xxBroadwayBabyxx
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Whose Your Favorite?If you could choose your top -two- most favorite characters in "Fiddler On The Roof"..
A-Who Would It Be?
B-And Why Are They Your Favorites?
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My two most favorite characters, although I love all of them I have to choose Hodel because to me she's the type of character who goes after what she wants, and she seems very brave, and then you can play with all of her emotions as well, and of course because she has the song "Far From The Home I Love" and we also get to see her fall in love.
My second favorite would have to be Tevye, because to me he's just loveable, and it seems he really just wants his family to be happy. And it seems he would go to the end on the world for his daughters (besides the fact his disowns Chava.) But other than that I just love him!!
Those are my two favorites and why.
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xxalwfan1989xx
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My two favorites are:
Fruma-Sarah, the ghost of Lazar Wolf's first wife, and Tevye, the main character.
Why I like them:
Fruma-Sarah is cool because she shares my name (Sarah), and also because she has one of the more interesting parts in the whole musical. I think Tevye's dream was really strange to watch.
Tevye is cool because it seems he will go to great lengths to ensure that his family is happy. I have to give him props for having the awesome song that is "Tradition," as well.
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curlyhairedsoprano91
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Props to whomever said Fruma Sarah ... I'm playing her right now. Definitely fun, although not much in terms of character development. 
Perchik has always been a favorite of mine, despite being annoyingly self-righteous at times. He has a good head on his shoulders.
Fyedka, although he does have a minor role, I've always seen as a "good guy." He truly loves Chava and doesn't try to push her away from her family, going as far as extending pleasantries to Tevye.
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Mark Walton
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| curlyhairedsoprano91 wrote: | | Fyedka, although he does have a minor role, I've always seen as a "good guy." He truly loves Chava and doesn't try to push her away from her family, going as far as extending pleasantries to Tevye. |
I too vote for Fyedka, because he is in the end a mensch - a decent human being. Even before he met Chava, Fyedka was clearly respected among other young Russians; witness the way he shooed away Sasha and others who had accosted Chava. Clearly he meant business, none of them hung around to question or argue with him. In the end he sent 2 very strong messages: "Hey Mr. Tsar, you're asking the wrong boy to do your dirty work! That's my wife's family - my family - you're kicking out of their house and home!" And to Tevye: "You're not brushing me off that easily! We're all children of the same God, even if we worship Him in different ways!" In the end Tevye relented partially, muttering "God be with you!", relayed by Tzeitel; that left the door open for a possible future reconciliation.
Fyedka's polar opposite is the Constable - the one Russian Tevye always trusted as a friend, but who was the source of his ultimate betrayal. The Constable was in the end almost totally unprincipled, putting self-preservation above his friendship with Tevye. He tipped off Tevye to the upcoming "little unofficial demonstration" - which turned out to be the trashing of Tzeitel's wedding reception; all he could offer were lame excuses like "orders are orders". At the eviction, he tried to deny any personal responsibility for the order. Like anyone in the Tsar's service, the Constable had little choice but to follow orders (in the movie, just before the wedding, a visiting superior coldly threatened to replace him). Like everyone, he was ultimately answerable to his conscience for his actions, or inactions. That principle was clearly established at the Nürnberg war crimes trails of the 1940s, along with the principle that merely following orders blindly is no excuse for atrocities.
The Fyedka-Constable contrast points up a sub-theme of Fiddler: certain human traits, good or bad, can cut right across cultural, ethnic, and religious lines. Also, it might prompt a related question: Who is your least favorite Fiddler character?
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