dence, and it became a
play as well as in tour
Left to right:
marvelous challenge to
companies traveling as
Eileen Tepper portrays
convey personalities.
far as Japan and Finland. eldest daughter Tzeitel,
"As an actor, I became
"My parents were
who despite an arranged
an observer and listener,
Orthodox, and being in
marriage, wills her way
this play means a great
to marry Motel the tailor. and every time I play
Yenta, I find something
deal to me as a Jew," says
Karen Katz plays
new about her. I think
Masters. The actor playing
Tevye youngest
Yenta is really lonely. I
the rabbi also has worked
daughter, Sprintze.
won't play for the loneli-
as a standup comedian
Miriam
Babin
brings
ness, but I will feel it."
and holds theater degrees
her talents to the role
Performing is some-
from the College of
of Yenta the matchmaker.
what of a tradition in
William and Mary and
Babin's family. Her father
New York University.
was a rabbi and cantor. Her sister is
Miriam Babin, who has portrayed
opera singer Regina Sarfaty, and her
Yenta the matchmaker several times,
son is actor-singer Michael Babin.
launched her career very differently by
"The experience of touring is
trying her skills on community stages.
She started in theater after going through remarkable to me,' says Babin, who
has been in regional theater produc-
marriage, child rearing and divorce.
tions of Conversations With My Father
"Acting was my education, and I've
and Cabaret. "I really get to know the
only taken classes recently," says
Babin. "Acting gave me a lot of confi-
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"It says many things
about Jewish culture
and life, as interpreted
by Sholem Aleichem
and Joe Stein."
Stein, who wrote
the story for both
stage and screen, said
Fiddler talks of uni-
versal themes. "It's a
story about parents
and children, a story
about struggling in a
strange world, conflict
of cultures, immigrants," he said.
Universal or not, the road to
Broadway was bumpy. "Every produc-
er in town turned it down; they
thought it was too ethnic," Stein
recalled. "One said, 'I like it, but what
will I do for an audience once I run
out of Hadassah benefits?' It was an
unusual musical — it had a Jewish
theme and a serious story line. It had
everything going against it."
Eventually the powerhouse theater
team of Hal Prince and Jerome
Robbins got involved, and they
brought the play to Broadway.
Audiences almost immediately extend-
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