Leonard Nimoy Fiddler On The Roof

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Leonard nimoy fiddler on the roof. Raised in a tenement and acting in community theaters since age eight nimoy did not make his hollywood debut until he was 20 with a bit part in queen for a day 1951 and another as a ballplayer in the perennial rhubarb 1951. Travis hudson motel tailor. Who hasn t played tevye in fiddler on the roof. But in joel grey s exquisite revival performed in.

Tresa hughes his daughters. In hebrew sholem aleichem an alias. This excerpt is in english. His parents were ukrainian jewish immigrants.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with leonard nimoy. On his role as mendel the rabbi s son in the original broadway production of fiddler on the roof it was originally a very small part no more than a cough and a mazel tof but it got bigger. Joseph stein dir ben shaktman tevye. Fiddler on the roof is based on tevye or tevye the dairyman and his daughters a series of stories by sholem aleichem that he wrote in yiddish between 1894 and 1914 about jewish life in a village in the pale of settlement of imperial russia at the turn of the 20th century.

Leonard nimoy jewish actor most well known for his role as spock on the star trek science fiction series recalls the wonderful experience of playing tevye in fiddler on the roof in his hometown of boston. Based on the novel tevye and his daughters by sholom aleichemmusic. Leonard simon nimoy was born in boston massachusetts to dora spinner and max nimoy who owned a barbershop.