Nimoy also won acclaim for a series of stage roles. In 1971 he played the starring role of Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof", which toured for eight weeks. Nimoy, who had performed in the Yiddish theater as a young man, said the part was like a "homecoming" for him, explaining that his parents, like Tevye, also came from a shtetl in Russia and could relate to the play when they saw him in it. Later that year he starred as Arthur Goldman in "The Man in the Glass Booth" at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego.