Has anyone seen Topol in the Fiddler tour?

[delucad15]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 2:44pm

Has anyone seen Topol in the Fiddler tour? is it worth seeing? please post a review

[MarkCohen2]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 2:48pm

i think i read somewhere that the tour wasn't very good

[BroadwayMelody]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 8:07pm

I'm going in February. Hopefully it is good!

[delucad15]

Posted: 9/4/08 at 6:26am

im hopefully going in february too, pittsburgh?

[BroadwayMelody]

Posted: 9/4/08 at 6:28pm

No in Providence.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 9/4/08 at 7:15pm

Soooo ooooooold

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 9/4/08 at 10:41pm

I know I already mentioned that Topol is really frickin' old, but seriously...he must be almost like...75. I mean, Jesus. Isn't the role a little demanding for a 75-year-old dude to be taking on nightly? Updated On: 9/4/08 at 10:41 PM

[puppet]

Posted: 9/4/08 at 11:11pm

When a tour came here a few years ago, he was not very good. He seemed bored and just walking through the part. I wouldn't want to see him do it again.

[misto625]

Posted: 9/5/08 at 12:32am

The new Topol Fiddler tour hasn't even had auditions yet, so this thread is a bit premature

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 9/5/08 at 6:38am

He's in 'Gigi' at the Open Air Theatre Regents Park in London at the moment with Millicent Martin.

[PottstownTeacher]

Posted: 9/5/08 at 8:14am

I saw Topol in FIDDLER in January of 1991 when the Pre-Broadway tour stopped in Philadelphia. I loved it! But even back then, that was 20 years after the film was made, so he was a little long in the tooth. I can't even imagine what he's doing now. But then again, Carol Channing played Dolly well into the 90's, and I was there to see it, so what can ya do???

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/5/08 at 11:14am

I saw it back in '89 here in L.A. with Topol at the Ahmanson. He walked through the part back then, until he got to "To Life!" Then he suddenly came alive and was focused. My theory was that he was drinking actual BOOZE in the tavern scene (*joke*). The rest of his performance was excellent that night. But he sure had a long "warm up" to get there.

But that was almost 20 years ago! I can't imagine what he's like in it now.

[ErinDillyFan]

Posted: 9/5/08 at 12:41pm

I saw him in the national tour in the early 90s. I thought he was great then, but he is a little old to have teenage daughters these days, isn't he?

Maybe he should be playing Lazar Wolf.

I have tickets for March when he comes to Detroit.
Updated On: 9/5/08 at 12:41 PM

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 9/6/08 at 11:14am

HE'S SO OOOOOOOOOOOOLD

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 9/7/08 at 5:55pm

HE"S IN 'GIGI' IN LONDON!!!! HELLO!

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 9/25/08 at 12:43am

My friend attended the audition for the upcoming tour today and it was so crowded with Equity actors that none of the non-Equity actors (and she implied that even some Equity members and alternates didn't) get seen.

[alterego]

Posted: 9/25/08 at 8:34am

He spent most of last year touring Australia and New Zealand in FIDDLER. Yes he is old but not nearly as old and tired as the sets were. He owns the sets and if you want him to do the show you have to hire his sets as well. These sets were made for a production of the show he did in Tel Aviv many, many moons ago and should been sent to the tip shortly thereafter.

[MamasDoin'Fine]

Posted: 10/29/08 at 5:10pm

Topol in 'Gigi'
London 2008 Updated On: 10/29/08 at 05:10 PM

[willep]

Posted: 10/29/08 at 10:33pm

he seems pretty energetic in that picture, haha

[wonkit]

Posted: 10/30/08 at 12:01am

He looks surprisingly well. But his part in "Gigi" is hardly as demanding as Tevye.

[Paul W. Thompson]

Posted: 10/30/08 at 12:58am

He is reportedly just turned 73.

And for those of us who are almost that old--

Topol--it's an actor AND a tooth polish......!

[DAME]

Posted: 10/30/08 at 2:44am

He is still doing it? Oh dear. I saw him do it just a few years ago at the Wilshire Theater here in Los Angeles. He was fine... but it was a very, very, tired looking production.

[MamasDoin'Fine]

Posted: 10/30/08 at 7:38am

Dame, do you mean 'Fiddler' or 'Gigi'?