Topol Star Of Fiddler On The Roof

Topol was born on september 9 1935 in tel aviv palestine as chaim topol.

Topol star of fiddler on the roof.

In casting the 1971 film version of fiddler on the roof director norman jewison and his production team sought an actor other than zero mostel for the lead role. He has been married to galia topol since october 23 1956. Onstage bikel made his first appearance as tevye in the musical fiddler on the roof in 1967 and performed the role more than any other actor at least 2 000 times more than chaim topol. It is based on tevye and his daughters or tevye the dairyman and other tales by sholem aleichem the story centers on tevye the father of five daughters and his attempts to maintain his jewish religious and.

Klein cast topol as galileo galilei in his version of brecht s eponymous play. Fiddler on the roof is a musical with music by jerry bock lyrics by sheldon harnick and book by joseph stein set in the pale of settlement of imperial russia in or around 1905. This cast album to the 2004 broadway revival of fiddler on the roof is as touted the most complete album of the jerry bock sheldon harnick score to date including the brand new song topsy turvy. This decision was a controversial one as mostel had made the role famous in the long running broadway musical and wanted to star in the film.

However it s hard to find a film on that global list of real importance save one. Fiddler on the roof. Topol was nominated for the 1991 tony award new york city for actor in a musical for fiddler on the roof for recreating his film role of tevye and is still performing the role in regional theater 2009. They have three children.

Fiddler on the roof 1971 cast and crew credits including actors actresses directors writers and more. Rosalind harris who plays tevye s oldest daughter tzeitel in the film played tevye s wife golde in a touring production with topol. In 1975 director joseph losey the servant mr. Topol s success in fiddler on the roof turned him into an international star.