TOPOL in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF usa tour?

[phantomo88]

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."

[musicalmaster703]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 7:52pm

That ended in 05

[phantomo88]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 7:56pm

They are making a new one for 08.

[musicalmaster703]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 7:56pm

SERIOUSLY? Where is it gonna be, how do you get tickets?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 7:57pm

They call him the original Tevye, but that's not quite true.

[musicalmaster703]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 7:58pm

Updated On: 9/3/08 at 07:58 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 8:02pm

So, dead doesn't mean you lose your accomplishments. Is the tour in London?

[musicalmaster703]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 8:02pm

No Usa

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 8:04pm

Does it say he was the original London Topol?

[phantomo88]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 8:12pm

I 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]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 8:28pm

I 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]

Posted: 2/6/08 at 9:13pm

Did you know he was only 35ish when he made the movie?

[Dancin Thru Life]

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]

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.

[phantomo88]

Posted: 2/7/08 at 9:12am

I emailed troika, and they said that Topol would be in it, and they are scedueling it now!

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 2/7/08 at 2:13pm

I don't know how it could be touring since they are still handing out the rights to it for regional theatres...

[phantomo88]

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.

[best12bars]

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.

[Patash]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 2:57pm

Our 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.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 4:10pm

There is a casting call for the tour coming up soon.

[lightguy06222]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 4:39pm

Show is hitting up Los Angeles.

http://www.broadwayla.org/production/show.info.asp?ID=17

[Scripps2]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 4:48pm

He'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.

[supportivemom]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 4:55pm

This 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!

[bonbon]

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....

[BroadwayMelody]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 8:02pm

I'm really excited. I have always enjoyed his peformance in the movie. I already have my tickets for the tour stop in Providence!