TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
#1TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
Posted: 2/6/08 at 7:46pm
This link: http://www.troika.com/mktfiddler.html
makes me think that topol will be in the new fiddler tour.
"Relive a glorious tradition of the musical theatre with TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF."
#2re: TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
Posted: 2/6/08 at 7:56pmThey are making a new one for 08.
#3re: TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
Posted: 2/6/08 at 7:56pmSERIOUSLY? Where is it gonna be, how do you get tickets?
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#4re: TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
Posted: 2/6/08 at 7:57pmThey call him the original Tevye, but that's not quite true.
#5re: TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
Posted: 2/6/08 at 7:58pm
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#6re: TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
Posted: 2/6/08 at 8:02pmSo, dead doesn't mean you lose your accomplishments. Is the tour in London?
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#8re: TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
Posted: 2/6/08 at 8:04pmDoes it say he was the original London Topol?
#9re: TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
Posted: 2/6/08 at 8:12pmI don't know how to get tickets. I just am assuming they are making a tour because it is on there website, and I read somthing about it in variety.
nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#10re: TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
Posted: 2/6/08 at 8:28pmI saw Topol do this at the Gershwin several years ago. If it hadn't been for Marcia Lewis, I would have totally hated it. It was a very boring production. Topol was dull.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#11re: TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
Posted: 2/6/08 at 9:13pmDid you know he was only 35ish when he made the movie?
#12re: TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
Posted: 2/6/08 at 10:33pm
His last tour was AWFUL!!!!!!!
They better load that cast with "A"-list Broadway veteranss to save Him!
Oy Vey!
alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#13re: TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
Posted: 2/7/08 at 7:18am
In 2007 he did an Australia/New Zealand tour which was pretty average. There was talk of that production going to Asia. When you do the show with him part of the deal is that you use some of his scenery which he owns - it isn't good. He is 75 now.
If you go "that site" and search for "Fiddler- Australia 2007 I Just Wanna Dance" there is an interesting montage that the cast put together.
#14re: TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
Posted: 2/7/08 at 9:12amI emailed troika, and they said that Topol would be in it, and they are scedueling it now!
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#15re: TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
Posted: 2/7/08 at 2:13pmI don't know how it could be touring since they are still handing out the rights to it for regional theatres...
#16re: TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
Posted: 2/7/08 at 2:25pm
"I don't know how it could be touring since they are still handing out the rights to it for regional theatres..."
Huh? Many broadway and touring shows have regional theatre productions. It makes no difference.
#17re: TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
Posted: 2/7/08 at 3:34pm
I saw Topol do the pre-Broadway-revival tour in the late '80s, out here in L.A.
He "walked" through it up until "To Life!" Then suddenly he came alive in that scene and stayed alive for the rest of the show.
(I always wondered if he had REAL booze served to him in that tavern.)
But early on, his "Tradition" and "If I Were a Rich Man" were completely phoned-in and dull.
The other great reasons to see the show (back then) were the fantastic, original sets and costume designs. The Chagall/Van Gogh-like backdrops were very effective. I can still remember the colors and the impact that had. It was very impressionistic, and so "theatrically" different from the realistic settings in the film.
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#18re: TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
Posted: 9/3/08 at 2:57pmOur community theatre in Naples, Florida planned to do Fiddler this coming February, but when applying for rights last year they turned us down due to a "pending tour". We are currently trying again for Sept./Oct. of 2009. I have yet to see any schedule for the tour -- it's not on Troika's site -- and none of the tour houses in SW Florida have it on their schedule.
#19re: TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
Posted: 9/3/08 at 4:10pmThere is a casting call for the tour coming up soon.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
lightguy06222
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/3/06
#20re: TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
Posted: 9/3/08 at 4:39pm
Show is hitting up Los Angeles.
http://www.broadwayla.org/production/show.info.asp?ID=17
#21re: TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
Posted: 9/3/08 at 4:48pmHe's currently at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park in a revival of GiGi. The weather hasn't been kind to him and nor have the critics.
#22re: TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
Posted: 9/3/08 at 4:55pmThis show (with Topol) is part of the artist series coming to my hometown this year. And wow, I didn't know he was only 35 when he made the movie!
#23re: TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
Posted: 9/3/08 at 6:34pm
This tour is part of next year's Dallas Summer Musicals line-up. Most of my friends are surprised he's still performing... I'm looking forward to seeing him though. I saw the tour with Thedore Bikel several years ago.
I also saw a local production put on by a Southern Baptist church, but that's a story for another day....
#24re: TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?
Posted: 9/3/08 at 8:02pmI'm really excited. I have always enjoyed his peformance in the movie. I already have my tickets for the tour stop in Providence!
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