but their daughters break tradition by opting to Marry for Love rather than having their marriages arranged by Yente, the town's matchmaker.The original Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins (his last original Broadway show), starred Zero Mostel, but producer-director Norman Jewison refused to cast him in the movie, feeling that his performance was too over-the-top, and instead chose Chaim Topol, the star of the London production. note Mostel was so pissed off at the rejection, that when his son, Josh Mostel, later received a phone call from Jewison, offering him the role of King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar, for which he accepted, the elder Mostel reportedly retorted, "You should have told him to hire Topol's son!" The movie was released in 1971.As a stage musical, Fiddler on the Roof was an international success, with multiple productions breaking records in Europe, South America, Africa, and Australia. It was a particularly big hit in Israel (for obvious reasons), and is the longest running musical ever produced in Japan (for... less obvious reasons?). It remains a popular choice for high schools and community theater to this day, as well as multiple revivals on and off Broadway.Fidler Afn Dakh, an adaptation of the musical by Shraga Friedman in Yiddish, the language of the original stories, was first produced in Israel in 1966. The first professional American production of this version opened off Broadway in 2019.See also Tevya, a 1939 non-musical adaptation of the same source material.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Tevye and Golde, who after nearly 30 years of bickering, childbearing, and drudgery, realize that they really do love each other.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_117c6f30	type	Old Man Marrying a Child
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_117c6f30	comment	Old Man Marrying a Child: It's a plot point that it's not uncommon for this to happen due to Arranged Marriage, as mocked in the song "Matchmaker, Matchmaker." Tzeitel gets betrothed to a man who is actually older than her own father but fortunately for her, Tevye changes his mind and lets her marry for love.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: In the opening scene, Tevye says the Jewish community doesn't bother the Christian community, and "so far, they don't bother us." One guess as to what happens during the course of the show.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_17f88647	type	Egocentrically Religious
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_17f88647	comment	Egocentrically Religious: Tevye complains to God a fair bit, notably making the case in song that it would be a very good thing if he were a rich man. On another occasion he starts to argue with God by pontificating "As the Good Book Says..." before realizing that God already knows perfectly well what the Good Book says. Ultimately he's self-aware enough to avoid actually being this trope, but he's pushing it a bit.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "You might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof." [...] "Without our traditions, our lives would be as shaky as... as a fiddler on the roof!"
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_1c090ec2	type	Troubled Sympathetic Bigot
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_1c090ec2	comment	Troubled Sympathetic Bigot: Tevye is constantly struggling with his belief in tradition versus his three daughters' yearning for liberation. He manages to accept the first two of them (who want to choose their own husbands, but within their own ethnic group), but draws the line with the third (who falls in love with a Christian). With this daughter, Tevye is shown to be on the edge of committing Honor-Related Abuse: but he never carries it out, making him a failed patriarch but keeping him from becoming a failed human beingnote He fully disowns her in the original stories, see Values Dissonance on the YMMV page. By the end of the show he hasn't fully come around, but he's starting to when he finally acknowledges his daughter and her husband.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: The Constable, and if "To Life" is any hint, possibly the rest of the Russian villagers. Except for the fact that there is a very obviously implied tension when the Russian Villagers join the dancing. It recedes, jumps up when Tevye bumps into one, and recedes again, but is always there.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The film includes three scenes not portrayed in the stage show: The constable is given orders from his superior, who calls the Jews "Christ-killers." Perchik actually shown being arrested in Kiev after making a speech about his communist views. A short scene where Golde actually enters the church to ask the priest, a scene only described on stage.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Probably Trope Namer. Tevye is always saying this to everyone, including the audience. And he tries to tell God "As the Good Book says ..." before realizing that God wrote the Good Book. Subverted in that he makes up most of the quotes or gets them wrong. Motel's song "Miracle of Miracles" is also filled with biblical allusions.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_267ce120	type	Dirty Old Man
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: Averted. Lazar Wolf is in his 50s and wants to marry a woman less than half his age, but it's a case of Values Dissonance and he's not shown to be lecherous or creepy. He's portrayed as a decent human being who is lonely after the death of his wife, grows fond of a woman who visits his butcher shop often, and genuinely cares about her, with realistic In-Universe reactions from other characters (e.g. Tzeitel is little a squicky about the age, but mostly just is annoyed that it's not Motel she'd be marrying; Tevye feels uneasy about having a son-in-law who is his own age, but isn't flat-out against the idea, and it's more important to him that Lazar Wolf is going to treat her well and take care of her).
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_26cce216	type	Age-Progression Song
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_26cce216	comment	Age-Progression Song: "Sunrise, Sunset" marvels at how quickly the couple went from birth to childhood to marriage.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_27690f66	type	Literary Allusion Title
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_27690f66	comment	Literary Allusion Title: Zig-Zagged. The story comes from a literary source, but the title is an allusion to a famous painting by artist Marc Chagall, which shows a surreal violinist suspended above the housetops of a Russian shtetl. On the other hand, the painting's title is just "The Fiddler", no mention of a roof. (The producers considered getting Chagall to do the production design for the musical, but he wasn't interested.)
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: In the Yiddish production, some Russian is thrown in for good measure, especially for the Constable and Fyedka, to remind us that this play takes place in Russian Empire. It would be more natural—for Fyedka at least—to speak Ukrainian than Russian though.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: Many people, including the studio heads who hired him, have been surprised to learn that the film's director Norman Jewison is not Jewish at allnote he's a Protestant Christian.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_2bf993ad	type	Secret Relationship
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_2bf993ad	comment	Secret Relationship: Chava and Fyedka keep their relationship from Tevye until it's too late.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_2d047747	type	Gossip Evolution
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_2d047747	comment	Gossip Evolution: "The Rumour" is an entire song of this.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_2fd7200b	type	Dead Guy Junior
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_2fd7200b	comment	Dead Guy Junior: Tevye's oldest daughter Tzeitel is named for her great-grandma, dead thirty years.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: An inverted example. Motel brags after getting his sewing machine that he'll no longer make any hand-made clothes. (At the time the movie was made and a century later, people are paying big bucks for hand-made clothes.)
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_3202a9b0	type	Money Song
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_3202a9b0	comment	Money Song: "If I Were A Rich Man", sort of. Ultimately, Tevye wishes he were rich because he wants his family to know comfort, his wife to be able to rest and avoid working herself thin (literally and figuratively), and for himself to have time to actually study the Torah.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_3545b7df	type	Proper Lady
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_3545b7df	comment	Proper Lady: Tzeitel. It's assumed Hodel would have become this had she not fallen in love with Perchik. She originally had a crush on the rabbi's son.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_37065c74	type	Hangover Sensitivity
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_37065c74	comment	Hangover Sensitivity: Tevye has a bad case the morning after the drinking song, and is very put out when Golde keeps clapping her hands for joy.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_37c0711c	type	Betrayal by Offspring
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_37c0711c	comment	Betrayal by Offspring: Tevye considers Chava to have done this for wanting to marry a non-Jew.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_38e5177d	type	Jews Love to Argue
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_38e5177d	comment	Jews Love to Argue: Invoked in the opening when Tevye happily informs the viewer that amongst the Jews in the village everyone gets along. Then he casually goes over to a pair bartering over a horse and instigates a loud, angry argument, that appears to involve all of the Jewish characters in the market. In the film, Tevye starts a huge argument between two groups arguing about whether Neighbor 1 sold Neighbor 2 a 6-year-old or 12-year-old horse. The whole village seems to get in on it. In the Yiddish translation, the argument is changed to whether it was a tsig (a he-goat) or a bok (a she-goat). Tevye and some of the other men of the village when Perchik is first introduced. Tevye is actually very pleased when Motel snaps and yells in his face, as it proves he has become man enough to argue back.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_3c2761a1	type	Dance-Off
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_3c2761a1	comment	Dance-Off: A variant happens in the bar twice when Tevye and Lazar are celebrating. At first when the Russians show up, everything is tense and the Jewish patrons are worried until then the Russians start singing and dancing. Then one Russian accidentally bumps into Tevye and nearly trips over, and the whole place goes silent and it looks like a fight may break out. The Russian offers Tevye a hand-shake and then starts dancing and Tevye soon declares the Russian dance style is pretty fun, and then everyone joins back in dancing together and men of each group are dancing in the style of the other. It's not quite a Dance-Off but close, and has about the same effect.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The Jews of Anatevka may have been forced to leave the Russian Empire entirely, but at least they got out alive, and in time to avoid World War I and the Russian Civil War. Apart from those eight years of warfare wrecking the economy and killing a tenth of a population of the entire Empire, the latter was known for its even more violent pogroms against Russian Jews committed by the Reds and Whites (the Greens opposed them, but were too weak to stop them happening). On the other hand, those of them who went to Poland not only would've had the frontlines move through the country thrice (once in the World War, twice in the Polish-Soviet War), but later, well... As for Tevye and his family, his three daughters are married (not in the way he expected, though) but he may very well never see Hodel or Chava ever again. And the fiddler follows them away, as does the traditions it symbolizes. Thus Tevye finds a balance between the changing world and tradition.note Though in some productions, Tevye leaves the fiddler behind.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_41438c44	type	Choosy Beggar
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_41438c44	comment	Choosy Beggar: The prologue ("Tradition") shows an interaction between wealthy townsman Lazar Wolf and Nahum the Beggar, in which Lazar offers Nahun a kopek and Nahum protests that Lazar gave him two kopeks the previous week. After Lazar responds that he had a bad week, Nahum retorts, "Because you had a bad week, I should suffer??". The scene basically is a staging of a stock joke about Schnorrers (essentially professional beggars).
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_44cf7d2c	type	Incredibly Long Note
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_44cf7d2c	comment	Incredibly Long Note: The Russian soloist's "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... zaaaa, vaaaaa, sha zdarovia" in "To Life." It is not uncommon for betting to be going on backstage about when the actor will pass out. (Answer: not before he gets his applause, dammit!) Fruma Sarah exits "Tevye's Dream" with a long note. "Here's my wedding present, if she marries Lazar WOOOOOOOOOOOOOLFFFFFFFFFF!"
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_462e2f79	type	The Outside World
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_462e2f79	comment	The Outside World: Russians are mostly the outside world to the Jews. Even if when Lazar Wolf buys for everyone to celebrate his wedding Russians are perfectly happy to get joyfully smashed alongside Jews.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_487b1e5b	type	Marry for Love
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_487b1e5b	comment	Marry for Love: Tevye's daughters want to do this.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Of course, "Tradition" has Tevye talking directly to the audience. Otherwise, his conversations with God come off as this.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_52132531	type	Marriage Before Romance
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_52132531	comment	Marriage Before Romance: The marriage of Tevye and Golde was arranged and they have been together for years, having already raised their eldest children to adulthood, but it isn't until one of their daughters wants to marry for love that they start thinking about romance with one another. Their duet "Do You Love Me?" lampshades, describes and plays out the trope.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The 2016 Broadway revival began with Danny Burstein (the actor playing Tevye) dressed in modern clothing waiting at the Anatevka train station, and he reads the opening lines from supposedly a guidebook, then changes into Tevye. At the end, Burstein reappears in his modern dress joining the exiled Jews and pulling Tevye's cart.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: The constable, who is polite and respectful - even speaking to Tevye like a friend - when not being forced to carry out antisemitic orders from his superiors. His Cossack soldiers apparently have no problem dancing with Jewish villagers during one wedding celebration and then riding back into the village a few weeks later to sack it during another wedding. However, it's clear that the constable is uncomfortable doing so. In one scene, he seems to be convinced by the likelihood that any replacement would be wantonly cruel about it.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_5400ad8	type	Never Bareheaded
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_5400ad8	comment	Never Bareheaded: The characters are all Orthodox Jews, so this trope is naturally in play.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_54f999c	type	AlternateCharacterInterpretation
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_54f999c	comment	Alternate Character Interpretation: In-universe, Socialist-leaning Perchick gives the biblical story of Jacob the unconventional Aesop, "You must never trust an employer!" Hodel is skeptical.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: In the original books, Tevye had seven daughters (one of whom was never actually named), and many aspects of his life (such as his journey from abject poverty to respectable milk farmer, earning him the "Reb Tevye" moniker, and the suicide of one of his daughters) were cut out.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_5a852047	type	Sliding Scale of Adaptation Modification
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_5a852047	comment	Sliding Scale of Adaptation Modification: The film adaptation is a Type 4 (Near Identical Adaptation); it cuts out a few musical numbers, but is otherwise identical to the original musical. And the relation of the musical and film to the original stories is probably of a Pragmatic Adaptation.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: The constable and the village Russians, until the tsar's decrees force them to become Punch Clock Villains.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_5bb60a3c	type	The Presents Were Never from Santa
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_5bb60a3c	comment	The Presents Were Never from Santa: Golde changes her mind about Tzeitel marrying Motel instead of Lazar Wolf because of Tevye's prophetic dream from her great-grandmother... which Tevye entirely made up. The dream never happened.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: At the end of "If I Were a Rich Man", Tevye wonders if obtaining just a small fortune might upset some grand scheme the big guy upstairs might have.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: If the story's main theme is tradition vs. upheaval, the way the musical approaches that theme inverts the approach taken by its source material. Sholem Aleykhem's original stories, written for exclusively Jewish audiences around the turn of the (20th) century, stressed the importance of upholding tradition despite surrounding social change. The musical, which was intended for a more general audience, takes the position that change—both good and bad—is inevitable. (Which was pretty much the theme of The '60s, if you think about it.)
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_65c0f3fa	type	Dance of Romance
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_65c0f3fa	comment	Dance of Romance: Perchik and Hodel's constant bickering takes a turn when he shows her how men and women dance together in the city.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_661d7909	type	Maligned Mixed Marriage
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_661d7909	comment	Maligned Mixed Marriage: Tevye takes a very dim view of the idea of any of his daughters marrying outside the Jewish faith. When Chava eventually defies him and elopes with Fyedka, he disowns her and declares her dead to him.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_670de36f	type
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_670de36f	comment	"Leaving the Nest" Song: "Far From the Home I Love" for Hodel leaving to be with Perchik in Kiev. When the inhabitants forced to leave their village, they sing the song "Anatevka," which is about leaving home and becoming:
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_67882125	type	Lifesaving Misfortune
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_67882125	comment	Life Saving Misfortune: Probably. The edict that evicted the Jews forced them to leave Ukraine shortly before World War I started.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_6836fbcb	type	All Musicals Are Adaptations
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_6836fbcb	comment	All Musicals Are Adaptations: Adapted from Arnold Perl's play Tevye and his Daughters, which was adapted from the Sholem Aleichem's original collection of short stories entitled Tevye the Dairyman.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_6875260	type	Vodka Drunkenski
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_6875260	comment	Vodka Drunkenski: In "To Life", Tevye and Lazar Wolf join their Russian compatriots in getting royally smashed to celebrate Tzeitel's engagement.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_6ada388a	type	Russian Guy Suffers Most
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_6ada388a	comment	Russian Guy Suffers Most: Or, if you're already in Russia, Jewish Guy does.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_6b0f4552	type	Jewish Complaining
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_6b0f4552	comment	Jewish Complaining: Tevye has many things to complain about, and even uses it to save face in the last act. "Anatevka" mostly consists of the Jews singing about what an insignificant town Anatevka is and how difficult life there is to cope with being forced out of their homes.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Tzeitel tells Motel even a poor tailor is entitled to some happiness early on, when Motel is working up the courage to ask Tevye to marry Tzeitel. When Tevye later berates him for being â€œjust a poor tailor,â€� Motel snaps that even a poor tailor is entitled to some happiness. Especially in the movie version, Tzeitel looks pleased that he took what she said to heart.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: "Chava" is the original Hebrew for "Eve." She's the one to be cast out (of the family).
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_6ccba96b	type	Talking in Bed
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_6ccba96b	comment	Talking in Bed: Sets the stage for Tevye telling Golde his "dream" about Fruma-Sarah.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_6d6b8aa	type	Human Ladder
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_6d6b8aa	comment	Human Ladder: Not part of the story itself, but this technique is often used to portray the abnormally tall ghost of Fruma-Sarah. (Especially in modern high school productions, where technical equipment budgets tend to be limited.)
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_6da1d9ae	type	Parental Marriage Veto
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_6da1d9ae	comment	Parental Marriage Veto: The play portrays the breakdown of this tradition. Tzeitel and Motel accept that they need Tevye's consent to marry, but Perchik and Hodel announce their intention to marry with or without Tevye's consent, and ask only for his blessing. Finally Chava marries in secret after Tevye makes it clear that he will never accept her marrying outside the faith.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_71152dd	type	One Dialogue, Two Conversations
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_71152dd	comment	One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Are Tevye and Lazar talking about a milk cow, or about Tzeitel?
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_7130202a	comment	Jewish Mother: Golde fits the type to the letter, constantly nagging her husband, fretting about the housework, and trying to get each of her daughters married off to a Nice Jewish Boy.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_72b0dfd2	type	Being Good Sucks
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_72b0dfd2	comment	Being Good Sucks: The story starts off with his mule injuring its leg and Tevye's luck just goes downhill from there.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Golde, Motel and Shprintze all die in Sholem Aleichem's original stories (Shprintze drowned herself after her intended marriage was blocked by the groom's uncle; Golde died of an unspecified illness and Motel of tuberculosis)note Keep in mind that the original stories were written and published over the period of twenty years (1895 to 1914) and set "in present" (each story is actually framed as Tevye relating to Sholem Aleichem all the events which had happened since the preceding story). Hence people dying "off-screen" between the stories, which was more a reflection of relatively short life expectancy in the rural Russian Empire.. Here they survive to the end.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Perchik and Hodel start to bicker just about as quickly as they fall in love.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_78da8795	type	Dowry Dilemma
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_78da8795	comment	Dowry Dilemma: Alluded to in "Matchmaker".
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_79503ae9	type	Stout Strength
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_79503ae9	comment	Stout Strength: Tevye is often portrayed as going a bit soft about the belly with middle age. He's also shown hauling his loaded milk cart around after his horse injures its leg.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: When Tevye angrily rants about how he already promised Tzeitel to Lazar Wolf, she tearfully hits him back with:
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_7dfdcfa1	type	Hail to the Thief
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_7dfdcfa1	comment	Hail to the Thief: During the opening song "Tradition", a villager asks the rabbi if there is a blessing for the tsar. "Of course! 'May God bless and keep the tsar... far away from us!'"
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_7f6a0b31	type	All Jews Are Ashkenazi
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_7f6a0b31	comment	All Jews Are Ashkenazi: Justified, given that it takes place within the Pale of Settlement, the heartland of Ashkenazi culture.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_7fe8f0d1	type	That Wasn't a Request
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_7fe8f0d1	comment	That Wasn't a Request: When Perchik and Hodel tell Tevye (Hodel's father) of their engagement and he blusters that he won't allow it:
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: The rabbi's son cracks up when Tevye jokes that the Jews' constant migrations is "why we never take off our hats."
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: The story, taking place in an early 20th century Slavic Jewish community where Old Traditions (Arranged Marriage) were rapidly clashing with New Ideas (marrying for love), discusses this as a tradition; the original books suggested that it was a good idea, while the musical adaptation was more neutral on the subject. Each of Tevye's teenage daughters ultimately ended up with the man she wanted, but each suffered the consequences: Tzeitel lives in abject poverty with Motel, rather than the relative comfort she would have had with Lazar Wolf; Hodel winds up in Siberia and Chava is disowned. The practice was to keep marriages within the Jewish community, but the musical points out that this is why the system fails. Tevye and Golde's duet "Do You Love Me?" addresses the belief that an arranged marriage can ripen into love, while "Matchmaker", sung by the daughters, addresses both the pros and cons of arranged marriages.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Fruma-Sarah is specifically written to be played this way. Tevye also has his moments.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_8338de89	type	"I Want" Song
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_8338de89	comment	"I Want" Song: "Matchmaker, Matchmaker" for the three eldest girls (Tzeitel, Hodel, and Chava); "If I Were A Rich Man" for Tevye
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: The "New Arrival" at Motel and Tzeitel's that everyone is goo-gooing over is... a sewing machine. And done immediately in reverse when Tzeitel walks in with a newborn baby.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_8cb01d0e	type	Category Traitor
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_8cb01d0e	comment	Category Traitor: Tevye considers Chava to have passed the Moral Event Horizon for wanting to marry a guy who isn't Jewish, effectively telling her she is not his daughter when she comes asking for his acceptance of her marriage. This is both Truth in Television and Values Dissonance, as the fragility and small numbers of the Jewish faith â€” especially in the film's setting of pre-revolutionary Russia, where Jewish communities (as seen in the musical) were under constant threat of attack from the Christian majority â€” means that each marriage is an important part of the preservation of the religion. Marrying out of the faith for even many modern Orthodox Jews would be the ultimate betrayal as marrying a Gentile who doesnâ€™t first convert to Judaism is stringently forbidden by Halacha.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_8dd7a356	type	Long Last Look
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_8dd7a356	comment	Long Last Look: The cast sings "Anatevka" as they prepare to leave their village.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_8ebaf445	type	If I Were a Rich Man
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_8ebaf445	comment	If I Were a Rich Man: The Trope Namer, which also toys with it. The only real thing Tevye shows humbleness towards is that he would be able to work less so he could spend more time in Synagogue praying, which points up why he is willing to have his daughters tutored.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Distant cousins in this case. Motel is implied to be related to Tzeitel through her great grandmother's uncle.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: Where the three daughters ask Tevye for permission to be married in the film version reflect how far he has to go to accept them emotionally. Tzietel and Motel ask in his barnyard/on his property. Hodel and Perchik meet him on a bridge, halfway between his farm and the town. Chava asks him alone in a barren field seemingly far from any civilization.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: Though the Jewish population of Anatevka are forced from their homes, they maintain a degree of pride as they do so. Tevye chases the constable off with backing from the other villagers â€” "This is still my home, my land. GET OFF MY LAND!" â€” and later, Golde refuses to leave until she's swept the floor: "I don't want to leave a dirty house." It's implied that this is a special trait of Jewish people â€” regardless of their circumstances, they never give up hope.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_9af42bed	type	Appeal to Tradition
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_9af42bed	comment	Appeal to Tradition: There's a whole song about it!
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: During the film version of "Tradition," there's a glimpse of Lazar Wolf smiling brightly at Tzeitel as he prepares her purchase, which the woman next to her notices. This is followed by the man Tzeitel actually loves, at work. In â€œIf I Were a Rich Man,â€� Tevye sings, â€œThe most important men in town will come to fawn on me / They will ask me to advise them.â€� While they donâ€™t exactly fawn on him, when rumors start spreading about the Jews being forced out of Anatevka, all the men in the village show up at Tevyeâ€™s house to see what heâ€™s heard from the constable and ask him what they should do. Lazar asks Tevye how his brother-in-law in America is doing when he's making small talk before "To Life." At the end, as the Jews are driven out of Anatevka, Tevye, Golde, and family are going to travel to America to stay with him.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_9d3b4703	type	This Is Reality
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_9d3b4703	comment	This Is Reality: In "Matchmaker, Matchmaker", Hodel and Chava discuss their expectations for the men they want Yente to pair them with, with Hodel eying the rabbi's son. Tzeitel throws cold water on their fantasies, stating that, coming from a poor family with no dowries, they would be more likely to be matched with dirty old men or abusive drunks. Indeed, Yente's match for Tzeitel is a widower her father's age.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "Now I have piece of advice for you: This. Is still. My land. Get. Off. My. Land." "I! WANT! TO SEE! MOTEL'S! NEW! MACHINE! NOW!" "UNHEARD OF! ABSURD!"
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_a1575551	type	Living Prop
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_a1575551	comment	Living Prop: It is incredibly easy to forget that Tevye has two little daughters as well as his three teenage ones.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_a23613f9	type	Inconvenient Itch
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_a23613f9	comment	Inconvenient Itch: One character invokes this to another:
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_a2d1661a	type	HappilyArrangedMarriage
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_a2d1661a	comment	Happily Arranged Marriage: Tevye and Golde conclude that they do love each other even though their marriage was arranged and they had to learn to love each other. Tevye finds it difficult to allow his daughters to forgo an arranged marriage because it ultimately worked for him.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_a3026af9	type	Wedding Smashers
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_a3026af9	comment	Wedding Smashers: The Cossacks interrupt Motel and Tzeitel's wedding with "a little unofficial demonstration."
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Frequently, there are moments of celebration, family drama, oppression and comedy. A brutal example occurs during Motel and Tzeitel's wedding: the joyous celebration is violently broken up by the Constable and his men at the beginning of a pogrom. Tevye disowning his daughter for marrying outside the faith is an action which shows a very dark side of Orthodox Jewish tradition, and makes Tevye seem like the bad guy for once. However, this is followed by the Constable's announcement of banishment and everyone having to mournfully say goodbye to their village, which evokes pity for Tevye and all his neighbors by showing how precious that traditional way of life was to them.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_a551c7ee	type	Homosocial Heterosexuality
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_a551c7ee	comment	Homosocial Heterosexuality: The traditional Arranged Marriage custom is portrayed as an emotional and social affair between the groom and the father, the bride hardly being relevant to the process. And thus the plot is setting up for a massive backfire.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_a6a68db3	type	Humble Goal
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_a6a68db3	comment	Humble Goal: Ironically, the true motivation behind "If I Were a Rich Man." After describing all the nice things he and his wife could have and how important he'd seem to the rest of the village, Tevye quietly notes that being rich would free him to study Torah, pray in the synagogue, and discuss the holy books with learned men... things that a working man's life leaves him little time for.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Three girls, three marriages that undo their father's expectations. They have more girls than that, of course, but only three have plot-important rolesnote In the film and the musical, that is; see Fridge for the original stories; the others are not yet of marriageable age. And in the stories, Tevye has seven daughters (with a later Retcon to five though). Motel asks Tevye not to yell at him twice when heâ€™s asking to marry Tzeitel. The third time, he starts yelling back at Tevye, earning Tevyeâ€™s respect in the process.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_a79722c2	type	Parent-Preferred Suitor
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_a79722c2	comment	Parent-Preferred Suitor: Golde wants her oldest daughter to go along with Yente's matchmaking and marry Lazar Wolf, the butcher, an older widower who can provide for her. Tzeitel made a Childhood Marriage Promise to Motel, a poor tailor, and wants to keep it. Tevye, while not liking the uneducated Lazar, originally goes along with the arranged match. However, after a passionate appeal from the young lovebirds, he ultimately decides Tzeitel's happiness matters more than the traditional wedding arrangements.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_aa55cd25	type	Brawn Hilda
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_aa55cd25	comment	Brawn Hilda: Fruma Sarah, Lazar Wolf's deceased wife, is sometimes depicted as one of these.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_ab5d5d86	type	Evolving Music
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_ab5d5d86	comment	Evolving Music: A meta-example. With the popularity of "Sunrise, Sunset" as a wedding song, lyricist Sheldon Harnick produced two lightly rewritten versions with the words adjusted to fit a ceremony for a same-sex couple ("When did they get to be so handsome?"). Of course, the version in the show itself is unchanged.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Tevye gets one when he realises he has to tell his wife about their daughter's change in marriage plans.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Both Tevye and Golde have their moments. The Rabbi has a moment early in the musical when a congregant asks him if he has a special prayer for the Tsar.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_aff1ee2e	type	Small Reference Pools
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_aff1ee2e	comment	Small Reference Pools: In Hollywood, mentioning this play is a good way to establish that a character is a Jewish person even if the character hasn't actually mentioned having Jewish heritage.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_b15b6a35	type	Cosmic Plaything
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_b15b6a35	comment	Cosmic Plaything: Tevye seems to see himself, and the Jewish people as a whole, as this at times.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_b2280b66	comment	Three girls, three marriages that undo their father's expectations. They have more girls than that, of course, but only three have plot-important rolesnote In the film and the musical, that is; see Fridge for the original stories; the others are not yet of marriageable age. And in the stories, Tevye has seven daughters (with a later Retcon to five though).
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_b499dd39	type	All Issues Are Political Issues
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_b499dd39	comment	All Issues Are Political Issues: Perchik says this when he is trying to propose to Hodel.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_b66699a2	type	Mundane Luxury
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_b66699a2	comment	Mundane Luxury: Everyone in the village treats Motel's sewing machine like a gift from God Himself.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: A good deal of Yente's dialogue. Also invoked by Fyedke, who lists a few of his (somewhat boastful) good points, then tacks on, "and very modest."
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_b75cf01c	type	There Is No Rule Six
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_b75cf01c	comment	There Is No Rule Six: Tevye is mulling over whether to accept Chava marrying a non-Jew and says "On the other hand... there is no other hand!"
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_b7a18b59	type	Opening Chorus
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_b7a18b59	comment	Opening Chorus: "Traditiooooooon!"
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_b82ca416	type	Rage Against the Heavens
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_b82ca416	comment	Rage Against the Heavens: A light version in "If I Were A Rich Man," where Tevye asks God if it would really destroy his entire plan for the world to give Tevye some money. A more poignant one later when Tzeitel's wedding reception is interrupted by the Pogrom: Tevye can be seen silently asking God "Why? Why? WHY?"
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_bc70cbfe	type	Creepy Shadowed Undereyes
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_bc70cbfe	comment	Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: Played for Laughs in Tevye's "dream" sequence.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Do not tell Grandma Tzeitel that her great-granddaughter is marrying Lazar Wolf.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_be94b160	type	SmiteMeOhMightySmiter
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_be94b160	comment	Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter: Tevye does this in response to someone else's comment.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_c02f148d	type	Both Sides Have a Point
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_c02f148d	comment	Both Sides Have a Point: Provides that page's quote. The show in general runs on this trope. Tevye is caught in the clash between the traditional world and the modern world. He tries his best to be fair and see both sides of the situation, with many inner monologues about "on the one hand [...] but on the other hand". In the quote above, he gets ridiculed for not simply picking a side when two guys who both have valid ideas stick to parroting slogans at each other instead of making more nuanced arguments for their causes.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Daughter: What Tevye effectively tells Chava when he refuses to accept her marriage to a Gentile.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": In some productions, as Tevye disowns Chava, he shouts a Big "NO!" as she begs for his acceptance.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_c31dc964	type	Grew a Spine
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_c31dc964	comment	Motel at the start of the show. Chief among his reasons he hasnâ€™t asked to marry Tzeitel yet? Heâ€™s afraid Tevye will yell at him. He grows a spine during the first act, though.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_c673210e	type	Informed Judaism
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_c673210e	comment	Informed Judaism: Obviously Averted, to the point that mentioning "Fiddler on the Roof" is often used as shorthand to inform us that a character is Jewish.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_c675d08c	type	Compliment Backfire
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_c675d08c	comment	Compliment Backfire/My God, You Are Serious!:
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_c7839568	type	Nice Jewish Boy
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_c7839568	comment	Nice Jewish Boy: Motel. Though in perhaps a bit of an aversion, Golde would prefer her daughter to marry a wealthy older man like Lazar Wolf.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_c809bb38	type	Song of Prayer
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_c809bb38	comment	Song of Prayer: "If I Were a Rich Man" begins with Tevye asking God why he couldn't have a fortune, just a small one. He then sings a song imagining what it would be like to be rich, ending with the lyrics, It also has "Sabbath Prayer," which Tevye and his family sing as Perchik, the newcomer to the shtetl, joins them. "Sabbath Prayer" beseeches God to be loyal to his people, and for his people to stay loyal to God, and respect their traditions. Perchik reflects a more modern, revolutionary, viewpoint that threatens those traditions.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_ce104b8e	type	Serial Escalation
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_ce104b8e	comment	Serial Escalation: Tevye's frustration about his daughters' marriages manages to escalate with each one. Tzeitel has been arranged to marry the much older Lazar Wolf, but really loves her childhood friend Motel. It is a small breaking of tradition to break off the agreement with Lazar Wolf, but Motel does go through the traditional route of asking Tevye for Tzeitel's hand in marriage, and so Tevye grudgingly accepts it, and does begin to accept Motel as his son in law when the latter grows a spine. Hodel falls in love with Perchik, a stranger from out of town who begins to tutor Tevye's youngest daughters in exchange for room and board. Perchik is a Marxist and has much more liberal ideas than the tradition-minded people of Anatevka. When he and Hodel decide to get married, their engagement breaks tradition even more than Tzeitel and Motel's does as they make it clear that while they would like Tevye's blessing, they are not looking for his permission. Still, Tevye ultimately does give Hodel his blessing as he realizes the world is changing whether he likes it or not. Chava's relationship with Fyedka ends up being Tevye's breaking point. Fyedka is an Orthodox Christian though he heavily disapproves of the cruelties his fellow Russians are inflicting upon the Jews of Anatevka. When Chava asks for Tevye's blessing to marry Fyedka, the idea of marrying a non-Jew is simply a bridge too far for him, and when Chava elopes anyway, Tevye declares her dead to him. Though upon seeing her for what will likely be the final time ever upon preparing to leave Anatevka for America after the Russians forced them out, Tevye does give her a final acknowledgement, seeming to have forgiven her for her marriage.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_cfa546f4	type	Mother Russia Makes You Strong
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: The constable, while slightly demeaning toward Jews, doesn't despise them, and has a lot of respect for Tevye. His attacks on them are orders he follows from anti-semitic authorities, and he knows if he doesn't do it, the authorities would hire someone who would.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: Hodel and Perchik bicker, and then get married.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_d3bf2f55	type	Where Do You Think You Are?
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_d3bf2f55	comment	Where Do You Think You Are?: When Tevye is railing against Motel for wanting to arrange his own marriage: â€œWhere do you think you are? In Moscow? In Paris? Where do they think they are? America?â€� A stonier example at the end when Tevye faces the Constable: "And now I have some advice for you: This is still my land. Get off my land."
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Possibly the only reason why Tevye can make the "dream" about Fruma Sarah into a plausible excuse for marrying Tzeitel off to Motel. Even more clever and devious: Fruma Sarah's objection is the motivation; Grandma Tzeitel's is the excuse. When Yente comes by to speak with Golde, she rambles about going home to prepare her 'poor Sabbath meal', while casually piling all of the bread and cookies off Golde's plate into a napkin. Golde is so surprised she doesn't say anything.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_d8afec40	type	â€¦But He Sounds Handsome
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_d8afec40	comment	â€¦But He Sounds Handsome: Fruma Sarah's (completely fabricated) rant about her husband's remarriage includes "Such a learned man as Tevye wouldn't let it happen!"
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_d8dd1dc3	type	Handmade Is Better
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_d8dd1dc3	comment	Handmade Is Better: * In a humorous inversion, Motel the tailor is overjoyed when he acquires his first sewing machine, as it means his clothes can be produced more accurately and efficiently than when he had to hand-sew every stitch himself.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_dbfd6b8	type	Lyrical Dissonance
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_dbfd6b8	comment	Lyrical Dissonance: "To Life," a riotous showstopping dance number all about how life sucks most of the time, except when we can find an excuse to celebrate and get drunk. Plus, the tone is quite at odds with how it's celebrating a contrived, loveless marriage arrangement just after Tzeitel has agreed to marry her true love.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: The rabbi is beloved, takes the time to answer the questions of his congregants, and has a good sense of humor. Even though it's not traditional, he acknowledges that dancing with the opposite sex is not a sin. The constable appears to have been this until he started getting squeezed by higher-ups.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_dca97045	type	Just Following Orders
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: The Constable's justification for allowing "a little unofficial demonstration" of anti-semitism. He also faces removal from his post if he doesn't carry out the pogrom. He knows someone would do it, and he would rather it be him instead of someone far worse. The Constable even says at one point in the movie, "An order is an order!" which is a direct quote of the infamous Nuremberg defense. Considering the movie came out only about twenty-five years after the Nuremberg Trials, there's no way that was an accidental reference.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_de2ee4e8	type	Two-Act Structure
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_de2ee4e8	comment	Two-Act Structure: The first act lasts from the start to the end of Tzeitel and Motel's wedding, with the second picking up months later.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_e195807e	comment	Childhood Marriage Promise/Childhood Friend Romance: Motel and Tzeitel.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_e2c4b927	type	Dub Name Change
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_e2c4b927	comment	Dub Name Change: The Yiddish version transliterates most of the characters' names a little differently (Tzeitel is Tsaytl, Hodel is Hodl, Chava is Khave, etc).
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_e2e4edb2	type	Yiddish as a Second Language
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_e2e4edb2	comment	Yiddish as a Second Language: A bit downplayed, especially considering that historically all the characters (except the Russians) would have been speaking Yiddish as a first language. The original script has no Yiddish at all: "Mazel tov" ("Congratulations") and "L'Chaim" (famously explained in the song, "To life", a toast), are Hebrew. More recently, though, an off-Broadway production of the show translated entirely into Yiddish has been staged in New York to positive reviews.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: The constable is adamant that it's not a pogrom, it's just "a little unofficial demonstration".
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_e680af6f	type	Grief Song
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_e680af6f	comment	Grief Song: "Chavaleh". Although, if you actually listen to the lyrics, the whole play is a sort of grief-song. Even "To Life", one of the boisterous upbeat songs, has the lyrics:
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_e98afc99	type	Opinion-Changing Dream
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_e98afc99	comment	Opinion-Changing Dream: Invoked by Tevye to persuade his wife to let Tzeitel marry Motel.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_eb002293	type	Shrinking Violet
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_eb002293	comment	Shrinking Violet: Chava. She doesn't seem to have friends, unlike her older sisters, and she prefers reading to talking. She meets Fyedka when he stops two other men from picking on her, and she struggles throughout the play to tell Tevye about her friendship-turned-romantic-relationship with Fyedka. Motel at the start of the show. Chief among his reasons he hasnâ€™t asked to marry Tzeitel yet? Heâ€™s afraid Tevye will yell at him. He grows a spine during the first act, though.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_ed51d0	type	That Russian Squat Dance
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_ed51d0	comment	That Russian Squat Dance: Shows up at a couple of points in "To Life", which features it among a wide array of Russian dance moves.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_ed6c3220	type	Forgotten Theme Tune Lyrics
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_ed6c3220	comment	Forgotten Theme Tune Lyrics: Besides appearing as the melody for the daughters' and papas' verse, the fiddler's theme was released in sheet music form as the title song, "Fiddler on the Roof" with different lyrics:
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_ee5131cc	type	Dream Ballet
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_ee5131cc	comment	Dream Ballet: Accompanies the song "Chavaleh".
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted — Tzeitel's great-grandmother, who appears in the Tevye's "dream", is also named Tzeitel. Justified, as the younger Tzeitel was named for her great-grandmother.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_eeaee38c	type	Geeky Turn-On
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_eeaee38c	comment	Geeky Turn-On: Motel, the town tailor. Also Chava and Fyedka, who meet at the bookseller.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_ef3bf14b	type	Child Marriage Veto
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_ef3bf14b	comment	Child Marriage Veto: Tzeitel refuses to marry Lazar when Tevye tells her of the match. Granted, Tevye does relent after realizing how much she doesn't want to marry Lazar; Tzeitel might have gone along with it if he had continued to force the issue.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_f005700f	type	Conspicuous Consumption
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_f005700f	comment	Conspicuous Consumption: Tevye fantasizes about how extravagantly he would live if he were a rich man. Ultimately subverted in that the thing he wants the most, the greatest luxury of all...is to study the holy books with the learned men every day.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_f3fd818b	type	Dark Reprise
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_f3fd818b	comment	Dark Reprise: "Tradition" after Tevye disowns Chava. No words, but the chorus dancing in the backâ€¦ dancing like they're trapped and can never escape...
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_fcb75a9	type	Movie Bonus Song
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_fcb75a9	comment	Movie Bonus Song Originally, in the film, in place of "Now I Have Everything", Perchik was going to sing "Any Day Now", but it ended up being cut. It was restored in the Yiddish production as a song Perchik sings to Bielke and Shprintze. In the 2004 Broadway revival, Bock (who was still alive at the time) and Harnick wrote a new song for Yente entitled "Topsy-Turvy" to replace "The Rumor/I Just Heard", where Yente laments on the diminishing matchmaker business. This has not been heard in subsequent productions, and as a result, "The Rumor" is reinstated.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: In the opening, Tevye mentions that one of their traditions is always wearing hats. In the end, Tevye speculates that maybe the reason hats are constantly worn is because historically Jews/Hebrews have been forced out of a number of places at a moment's notice.
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Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Ghost Song / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Gossip Evolution / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Gratuitous Russian / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Gratuitous Use of the Tallit / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Greedy Jew / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Grief Song / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Hail to the Thief / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Handmade Is Better / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Happily Married / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Hollywood Apocrypha / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Homosocial Heterosexuality / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Hope Spot / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	"I Am" Song / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	I Have No Son! / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	"I Want" Song / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	In Vino Veritas / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Inconvenient Itch / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Incredibly Long Note / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Jewish and Nerdy / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Jewish Complaining / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Jewish Mother / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Jews Love to Argue / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Judaism and Jewish Culture in Media / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Just Following Orders / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Keep It Foreign / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	/ int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Local Reference / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Logo Joke / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Long Last Look / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Lyrical Cold Open / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Maligned Mixed Marriage / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Marriage Before Romance / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Marriage of Convenience / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Marry for Love / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Medley Overture / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Mood Motif / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Musical World Hypotheses / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	My God, You Are Serious! / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Never Bareheaded / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Nice Jewish Boy / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Ode to Apathy / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Old Man Marrying a Child / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	One Dialogue, Two Conversations / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Opinion-Changing Dream / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Original Cast Precedent / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Overly Narrow Superlative / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Parallel Porn Titles / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Parent-Preferred Suitor / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Parental Marriage Veto / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Politically Incorrect Hero / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Preacher's Kid / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Protagonist Title Fallacy / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Scatting / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Secondary Character Title / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Setting Introduction Song / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	She Is All Grown Up / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Sitting on the Roof / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Song of Prayer / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Spared by the Adaptation / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Spiteful Spit / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Talking in Bed / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	That Russian Squat Dance / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	That Wasn't a Request / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Cover Changes the Gender / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Edwardian Era / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Outside World / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Presents Were Never from Santa / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	There Is No Rule Six / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	They Don't Make Them Like They Used To / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Thinking Out Loud / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Titled After the Song / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Totem Pole Trench / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Troubled Sympathetic Bigot / int_14e0f4f9
Tsarist Russia	seeAlso	Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Two-Act Structure / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Unable to Support a Wife / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Unaccustomed as I Am to Public Speaking... / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Values Resonance / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Voice Types / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Wedding Smashers / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	With Lyrics / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Writers Cannot Do Math / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	You Are Worth Hell / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Your Tradition Is Not Mine / int_14e0f4f9
Shoggoth on the Roof (Theatre)	seeAlso	Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	Audience Monologue / int_14e0f4f9
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Matchmaker / int_14e0f4f9
fiddlerontheroof	sameAs	Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre)

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