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Alfred Molina: Fiddler On The Roof
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Alfred Molina's career is all over the showbiz map. He's currently Tony-nominated for his portrayal of Tevye, the meddling father in Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof. He plays himself in the indie film Coffee and Cigarettes (now in theaters). Plus, as most comic-book geeks already know, he'll raise hell as Doctor Octopus in the much-hyped Spider-Man 2. And boy, did he beat out some heavyweight Hollywood competition for that big-paycheck part! read more
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Alfred Molina is nothing if not diverse, from the likes of Frida and Coffee and Cigarettes, to his Tony-nominated Tevye in the current Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof, and now as the multi-handed villain Doc Och in Spider-Man 2. With a sense of humour intact, and not taking all of this Hollywood hoopla too seriously, Molina took a weekend off Broadway to discuss Spidey and other such topics, with PAUL FISCHER.
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Most people recognize his face, if not his name, but actor Alfred Molina has had some impressive big-screen credits, including "Frida," "The Da Vinci Code" and the villainous Doc Ock in "Spider-Man 2." He's ... been on Broadway, most recently playing Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof."
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Alfred Molina can do anything from the villain in Spider Man to Tevye in the Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof. Now he joins a stellar casr in Ron Howard's controversial Da Vinci Code, has two other films in the can and is returning to Broadway in the new year. Full of humour and upbeat, Molina talked excusively to Paul Fischer.
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In 2004, Molina returned to Broadway in the highly anticipated revival of Fiddler on the Roof. It was the first full-scale production since the long-running original closed in 1972 after an eight-year run. Molina took the lead as Tevye, a role which became indelibly associated with actor Zero Mostel. Tevye is a milkman in a nineteenth-century Jewish shtetl in Russia and seeks three well-suited husbands for his trio of daughters. Some cultural critics asserted that the new production seemed to have been scrubbed of its original Yiddish tenor, but producers noted that they had simply eliminated some of the more biased stereotypes of Jews instead. Time’s Richard Zoglin found Molina "a younger, more down-to-earth, less clownish Tevye than Zero Mostel."
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Molina's stage work has included two major Royal National Theatre productions, Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana (as Shannon) and David Mamet's Speed the Plow (as Fox). In his Broadway debut, Molina performed in Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning play Art, for which he received a Tony nomination in 1998. In 2004, Molina returned to the stage, starring as Tevye in the Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof. For his performance he once again received a Tony Award nomination, this time for Best Actor in a Musical.
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