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Before Sunrise Soundtrack' title='Before Sunrise Soundtrack' />Gabriel Damon, Actor The Land Before Time. Gabriel was born in Reno, Nevada to Anne David. From a young age Gabriel was surrounded by music and the performing arts. Tequila Sunrise is a 1988 American crime thriller film written and directed by Robert Towne. It stars Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell, with Ral. Firsttime director Chris Evans stars alongside Alice Eve in this nocturnal odyssey of two strangers in New York. Gabriel Damon IMDb. Gabriel was born in Reno, Nevada to Anne David. From a young age Gabriel was surrounded by music and the performing arts and at the age of three his familly moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career for him in acting. Gabriel got work quickly, landing a coveted role in the 1. TV series Call to Glory 1. Fiddler on the Roof Wikipedia. Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in 1. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters or Tevye the Dairyman and other tales by Sholem Aleichem. The story centers on Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attempts to maintain his Jewish religious and cultural traditions as outside influences encroach upon the familys lives. He must cope both with the strong willed actions of his three older daughters, who wish to marry for love each ones choice of a husband moves further away from the customs of his faith and with the edict of the Tsar that evicts the Jews from their village. The original Broadway production of the show, which opened in 1. Fiddler held the record for the longest running Broadway musical for almost 1. Grease surpassed its run. It remains the sixteenth longest running show in Broadway history. The production was extraordinarily profitable and highly acclaimed. It won nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical, score, book, direction and choreography. It spawned five Broadway revivals and a highly successful 1. It is also a very popular choice for school and community productions. BackgroundeditFiddler on the Roof is based on Tevye and his Daughters or Tevye the Dairyman, a series of stories by Sholem Aleichem that he wrote in Yiddish between 1. Jewish life in a village in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia at the turn of the 2. It is also influenced by Life Is with People, by Mark Zborowski and Elizabeth Herzog. Aleichem wrote a dramatic adaptation of the stories that he left unfinished at his death, but which was produced in Yiddish in 1. Yiddish Art Theater and made into a film in the 1. In the late 1. 95. Tevye and his Daughters, was produced Off Broadway by Arnold Perl. Rodgers and Hammerstein and then Mike Todd briefly considered bringing this musical to Broadway but dropped the idea. Investors and some in the media worried that Fiddler on the Roof might be considered too Jewish to attract mainstream audiences. Other critics considered that it was too culturally sanitized, middlebrow and superficial Philip Roth, writing in The New Yorker, called it shtetl kitsch. Jaye Rose Prince. For example, it portrays the local Russian officer as sympathetic, instead of brutal and cruel, as Sholom Aleichem had described him. Aleichems stories ended with Tevye alone, his wife dead and his daughters scattered at the end of Fiddler, the family members are alive, and most are emigrating together to America. The show found the right balance for its time, even if not entirely authentic, to become one of the first popular post Holocaust depictions of the vanished world of Eastern European Jewry. Harold Prince replaced the original producer Fred Coe and brought in directorchoreographer Jerome Robbins. The writers and Robbins considered naming the musical Tevye, before landing on a title suggested by various paintings by Marc Chagall that also inspired the original set design. Contrary to popular belief, the title of the musical does not refer to any specific painting. During rehearsals, one of the stars, Jewish actor Zero Mostel, feuded with Robbins, whom he held in contempt because Robbins had testified before the House Un American Activities Committee and hid his Jewish heritage from the public. Other cast members also had run ins with Robbins, who reportedly abused the cast, drove the designers crazy and strained the good nature of Hal Prince. SynopsiseditTevye, a poor Jewish milkman with five daughters, explains the customs of the Jews in the Russian shtetl of Anatevka in 1. Tradition. At Tevyes home, everyone is busy preparing for the Sabbath meal. His sharp tongued wife, Golde, orders their daughters, Tzeitel, Hodel, Chava, Shprintze and Bielke, about their tasks. Yente, the village matchmaker, arrives to tell Golde that Lazar Wolf, the wealthy butcher, a widower older than Tevye, wants to wed Tzeitel, the eldest daughter. The next two daughters, Hodel and Chava, are excited about Yentes visit, but Tzeitel is unenthusiastic Matchmaker, Matchmaker. A girl from a poor family must take whatever husband Yente brings, but Tzeitel wants to marry her childhood friend, Motel the tailor. The Fiddler by Marc Chagall, from which the musical takes its name. Tevye is delivering milk, pulling the cart himself, as his horse is lame. He asks God Whom would it hurt If I Were a Rich Man Avram, the bookseller, has news from the outside world about pogroms and expulsions. A stranger, Perchik, hears their conversation and scolds them for doing nothing more than talk. The men dismiss Perchik as a radical, but Tevye invites him home for the Sabbath meal and offers him food and a room in exchange for tutoring his two youngest daughters. Golde tells Tevye to meet Lazar after the Sabbath but does not tell him why, knowing that Tevye does not like Lazar. Tzeitel is afraid that Yente will find her a husband before Motel asks Tevye for her hand. But Motel resists he is afraid of Tevyes temper, and tradition says that a matchmaker arranges marriages. Motel is also very poor and is saving up to buy a sewing machine before he approaches Tevye, to show that he can support a wife. The family gathers for the Sabbath Prayer. After the Sabbath, Tevye meets Lazar at Mordchas inn, assuming mistakenly that Lazar wants to buy his cow. Once the misunderstanding is cleared up, Tevye agrees to let Lazar marry Tzeitel with a rich butcher, his daughter will never want for anything. All join in the celebration of Lazars good fortune even the Russian youths at the inn join in the celebration and show off their dancing skills To Life. Outside the inn, Tevye happens upon the Russian Constable, who has jurisdiction over the Jews in the town. The Constable warns him that there is going to be a little unofficial demonstration in the coming weeks a euphemism for a minor pogrom. The Constable has sympathy for the Jewish community but is powerless to prevent the violence. The next morning, after Perchiks lessons with her young sisters, Tevyes second daughter Hodel mocks Perchiks Marxist interpretation of a Bible story. He, in turn, criticizes her for hanging on to the old traditions of Judaism, noting that the world is changing. To illustrate this, he dances with her, defying the prohibition against opposite sexes dancing together. The two begin to fall in love. Later, a hungover Tevye announces that he has agreed that Tzeitel will marry Lazar Wolf. Golde is overjoyed, but Tzeitel is devastated and begs Tevye not to force her. Motel arrives and tells Tevye that he is the perfect match for Tzeitel and that he and Tzeitel gave each other a pledge to marry. He promises that Tzeitel will not starve as his wife. Tevye is stunned and outraged at this breach of tradition, but impressed at the timid tailors display of backbone. After some soul searching Tevyes Monologue, Tevye agrees to let them marry, but he worries about how to break the news to Golde. An overjoyed Motel celebrates with Tzeitel Miracle of Miracles. In bed with Golde, Tevye pretends to be waking from a nightmare. Golde offers to interpret his dream, and Tevye describes it Tevyes Dream. Goldes grandmother Tzeitel returns from the grave to bless the marriage of her namesake, but to Motel, not to Lazar Wolf.