paul mann starred in fiddler on the roof movie as lazar wolf.
paul mann starred in fiddler on the roof movie as lazar wolf.
who starred in fiddler on the roof movie as lazar wolf?
paul mann
mann's own acting career was based primarily in theatre, beginning when he was sixteen. his onscreen appearances were limited to an episode of the 1950s television serial "danger" and two feature film roles. the first was that of merchant aleko sinnikoglou in "america, america" (1963) (directed by his friend elia kazan) and the last was the village butcher lazar wolf in the screen adaptation of "fiddler on the roof" (1971). he was nominated for the golden globe award for best supporting actor – motion picture for both films.
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in another broadway cares/equity fights aids benefit in 2005, the original cast of "avenue q" and the cast of the broadway revival of "fiddler on the roof" presented a 10-minute spoof of both musicals called "avenue jew." as a brief prologue, trekkie monster poorly plays the "fiddler" theme, pauses a moment, shrugs, and then eats the fiddle before running away. tevye, his wife golde, his two remaining daughters and the fiddler, having immigrated to the us, arrive on avenue jew, an area inhabited by jewish versions of the "avenue q" characters. kate monster welcomes them and the family expresses disbelief that a puppet is talking to them. tevye introduces himself and his family and finally realizes that the fiddler is with them, so he chases him away. later in the song "the puppets/the humans," the humans are fed-up with the puppets upstaging them; tevye and his family meet brian and his wife "hannukah eve" when jewish-american princeton arrives, asking "what do you do with a b.a. in yiddish?" one of tevye's daughter's, shprintze, falls in love with princeton, but tevye forbids their union even though he likes princeton. princeton only says "i know, i know. if i were a human...". rod begs the matchmaker to find him a mate, and the matchmaker, played by mrs. thistletwat, sets rod up with lazar wolf ("i'm a lonely man, tevye"). shprintze tells her father that she and princeton want to be married, and after a very brief interior monologue ("i'll be brief. on the other hand; on the other hand; tradition; ...sure, go ahead!"), tevye finally consents to princeton and shprintze's marriage; they leave the stage to prepare for their wedding, much to kate's horror - who insults shprintze as she leaves. rod and lazar wolf also wish to be wed, and ask permission from the tsar puppet, who forbids a gay marriage. ben brantley interrupts, asking who the real jewish people in the cast are, and the company concludes that "everyone's a little bit jewish"(highlighting tricia paoluccio and laura michelle kelly who aren't jewish, along with molly ephraim who is.) and "in theatre you can be whatever you wish to be" as they celebrate princeton and shprintze's wedding.
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