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Rosie O'Donnell to return to Broadway in 'Fiddler'
Reuters ^

Posted on 08/08/2005 7:27:19 AM PDT by Millee

Television talk show host and actress Rosie O'Donnell will return to Broadway in September in a production of "Fiddler on the Roof," the show's producers said on Monday.

O'Donnell will star opposite actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein in the musical running at the Minskoff Theater in Manhattan. Fierstein who is playing Tevye, a milkman, will be joined by O'Donnell as his wife Golde, according to a statement.

"As a twenty year friend of Rosie's, I couldn't be happier that we will finally share a stage together," Fierstein said in the statement.

A previous O'Donnell Broadway venture, "Taboo," which she produced, struggled at the box office and closed in 2004 after a three-month run. The musical was about the career of 1980s British pop star Boy George, who co-starred in it, although not in the lead role.

Fierstein is best known for his award winning "Torch Song Trilogy," three one act plays exploring the lives of gay men.

For six years, O'Donnell was the host and executive producer of talk program "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" and has appeared in several TV series and movies.


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: badidea; broadway; fiddlerontheroof; rosieodonnell; thearts
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Isnt' Harvey Fierstein the guy who sounds like he gargles with battery acid?? Me thinks this will bomb.
1 posted on 08/08/2005 7:27:19 AM PDT by Millee
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To: Millee

Rosie playing some guy's wife? That is a stretch........


2 posted on 08/08/2005 7:30:15 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? GOOOOGLE your own name. Want to have fun? GOOOOGLE your neighbor's......)
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To: Millee

Yuk. No thanks.


4 posted on 08/08/2005 7:30:43 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Millee

yes, that's him.


5 posted on 08/08/2005 7:31:21 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: Baynative

Ouch !


6 posted on 08/08/2005 7:31:31 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Scratch a Liberal. Uncover a Fascist)
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To: Baynative

Let me guess, she is the Roof?


7 posted on 08/08/2005 7:31:45 AM PDT by hadaclueonce (shoot low, they are riding Shetlands.....)
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Gee, I'm really thrilled for Moose, er, I mean Rosie.


8 posted on 08/08/2005 7:31:51 AM PDT by RexBeach (Pardon me, but is that a malaise sandwich in your pocket or are you just glad to be in a funk?)
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To: Millee
This is from the Onion, right?

A gay Fiddler on the Roof? Feh.

9 posted on 08/08/2005 7:32:13 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker
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To: Millee

Must be an all-homo production of Fiddler on the Roof.


10 posted on 08/08/2005 7:32:46 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: Millee

Better reinforce that roof...oh that was so bad of me...


11 posted on 08/08/2005 7:33:05 AM PDT by Texans
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Isnt' Harvey Fierstein the guy who sounds like he gargles with battery acid?? Me thinks this will bomb.

He's about the last person I would cast as the lead in a musical. Her, too.

12 posted on 08/08/2005 7:33:31 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Millee

When my wife and I saw this on TV we immediately said in unison: "She'll play Tevye!"


13 posted on 08/08/2005 7:33:44 AM PDT by billnaz (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't you understand?)
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To: Millee

Homosexual on Broadway?

Think she'll be treated like a queen?


14 posted on 08/08/2005 7:33:44 AM PDT by Finalapproach29er (America is gradually becoming the Godless,out-of-control golden-calf scene,in "The Ten Commandments")
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If she is the fiddler it better be a strong effin roof.


15 posted on 08/08/2005 7:35:05 AM PDT by ko_kyi
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I hope she's not playing some transgender fiddler on the roof.

If so, my professional recommendation would be increasing the width depth of the ridge beam to at least a 4x12 and shoring it up with 4x4 posts no longer than 8 feet in length and terminating on reinforced concrete pads along a four foot spacing.


16 posted on 08/08/2005 7:35:20 AM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (Please stand by. We are experiencing technical difficulties.)
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Rosie O'Donnell to return to Broadway in 'Fiddler'


as what? a draft horse?


17 posted on 08/08/2005 7:36:22 AM PDT by Noumenon (Activist judges - out of touch, out of tune, but not out of reach.)
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Fierstein who is playing Tevye, a milkman, will be joined by O'Donnell as his wife Golde

Matchmaker, Matchmaker,
Plan me no plans
I'm in no rush
Maybe I've learned
Playing with matches
A guy can get burned
So,
Bring me no ring
woo me no wife
Find me no find
Catch me no catch

18 posted on 08/08/2005 7:37:50 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Lonesome's First Law: Whenever anyone says it's not about the money, it's about the money.)
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To: Millee

I think we all know what she will fiddle with...


19 posted on 08/08/2005 7:37:53 AM PDT by TommyDale
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To: hadaclueonce
Let me guess, she is the Roof?


Limiting such a multi faceted actress such as Rosie to merely playing a "roof" is an insult...


She's going to play the "whole damn house"!
20 posted on 08/08/2005 7:37:57 AM PDT by dagoofyfoot
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