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.
A gay bull dyke plays the wife of a gay man.
Jeez...how gay. Look out below! Bombs away!
Maybe they should renmae it "DIDDLER on the roof!".......
Tevye in a dress with a feather boa and Golde in a leather dyke jacket! Can't wait to see how they dress the rabbi!
How about Bull-Diddler ?
Yeah, he's normal
I don't think anyone's gonna be diddling that bull any time soon........
"I just want to be loved is that so WRAWWWWNNNNNGGGG!"
If they had cast Rosie as Yenta she could have played same-sex matchmaker. Chava would have therefore violated "tradition" by marrying a man.
If she's in the title role, they'd better put some extra 2x4s in that roof.
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