The most amazing thing in seeing the national tour of Fiddler on the Roof now at the Hobby Center is when 73-year-old Topol comes out on the stage at the start to huge applause and somehow keeps going for the next three hours -- singing and dancing as he plays Tevye, the poor Jewish father trying to scratch out a living in an anti-Semitic Mother Russia. The dancing may not be quite as emphatic as it was in decades past, but the presence of Topol is beyond enormous. Mary Stout, who plays Yente, t
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If you're a woman or a theater fan or introspective or a
history buff or gay or a Kennedy buff or have a pulse -- not to mention, all of
the above -- get yourself to Stages Repertory Theatre to see Grey Gardens!!
I'm pretty out of touch with everything except work these
days, so had little clue what the celebrated play/movie/documentary was about --
some old ladies with cats, I heard -- yet agreed to go, if only to get a peek at
my not-so-distant future. Took a
