One of my favorite musicals!I have watched it over and over again with the same zest.There are many similarities with the Turkish tradition still surviving in Anatolia today.
I went to the one in New York City with Zero Mostel and it was the very first Broadway Show I saw and I have been hooked ever since. It was at the old Winter Garden
I agree! Mostel understood and spoke Yiddish and that is really essential for the role. Topol, an Israeli, spoke Hebrew...not the same kind of suffering.
Paul Lipson, 82, Who Appeared As Tevye Over 2,000 Times, died 1/3/1996. He was a brilliant actor who played Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof" for more performances than any other actor. He understudied for Zero Mostel as Tevye in 1964. He played Avram the book seller, Lazar Wolf, the butcher, when I was blessed to see him play in Hollywood in 1980 or 81, he took over as Tevye when Herschel Bernardi became ill. He was as brilliant as Topol. I hope this production is just as successful. God bless
Love Alfred Molina but it's weird that he's using an American accent. He's English but can do different accents. Wonder why he chose such a middle American dialect for a Ukrainian Jew of early 1900s? Or was this just for the Tony's? My sister was fortunate enough to see his version of Tevye years ago on Broadway. I'll have to ask her if she can recall what accent he used.
I saw this musical translated into Finnish and liked it. This March I'm about to see a real Broadway show Nice Work If You Can Get It when I'll visit New York. Looking forward to it.
@PsychoActor He was amazing, I saw this with my family when I was in New York City for the first time ever. It was a great experience during not one of the best years in my life. This was a highlight that's for sure!
I ask no pardon for believing differently. I believe that the cause of the trouble is not because I and others like me choose not to be particularly zionist. The troubles are due more to people who blame other Jews for their troubles.
Interesting way to put it. I never thought of it that way. But I have to be honest, I feel that Jewish suffering is Jewish suffering (even if I'm not particularly a Zionist).
omg stop arguing about religion under this video, you gettin on my nerves. WHY? when i was 7 years old this was my favorite musical, and I didn't even know what jew meant. I just liked themusic the dancing and the performance!
Yes, a million times yes. What's Al Molina doing here, a young, angry not-even-Jewish Tevye? What'll they come up with next, a gay Tevye--oh wait, they did!!(The great Harvey Feirstein) Vay is mir!
What has suffering to do with Mt. Zion and Zionism? We suffer in Israel like everywhere else but we have the illusion of independance. We lack full independance because some wish to be "not particularly zionists" and they spoil our chances! The musical is far from being a mirror of the literary work of Shalom Aleikhem (origin of the story)
They don't produce musicals like this one anymore... Genuine American art of musicals is dying. Today is popular musical like "Rent"and other garbage. No more "Fiddler on the Roof", "My fair lady", "Oliver", "Thoroughly Modern Millie" etc. This art is in convulsion like whole America -economically, culturally and politically. Thanks liberals and progressive politically correct skunks.
