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BRATEMAN FARBMAN/STEIN & COMPANY 15565 NORTHLAND DR. • 200 WEST, SOUTHFIELD, MI 48075 BY MICHAEL ELKIN Special to. The Jewish News For years, Avery Schreiber has _- shared his vehicle with Playing the harried cab driver who always seemed to pick up the neurotic Jack Burns as a passenger, Schreiber delighted audiences with his New York/ Jewish wit and sarcasm. Last fall, Schreiber had a different problem. His current vehicle — a horse-drawn cart — is carrying on without horse. And Schreiber, as the put-upon Tevye the dairyman in Fiddler on the Roof, was carrying on, partying with God about life's constant kicks in the pants. He was doing this at the Pocono Playhouse in Mountainhome, Pa., and at Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope. But, in a way, Schreiber has been traveling with Tevye all his life. Avery Schreiber's comedy routines "As a child, I used to listen to have run from cabbies, to my grandmother read me the commercials, to Tevye the Milk Sholom Aleichem tales in Yid- Man. dish," Schreiber says. "Then they I Forward. were published in the he is probably best known as the fell in love with Tevye long ago." Cruncher, the commercial char- But at 49, Schreiber feels he acter munching his way through may just now be understanding bags of Doritos to fame and for- the character for the first time. "I tune. Schreiber just signed for his was asked to play the part 15 eighth year with the company. years ago but I felt I didn't have "If I did the greatest King Lear, the tam," he says. "But now .. . they'd still say, 'Isn't he the guy my children just left home for col- who used to say `Cheese'?' But I lege, and I feel I have a better really can't knock it." understanding." He is not about to knock the free Indeed, Tevye is familiar with time he and his wife, Shirley, a losing his daughters. "There are psychotherapist, have, now that certain parts of the man that tear the kids are in college. "We feel me apart," Schreiber says. "When free to travel again," he said. it comes to his children, Tevye For now, his flights of fancy are tries. to hide behind tradition. I limited to anatevka. Is there any- knew guys like that — the thing that would make Schreiber neighborhood where I grew up feel like raising a toast and shout- was filled with people like that." ing L'Chaim? "Yes," he says, Schreiber understands Tevye laughing, "when my children get on other levels. "I don't see him as married." the wizard he sees himself," Schreiber adds. He sees him more as a feeling family man. "We didn't make Tevye as physical as he has been in the past," says Schreiber. "It's Cultural Unit not like Zero." Zero is Zero Mostel, Is Dedicated the late performer who originated the role. "This production had Tel Aviv (JTA) — The Golda more of a storybook feel to it." When it comes to storybook Meir Cultural Center was dedi- cated last month at a ceremony at tales, Schreiber's is one for the books. The bear-like performer the Tel Aviv Museum. The center akin to the Lincoln Center in New has moved from one success to an- York, will be built on a 35-acre other, starting out in his native plot of land next to the museum Chicago as a member of the notorious Second City comedy and will be an addition to the museum-municipal library com- group, playing there from 1960 to plex. 1965. He segued to San Francisco, The Meir Center will contain performing with the Committee separate auditoriums for opera, and then into Los Angeles and theater and musical perform- Broadway with Story Theater's ances. It will be the largest cul- production of Ovid's Metamorph- tural center in the country, ac- oses. There have been many tele- cording to the municipal plans. vision and movie roles, including Caveman and The Last Remake of Beau Geste. Construction But it was as half of the Schreiber and Burns comedy Controversy team that set his career's meter really ticking. The sharp give- Jerusalem (JTA) — The Bank and-take between the liberal Jew Leumi has asked the chief Rabbi- and the ornery New Englander nate to appoint an inspector at the gave a lot of pleasure to audiences construction site of the Ganei who watched the duo perform on Hamat Hotel in Tiberias which many television shows and in the bank is financing jointly with clubs. Though Schreiber and the Africa-Israel Co. Orthodox Burns went their separate ways Jews have complained that part of ten years ago, they remain close the structure is being built over friends; there is talk of a reunion. Jewish graves and have Not that Schreiber has to lean threatened to boycott Bank on the past to succeed. 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