Topol to star in new fiddler on the roof tour

[gypsy4]

Posted: 4/3/08 at 8:55pm

has anyone seen this topol is going to play Teveye in the new
Fiddler on the Roof tour.
fiddler

[dramamama611]

Posted: 4/3/08 at 9:02pm

How old must he BE by now???

(I'd go see it....really.)

[GoSmileLaughCryClap]

Posted: 4/3/08 at 9:33pm

If I Were A Rich Old Man.

[keen on kean]

Posted: 4/3/08 at 9:34pm

My heavens - he played in London in 1967!

[jake6970]

Posted: 4/3/08 at 9:41pm

According to IMDB he is 73. Wow.

[BDrischBDemented]

Posted: 4/3/08 at 10:07pm

I, um, thought he was dead. Oops.

[commasplice]

Posted: 4/3/08 at 10:16pm

If it makes you feel any better, BDrisch, so did I. We can be terrible people together.

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 4/3/08 at 10:17pm

Well Carol Channing is like 106, and she'd still do Dolly in a heartbeat

[haddaddy3]

Posted: 4/3/08 at 10:24pm

That's a little strange, but at least it's a big name. I mean, who else could they have gotten. And hey, as of '05, Cathy Rigby was still playing Peter Pan...she's certainly not young.

[roquat]

Posted: 4/3/08 at 10:30pm

"I have five...great-granddaughters!"

[nmartin]

Posted: 4/3/08 at 10:37pm

I saw his Tevye turn on B'way a long time ago at the Gershwin. It was one of the most boring performances I ever sat through. Thank God for Marcia Lewis.

[gypsy4]

Posted: 4/3/08 at 11:57pm

I wittnessed rigbys last performance of peter pan on May 28,2006 It was very emotional they did a big dedication at
the end.
Updated On: 4/4/08 at 11:57 PM

[puppetman2]

Posted: 4/4/08 at 12:08am

I saw Topol in a tour of the show about 10 years ago and he was embarrassingly bad. I would not waste time or $$ on seeing him again.

[alterego]

Posted: 4/4/08 at 12:18am

He toured this show (with local supporting cast) across Australia and New Zealand last year and yes he is old and the performance is slow but he does bring in the crowds. He also owns most of the sets and costumes which he hires back to the producers!

[DG]

Posted: 4/4/08 at 12:20am

Bikel was older than that the last time I saw him do it.

I'll stick to Topol in the movie, which I love.

[winston89]

Posted: 4/4/08 at 7:35am

My dad was laughing when he found out that A Topol was doing Fiddler on tour and B that he is still alive.

I know that they had said awhle ago that they were going to tour the revival that played at the Minskoff but that they were going to wait awhile for whatever reason. Is this tour based on the latest revival?

[nmartin]

Posted: 4/4/08 at 8:24am

Bikel was just as bad as Topol. I saw Bikel in a tour on my birthday several years ago. After those two it's a wonder I still like the show.

[jpbran]

Posted: 4/4/08 at 10:25am

He'll always be Dr. Hans Zarkov to me.

[bschneid76]

Posted: 4/4/08 at 10:35am

From "Forbidden Broadway"

Topol: If I sing it SLOWER.....

But he is superb in the film.

[jeffrey1dog]

Posted: 4/4/08 at 10:46am

And almost 40 years later, Ted Neely is still playing JC in "Jesus Christ Superstar" at age 64.


I suspect 30 years from now Pascal & Rapp will be playing the same roles in "Rent" that they've been playing for more than a decade

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 4/4/08 at 11:00am

Oy vey. Please don't send it to L.A.

[Calvin]

Posted: 4/4/08 at 11:01am

So Ted Neely's been playing Jesus longer than Jesus was actually alive.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 4/4/08 at 11:05am

From The Providence Journal:

Other shows on the PPAC roster include Fiddler on the Roof with Chaim Topol as Tevye, A Chorus Line and Spring Awakening, the Tony Award-winning rock musical about teenage self-discovery. The Color Purple, The Wizard of Oz, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and a musical version of the popular vintage television show Happy Days round out the 2008-2009 season.
The actual article from the paper

[DrTheatre]

Posted: 4/4/08 at 11:16am

I hear another recording...hehehe

[allofmylife]

Posted: 4/4/08 at 12:03pm

Topol is one of the great marketing stories of the industry. Proposing to use an obscure actor named Chaim Topol as Tevye raised a great many eyebrows until someone said "Just call him 'Topol' - lose the first name. From now on he's just Topol" and of course it worked. People thought he was some famous foreign star - like Piaf or Cantinflas, who only used one name. And these same people (millions of them) were ashamed to admit they'd never heard of him. "Topol? Oh yeah, I hear he's fantastic...."

Works every time.