The musical ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ is loosely based on ‘Tevye the Dairyman’, a story by the Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem.
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Tevye
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The actor playing Tevye was just doing a Zero Mostel impression instead of giving his own genuine take on the character.
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