haines his way

11/05/2002:
"CARRIE ME BACK TO BRIAN DE PALMA"

Well, dear readers, I am hopping mad. Why am I hopping mad you might ask and I might tell you because who am I to keep such a thing from you? I am hopping mad because last night I watched this television movie of Mr. Stephen King’s Carrie. I had to restrain myself, dear readers, from throwing my shoe at the television. The obvious question, of course, is why remake Carrie? There is, unfortunately, no obvious answer that the people who remade it could possibly offer. I mean, it was so bad on every level I just sat there and started yelling. Who are these people who are allowed to make these things? This is why I never watch television and frankly I should have known better. The “director”, David Carson, should be tossed out of the DGA for his “work”. It was embarrassingly directed – full of all that five-year-old “hip” television style – from tilted cameras with no purpose, to endless shakycam shots with no purpose – it was just horrendous and made Mr. de Palma, not one of my favorite directors, seem like one of the greats. I know I’m being harsh, but this sort of thing just frosts me. It frosts me, do you hear, and now I’m frosted. The woman who played Carrie’s mother was so ordinary (I’m afraid I don’t know who it was – I’m sure it’s someone on some series, which is usually how they cast these stupid things), so boring – I mean, this is one of the great characters, how can you be boring? The girl playing Carrie was okay, but was working way too hard at it (Sissy Spacek, on the other hand, inhabited the character, was the character – as did the brilliant Piper Laurie as her mother). The rest of the cast was simply annoying – Sue Snell was a Debbie Allen clone, and the rest of the classmates were just awful (especially that over-directed girl who ate the donut while being interviewed by David Keith). Some of them, I’m sure, are decent actors, but with a “director” like this, who has a chance? The music was a lesson in how not to score a film – all jangly inappropriate music that just wanted to call attention to itself rather than actually serve the story. There was no style, no form, no point of view, no nothing. Can you tell I am hopping mad? Can you tell I am frosted? And I am not finished. I can’t be stopped now. And I am telling you I am not going. But first, I’ll start a new paragraph, because this here paragraph is becoming unseemly and way too long.
The prom scene was a perfect example of everything that was wrong with the television version. On TV, Carrie is so inner at the prom, she just never blooms. Just watch Sissy Spacek in the same sequence – watch her just light up and blossom – it’s just magical. Of course, she had the super-charming William Katt to play opposite instead of the too-old stick playing Tommy Ross in this new version. And then the “director” had the nerve to start ripping off de Palma shots. And the ending? We don’t get de Palma and Lawrence Cohen’s brilliant shock ending, oh, no, we don’t get that. We do get a surprise ending and the surprise is that this whole remake is a fershluganah pilot for a Carrie series. Yes, Virginia, Carrie lives and is on her way to Florida. Need I say more? Need I go on? Is it any wonder I am hopping mad? .
Has anyone noticed that silly-looking period just sitting there all by its lonesome? Well, as you may or may not have heard, I am hopping mad and I am frosted, so let’s just all click on the Unseemly Button below and be done with it.

I didn’t mean to go on at such length about something as silly as the TV movie remake of Carrie, but when I see something that inept it just frosts me, frankly, or even gregly. And now I’ve wasted a whole day’s notes talking about the pilot for Carrie Goes to Florida.
I actually got to come in a bit late to work yesterday, because David Wechter had to do some stuff with the editor I’m working with – so, I got my handy-dandy automobile washed. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too? Did you know that the word too spelled backwards is oot? My handy-dandy automobile hadn’t been washed in close to three months – it looks sparklingly clean now. Of course, they are now predicting rain – it hasn’t rained in a ‘coon’s age, but now that I’ve had my handy-dandy car washed, soon it’s gonna rain – oh, a Schmidt and Jones reference. What the hell am I talking about?
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must drive in my sparklingly clean automobile and then work all the live-long day. Yesterday, I had very few posts to keep me entertained (the posts that were there were lively and sparkling, though) – it was as if everyone were on vacation. Hopefully, today there will be more posts to keep me entertained, because I must be entertained and that is all there is to it. I do hope that the makers of Carrie Goes to Florida do some more remakes soon. I feel they should remake Romeo and Juliet next and I feel that Juliet should live and move to Joliet – ah, a Lost in Boston IV reference (and an obscure one at that) – then it can be a series, Juliet Goes to Joliet. Today’s topic of discussion: Wrong casting choices again – let’s do our own revival of Fiddler on the Roof, and cast the most wrong people from the world of stage or screen or television. Cast away, my pretties.

Replies: 52 Unseemly Comments

I keep popping in and out. I thought I was done with the heavy workload but I now have two projects to finish in 4 and a half weeks so I'm swamped again. But then I'll really be done and I won't be at work for the entire month of December! Yeah! Do the Hora! Wear Pointy Hats! Eat Cheese and Ham! And on that kosher note, I can't pass up the chance at a bad Fiddler. I won't cast the entire show, just most of the roles
Teyve is Pat Boone
Golde is Tammy Faye Baker
Tzeitel is Posh Spice
Hodel is Sporty Spice
Chava is Scary Spice
Shprintze is Ginger Spice
Motel is Jm J. Bullock
Perchick is Eminem (sp)
Yenta is Raquel Welch
Lazar Wolfe is Emeril Lagasse
Fruma-Sarah is Jennifer Aniston
Grandma Tzeitel is Celine Dion
That's it. I'll lurk back later to see others.
Posted by Ben @ 11/05/2002 07:57 AM PST

I saw "Carrie" on NBC last night. I'm not hopping mad. I'm just sad. I'm sad that Stephen King "allowed" them to make this travesty of his novella. I'm sad that he allowed the framing device of the detective interviewing the "survivors" -- in the original movie, there WERE no survivors. If I recall the novella correctly, the movie was close to dead-on with the book except the ending.
The actress who played Sue Snell was an Amy Irving lookalike. That frosted me. Why not cast a Sue Snell on the merits of the actress -- why find an Amy Irving clone? This actress is a beautiful black woman and should not have been done up, hair and all, to remind us all of Amy Irving. The actor who played Tommy Ross did a fair job, except William Kaat's original made us believe he "was" a gentleman in all respects and you believed he was not only having a good time, but falling for Carrie who, as BK pointed out rather "pointedly", BLOSSOMED before our eyes. In the movie, you truly believed she dazzled all her classmates just as we, the audience, were dazzled. Even though they stuffed the ballot boxes in the movie, you believed they'd have won -- and did win -- on their own merits. Here, in the NBC version, the discarded ballots are found and we are told a different couple won.
IT SUCKED!!!!!!!!!
But I'm not frosted. I'm just sad. And I'm sick. Did I mention I'm sickie poo? I am home today -- on this fershluganah voting day -- with a head cold that is YUCK and ICK and UGH. Oh, I'll vote. You betcha I'm gonna vote. You may hear of some California candidate who got only ONE vote...and that ONE vote will have been MY vote. You betcha by golly wow.
I'll have to think of the worst possible casting for a favorite show.
Until later....
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 11/05/2002 08:16 AM PST

Oh, P.S.
Did anyone who saw "Carrie" on NBC think that the leading actress looked a bit like Leslie Ann Warren, only with a migraine?
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 11/05/2002 08:18 AM PST

Teyve is Michael Douglas
Golde is Catherine Zeta Jones-Douglas
Tzeitel is Britney Spears
Hodel is Avril Levigne
Chava is Andy Dick
Shprintze is Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen
Motel is Norm McDonald
Perchick is Chris Rock
Yenta is COMPLETELY DONE AS CGI (if this is a movie) if not - Cameron Diaz
Lazar Wolfe is The Crocodile Hunter
Fruma-Sarah is Calista Flockhart
Grandma Tzeitel is Barbara Bush
Posted by Craig @ 11/05/2002 08:25 AM PST

Oh.. and as Chava's Husband: Yakov Smirnof
Posted by Craig @ 11/05/2002 08:46 AM PST

"Carrie Goes to Florida," where she finds employment at Cape Canaveral. "Let's light this candle!!!" WHOOMPH!!!!
Posted by S. Woody White @ 11/05/2002 08:53 AM PST

To Mark Rothman: Vis a vis our Janis Hansen topic the other night on the chat, could you drop me an email and I can forward a link to a picture of Sergio's Janis Hansen so that you could hopefully clear up if it's the same one who did "Odd Couple."
Re: Fiddler--Lea Delaria IS Tevye.
Posted by JMK @ 11/05/2002 09:11 AM PST

I would suggest Eartha Kitt as Grandma Tzeitel, but I have the rather horrible feeling she'd be good.
Posted by David Cleaver @ 11/05/2002 09:34 AM PST

The original "Carrie" was one of the few films of its ilk that I even bothered to see and I liked it so much that I refused to watch the revisal. The problem is, if people keep watching these awful remakes (and going to movies like the recent remakes of "Charade" and "Mr. Deeds Goes To Town"), then they will keep making them. I'll bet "Carrie" was a ratings blockbuster... it had to be if even BK who rarely watches television watched it. Let's face it: when "Jackass The Movie" is the top grossing film in the week it is released, you know the current taste of the American public.
Regarding FIDDLER, no choice on this board can be as wrong as the actor who is probably going to be doing it on television (unless Bock and Harnick can veto the casting). I was told this in complete confidence so I can't even name him here. Let's just say it is a very talented performer with Broadway,television and movie credits who is about as Gentile as the come and is all wrong for Tevye.
Posted by William E.Lurie @ 11/05/2002 10:15 AM PST

Greetings, Hainsies and Kimlets!
I must confess, I have been errant and truant to the nth degree. Perhaps even to the oth, pth, qth degrees. Line up and take a number to deliver my well deserved bitch slapping.
I can't resist a game of Worst Cast Scenario, though, so I am returned to this greatest of all web sites in all of Internetdom.
Here are my suggestions for our devilishly delightful cast of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF:
Tevye--Dom DeLuise
Golde--Pia Zadora
Tzeitel--Jennifer Lopez
Hodel--Margaret Cho
Chava--Brandy
Shprintze--Charlotte Church
Motel--Bruce Vilanch
Perchick--John Goodman
Yenta--Dame Edna
Lazar Wolfe--David Hyde Pierce
Frumah-Sarah--Maggie Smith
Grandma Tzeitel--Katharine Hepburn
Posted by Jay @ 11/05/2002 10:39 AM PST

i see dead people on Jay's list LOL
Actually Jay.. I think the Dame WOULD be excellent casting for Yenta...
So, if there was a celebrity deathmatch between the characters in Fiddler on the Roof and the characters in Ragtime, who would win?
What about Dance of the Vampires Vs. Jekyll and Hyde?
What about Miss Saigon vs. Les Miserables
How about Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Vs. Oklahoma?
Posted by Craig @ 11/05/2002 10:52 AM PST

Oh no! I know the rule about living people only for our game of dream--I mean nightmare--casting. Who on my list has gone on to the big box office in the sky?
Posted by Jay @ 11/05/2002 10:58 AM PST

William E. Lurie wrote:
"Let's face it: when "Jackass The Movie" is the top grossing film in the week it is released, you know the current taste of the American public." [italics added]
Well, that says it, now doesn't it?
All your casts are so marvelous, although I really think Tevye should be Tim Currie, seeing as how he is trying to do Sebastian Cabot on TV now--and no, I have not watched it.
But as for Grandma Tzeitel, I really must come to the defense of my old friend Duane Bodin. You see, Duane was in the chorus of the OBC of Fiddler, and after some weeks the part of Grandma Tseitel became open and there were auditions.
So, on a lark, Duane tried out and got the part. He played it for a good long time and played it in the revival with Zero in the seventies. And, of course, Duane is full of delightful stories about Bea Arthur and Zero and Bette Midler.
Nanny case, Grandma Tzeitel should be played by a man. How about Harvey Fierstein?
Speaking of weird casting, how about Bette Midler as Tzeitel? Naw! Never happen!
Okay, I'm off to put red marks all over students' papers and try my darndest to lower all their grades. We professors weild such evil power! Mwahaha!
Posted by William F. Orr @ 11/05/2002 11:00 AM PST

To reiterate:
"Let's face it: when "Jackass The Movie" is the top grossing film in the week it is released, you know the current taste of the American public." [italics added]
Okay, now they've been added.
Posted by William F. Orr @ 11/05/2002 11:03 AM PST

Jay-
Now I am blushing.. because I was wrong. For some reason I had thought Katherine had left us. My bad.
Of course.. if you are talking dead careers - Pia...
Posted by Craig @ 11/05/2002 11:06 AM PST

Who on Jay's list is actually dead? I know several of the people named have careers that are dead, but unless I missed news of someone passing, I think they are all among the living.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 11/05/2002 11:06 AM PST

Tevye: Regis Philbin
Golde: Kelly Ripa
Tseitel: Rebecca Luker
Hodel: Kristin Chenoweth
Chava: Britney Spears
Motel: David Hyde Pierce
Perchik: James van der Beek
Yente: Kathie Lee Gifford
Grandma Tseitel: Julie Andrews
Fruma Sarah: Carol Channing
Posted by Philip Crosby @ 11/05/2002 11:25 AM PST

Dear reader William E. Lurie: Thank you for coming to my defense. I'd be mortified (forgive the pun) had I broken a fundamental rule of this exercise!
Dear reader Craig: No harm done. You are forgiven.
Regarding Pia Zadora: In Bea Arthur's one woman show, besides reciting a lamb recipe, she mentions that Miss Zadora actually played Shprintze on Broadway in FIDDLER. (Not sure if she was part of the original cast or not.) Perhaps Dear reader William F. Orr's friend Duane Bodin has "delightful" stories about her, too!
Posted by Jay @ 11/05/2002 11:27 AM PST

Whoever the "gentile" is who will be portraying Tevye on a made-for-TV film of "Fiddler...," can he possibly be as BAD as the guy who played Emil on the made-for-TV "South Pacific"???
WOOF!
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 11/05/2002 11:29 AM PST

Perhaps instead of remaking Carrie - I have an idea. Get Betty Buckley and Linzi Hateley and do a MUSICAL!
As for FIDDLER - let FOX have a series AMERICAN FIDDLER and we can see contestants from Community Theatre productions in every state and the AUDIENCE can cast the show! The public taste is NEVER wrong....oh JACKASS THE MOVIE....oh...
nevermind.
Posted by Jrand55 @ 11/05/2002 11:35 AM PST

BRUCE -
OK.. it just hit me... What you are REALLY saying about the TV Movie that aired last night is that the director comitted...
(remember.. no groans here)
HAREY CARRIE!
Posted by Craig @ 11/05/2002 12:23 PM PST

in regards to whether "Carrie" was a blockbuster last night....overnight ratings show that, in the 8 pm hour, it finished 4th and in the 9 and 10 o'clock hours it finished 3rd...so much for it being a blockbuster....maybe they'll now learn not to remake movies like this
Posted by Donald @ 11/05/2002 12:45 PM PST

My first thought for Fiddler was to have the daughters played by Whitney,Mariah and Britney. Michael Crawford as Tevye and it's hard to past Rosie O'D ad Golda. Maybe Bette Midler as the Grandmother and John Travolta as Motel. Guy Haines would make an interesting Perchick
Posted by Tom from OZ @ 11/05/2002 01:04 PM PST

Tevye: Michael Crawford
Golde: Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Tzeitel: Britney Spears
Hodel: Christina Aguilera
Chava: Shakira
Motel: Aaron Carter
Perchik: Willam Defoe
Yente: Sheryl Lee Ralph
Grandma Tzeitel: Sally Struthers
Fruma Sara: Sarah Brightman
Lazar Wolfe: Richard Simmons
Posted by Jason @ 11/05/2002 01:05 PM PST

Kill the pig...pig...pig!
Posted by An excerpt from CARRIE: THE MUSICAL @ 11/05/2002 01:07 PM PST

Turn around...every now and then I get a little bit lonely and I don't know what to do...(turn around)...
Posted by An excerpt from THE DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES @ 11/05/2002 01:07 PM PST

I believe I read who was going to play Tevye in a TV version and I therefore wasn't told this in complete confidence so I can even name him.
It is Tony Shalhoub who is currently the star of Monk and has acted in Wings, Spy Kids 2, both Men in Black Films, That Championship Season, Longtime Companion, Barton Fink among other films and on Broadway in Conversations With My Father, The Heidi Chronicles and The Female Odd Couple.
Very accomplished at playing drama and comedy. Don't know if he can sing but he is a very versitile character actor and would like to see him do it on stage first.
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 11/05/2002 01:08 PM PST

OMG I saw Sally Struthers do Grandma Tzeitel only the program said she was playing Miss Lynch in GREASE.
Posted by Jrand55 @ 11/05/2002 01:11 PM PST

I used to poke fun at Sally Struthers, too, but now that I have seen her as Evangeline Harcourt in the Reprise! production of ANYTHING GOES and as Agnes Gooch in the Musical Theatre West (Long Beach, CA) production of MAME, I have to admit that I now hold some degree of respect for her as a comic actress.
Posted by Jay @ 11/05/2002 01:18 PM PST

But...but....Tony Shalhoub is Lebanese, isn't he???
Not Jewish???
I know he's an actor....but...isn't this rather like casting Omar Sharif???
Or has that been done, as well?
Why not:
Tevye: Alec Baldwin
Golde: Penelope Cruz
Tseitel: Kelly Clarkson
Hodel: Britney
Chava: Christina Aguilera
Motel: Tom Cruise
Yente: Rosie O'Donnell
Fruma Sara: Joy Behar
Grandma Tseitel: Barbara Walters
Lazar Wolf: Martin Short or Paulie Shore
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 11/05/2002 01:27 PM PST

Fiddler on the Goof:
Tevye the Dairyman: Elaine Stritch
Golde, Tevye’s wife: Cady Huffman
Tzeitel, Tevye’s daughter: Nathan Lane
Hodel, Tevye’s daughter: Harvey Fierstein
Chava, Tevye’s daughter: Ernie Sabella
Bielke, Tevye’s daughter: Emily Skinner
Shprintze, Tevye’s daughter: Alice Ripley
Yente the Matchmaker: Adam Pascal
Motel the Tailor: Julie Newmar
Perchik the Student: Marian Seldes
Lazar Wolf the Butcher: Alicia Silverstone
Grandma Tzeitel: Burke Moses
Fruma-Sarah: Jennifer Holliday
Fyedka: Lonny Price
Sasha: Sasha Charnin
Nachum the Beggar: Marla Maples
The Fiddler on the roof: Nell Carter
I saw a few minutes of Carrie. Actually, I saw more than I could take. She looked a little like the much-older Lesley Ann Warren—after dinner— I mean a trip to the—
Posted by freedunit @ 11/05/2002 01:43 PM PST

Tony Shalaboub not the actor who they were trying to sign as of last week. I might add that although he has done a lot of work over the last 30 years hi is not what one would consider a major draw.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 11/05/2002 01:53 PM PST

If Sandra Bernhard had married Holly Hunter and conceived a child, the result would have been last night's Carrie White.
Even USA TODAY, you know, McPaper, said that they shoulda just shown the musical....
And while Miss Clarkson has been a reliable character actress before (no, BK, she's not on a series) in such films as THE GREEN MILE, HIGH ART, LONDON SUITE and THE PLEDGE, the nuances of Mrs. White totally escaped her. Maybe when she was working with Betty Buckley on SIMPLY IRRESISTABLE, Sarah Michelle Gellar slayed all of Miss Clarkson's demons.
Posted by td @ 11/05/2002 02:00 PM PST

Well, if Patricia Clarkson is not on a series then she seriously pulled the wool over someone's eyes. Or perhaps, Mr. David Carson, the "director" asked her to play it as boringly as two day old bologna.
I am enjoying your casting suggestions for the next revival of Fiddler and have submitted them to the Weisslers. However, while Guy Haines was very touched that someone suggested him to play Motel, Mr. Haines asked me to inform everyone that he only plays Hotels not Motels. Earlier in his career he might have played a Motel but not now.
By the way (BTW, in Internet lingo) I am very jiggy with the number of posts thus far - when in a pinch, Hainsies/Kimlets all come through with lively posts so that I can be entertained whilst on breaks here at work. Keep posting, you crazy people.
Posted by bk @ 11/05/2002 02:06 PM PST

Tevye- Dustin Diamond
Golde- Lisa Welchel
Tzeitel- Liliane Montevecchi
Hodel- Ruth Buzzi (I love me some Ruth)
Chava(leh)- Anjelica Huston
Bielke- That Pepsi Girl
Shprintze- A Baby Gerbil
Motel- Rip Taylor
Perchik- Joe Don Baker
Yente- Mia Farrow
Lazar Wolf- Tommy Tune
Fyedka- Jake Busey
Fruma Sarah- Jennifer Tilley
Sasha- Heath Ledger
Mendel- Antonio Sabato Jr.
Rabbi- Andrea Bocelli
Posted by Dallas @ 11/05/2002 03:33 PM PST

just to clear up some confusion as to the TV Tevye.....the actor who is about to be signed for the TV movie remake is Victor Garber (I have no problem discussing this since it has now been posted on other theatre websites like PLaybill.com).....Tony Shaloub has been mentioned (Mandelbaum, I think is the source) to play Tevye in a stage revival of the show; so, both Garber and Shaloub are correct answers (well, sort of)
Posted by Donald @ 11/05/2002 03:39 PM PST

Here's another version of the show: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF...or HOW GOLDA GOT HER GROOVE BACK
Tevye: James Earl Jones
Golda: Angela Bassett
Tzeitel: Brandy
Chava: Beyonce Knowles
Hodel: Lil' Kim
Motel: Coolio
Perchik: Jesse Jackson
Yente: Oprah Winfrey
Fruma Sara: Whitney Houston (cause let's face it...she's scary in REAL life)
Grandma Tzeitel: Maya Angelou
Lazar Wolfe: OJ Simpson
Posted by Jason @ 11/05/2002 04:03 PM PST

Yes, an all-Black version of Fiddler - call it Fiddler on the 'hood. I like it. Where is David Merrick when you need him?
Posted by bk @ 11/05/2002 04:17 PM PST

Thank you Donald for mentioning Victor Garber. Since you swore me to silence I wouldn't share that tidbit on line. As wrong as he is for the role, we must remember he started his career in another Jewish role: Jesus in
GODSPELL, first in the Toronto production with such soon-to-be stars as Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Gilda Radner and Martin Short and then in the film. As all good Hainsies and Kimlets know, this role was originally played by Stephen Nathan of "First Nudie Musical" fame. But Garber is too much of a WASP to play Tevye, and despite his role in "Alias", he's not the kind of name that will draw viewers.
Jay--- When Sally Struthers played Agnes Gooch did they change any lines to explain it was a menopause baby?
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 11/05/2002 04:20 PM PST

Dear Reader William E. Lurie---
No, no changes to the book. But in order to make Gooch's pregnancy obvious on Miss Struthers', um, zaftig figure, my guess is that when that baby is born it's going to be a twenty pounder.
Posted by Jay @ 11/05/2002 04:24 PM PST

OK Jason - that's quite a sick (read: funny) sense of humor casting OJ as the town butcher...
I nearly choked on my ham chunk...
(that almost sounds dirty too!)
Posted by Craig @ 11/05/2002 04:34 PM PST

Does anyone know how well Garber's voice is holding up these days?
He's very visible on TV these days.
I have often wondered why he hasn't had more singing roles in his career.
If we're going to be completely Looney Tunes, why not build a "Fiddler on the Roof" cast around a Tevye only Dustin Hoffman could create!!!
Meryl Streep could play Golde! Perhaps we could get Teri Garr and Jessica Lange to take older character roles.
Bill Murray should also be in the cast. He'd make a perfect Lazar Wolf! Or do you think Charles Durning would rather play that part. Murray could then be the rabbi or the local commissar.
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 11/05/2002 04:38 PM PST

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (the new cast):
TEVYE: Robert Redford
YENTA: Gloria Stuart
PERCHICK: Matt Damon
CHAVA: Charlotte Church
LAZAR WOLF: Christopher Walken
GOLDE: Kim Basinger
TZEITEL: Gwyneth Paltrow
HODEL: Mandy Moore
MOTEL: Eminem
FYEDKA: Ben Affleck
GRANDMA TZEITEL: Barbara Cook
FRUMA-SARAH: Betty Buckley
CONSTABLE: Harvey Keitel
Posted by td @ 11/05/2002 04:55 PM PST

Here's a twist on the casting for Fiddler...
Tevye- Stephen Sondheim
Golde- Betty Comden
Tzeitel- Jeanine Tesori
Hodel- Nan Knighton
Chava - Mary Rodgers
Motel- Jason Robert Brown
Perchik- Laurence O'Keefe
Yente- Mary Murfitt
Lazar Wolf- Mel Brooks
Fyedka- Marc Shaiman
Fruma Sarah- Carol Hall
Sasha- Andrew Lippa
Mendel- Greg Kotis
Rabbi- Doug Bernstein
Posted by Craig @ 11/05/2002 05:01 PM PST

Dear readers,
There seems to have been some problems with the HHW domain registrar leading to the (hopefully) very temporary loss of most traffic to the site. We've done what we need to do to get things back up, now we wait for it to do so...
And, as always...
You're all crazy!
Mr. Mark Bakalor
Posted by Mr. Mark Bakalor @ 11/05/2002 06:16 PM PST

Problems?
With the domain registrar????
Loss of most traffic to the site??????
Damn them all to hell!
Bitch-slaps all around!!!!!
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 11/05/2002 06:21 PM PST

Three hours LATER? And not one post since the last time I posted?
HELLO????
ANYBODY THERE?????
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 11/05/2002 09:19 PM PST

Well, after trying and trying, I finally got the site to come up. WHEW! My day would not have been complete without my daily dose of HainesHisWay.com.
As for FIDDLER casting...
I can't really come up with a complete cast, but I do remember one production I saw where Lazar Wolf was played by a woman! Very, very strange indeed.
*Had first rehearsal and read-through of SOUTH PACIFIC today at Arena Stage. Great cast led by Kate Baldwin and Richard White. And they even got the Bloody Mary from the Glenn Close TV movie, Lori Tan Chinn. It's gonna be a great run.
Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 11/05/2002 09:25 PM PST

Well, after trying and trying, I finally got the site to come up. WHEW! My day would not have been complete without my daily dose of HainesHisWay.com.
As for FIDDLER casting...
I can't really come up with a complete cast, but I do remember one production I saw where Lazar Wolf was played by a woman! Very, very strange indeed.
*Had first rehearsal and read-through of SOUTH PACIFIC today at Arena Stage. Great cast led by Kate Baldwin and Richard White. And they even got the Bloody Mary from the Glenn Close TV movie, Lori Tan Chinn. It's gonna be a great run.
Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 11/05/2002 09:25 PM PST

Hmmm.. After trying and trying I guess I posted twice..
Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 11/05/2002 09:30 PM PST

Hmmm.. after trying and trying, I'm glad you finally broke through. Twice is nice, too!
: )
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 11/05/2002 10:22 PM PST

What a great day for fiddling. The worry is that a real cast may be even worse.
It would be be enough to turn around more than bright eyes. More than just a mere total eclipse of the heart. Are you sure you don't want a copy of the Promo "Vampire" for your Birthday Jason. Maybe just Bonnie Tyler singing Total Eclipse for 76 minutes.
Posted by Tom from OZ @ 11/05/2002 10:31 PM PST

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