We saw Fiddler at Stratford Shakespeare Festival on July 4, 2000.
This was a different interpretation than the ones with Topol or Harvey Feinstein.
Brett Carver played Teyve as a religious, simple and subdued man. His reading of the part was brilliant for me.
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We've seen it once with Topol in London and once with Harvey Fierstein on Broadway. Also saw the original production with a much later cast, Paul Lipson as Tevye. Before I met Jackie she went with her family and saw Herschel Bernardi in the role.
Jeff M.
Just one more place I've failed to get my portion of culture.
I saw the Topol film in 1972 I think, when I was six years old. My parents dragged me to all these musicals, like Scrooge, Oliver and Fiddler and Fiddler was the only one that I didn't hate! Saw Topol in this the other year for his supposed farewell tour.
Patti - Oh, this is one of my all-time favourite shows! I'm so so glad you mentioned it! It must have been interesting to see a different interpretation of the Tevye role, though. I'm glad it worked as well as it did.
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