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Fiddler on the Roof has been around on Broadway since 1964. It has been nominated for ten Tony awards and has won nine of them. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters and other stories by Sholem Aleichem and is set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. Fiddler on the Roof has gained international popularity and had a successful 1971 film adaptation. Many schools and communities also make productions of the play.

Fiddler on the Roof focuses on the efforts of Tevye, a dairyman, his wife, Golde, and their five daughters who are coping with their harsh existence under Tsarist rule. Yente, the village matchmaker, tells Golde that Lazar Wolf, the wealthy butcher, a widower of Tevye's age wants to wed Tzeitel, their oldest daughter. Tzeitel wants to marry her childhood friend, Motel the tailor. Motel is afraid to ask Tevye for Tzeitel's hand in marriage. He is very poor and wants to save up for a sewing machine so he can show that he can support a family.

Tevye agrees that Tzeitel should marry Lazar since he is rich and can provide for her. Golde is extremely happy in his decision, but Tzeitel begs him not to force her. Motel arrives and says that he has pledged to marry her and she will not starve as his wife. Tevye agrees to let them marry. Meanwhile, Tevye's middle daughter, Chava, is teased by some Russian youths, but one of them, Fydeka, stands up for her and a secret relationship starts. At the wedding, a fight breaks out between Lazar and Tevye over the broken agreement. Perchik dances with Tevye's daughter Hodel. Russians ride into the village and disrupt the party by damaging wedding gifts and wound Perchik when he tries to fight them.

In Act II of Fiddler on the Roof, Perchik tells Hodel months later that he has to go back to Kiev to work for the revolution. He proposes to her and she accepts. He says that he will send for her. Tevye forbids the marriage. They tell him that they are not asking for his permission, only his blessing. He later realizes that the world and the ways of marriage are changing around him and he gives them his blessing and his permission. Perchik is later arrested and exiled to Siberia. Hodel leaves to join him.

Motel purchases a sewing machine and he and Tzeitel are pregnant. Chava asks Tevye if she can marry Fyedka. He cannot cross the line of letting her marry outside the Jewish faith. Chava elopes with him. Tevye tells the family to consider her dead. Meanwhile, rumors are spreading that the Russians are expelling Jews from their villages. Chava and Fyedka leave for Krakow. Motel and Tzietel leave for Poland. Tevye, Golde and their two youngest daughters leave for America. The fiddler plays and follows them out of the village.

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