Fiddler on the Roof: Difference between revisions

* [[Child Marriage Veto]]: Tzeitel refuses to marry Lazar when Tevye tells her of the match. {{spoiler|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.}}

* [[Compliment Backfire]] - TWO right after the other. Tevye tells the constable it's a shame he's not a Jew. The constable laughs it off, and tells Tevye he likes his joking. Both of them, however, realize what the other was saying, and look pretty miffed afterward.

* [[Dark Reprise]] - of "Tradition" after Tevye disowns {{spoiler|Chava}}. No words, but the chorus dancing in the back... dancing like they're trapped and can never escape...

* [[Downer Ending]] - The only positive thing you can take out of that ending is that they didn't die.

* [[Dream Ballet]]

* [[Epic Song]]: If the entire male cast of the show is not doing its best to make "L'Chaim (To Life)" as bombastic, over-the-top and showstopping as humanly possible, that cast is doing it wrong.

* [[First Girl Wins|First Guy Wins]]: Subverted, in the film at least; during the opening number "Tradition," we see Lazar Wolf looking at Tzeitel right before panning to Motel.

** Well Motel and Tzeitel are [[Victorious Childhood Friend|childhood friends]].

* [[Title Drop]]: "You might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof."

* [[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 chose 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 [[Averted Trope|keeping him]] from [[Moral Event Horizon|becoming a failed human being]].

* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]] - Motel.

* [[Wedding Smashers]] - Oh, [[Those Wacky Nazis|those wacky Cossacks.]]