Word: accents
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Sabath's "concentration" on the character results in a convincing portrayal of an elderly Jewish dairyman--the family's papa and the audience's hero. The ever-bending posture, the gestures, the accent, never let the audience remember the actor's true age of 21. Sabath says he uses his grandfather, who died when Sabath was only seven, as a role model for playing Tevye. Like Tevye, Sabath's grandfather was a dairymen in Russia, who came to America in the early twentieth century. Unlike Tevye, and fortunately as well, Sabath's grandfather left the Ukraine without being forced...
...accent was from him. In playing Tevye I just kept thinking how hard he worked and how tired he was. But he was always in a good mood. He was a great guy. And like Tevye he believed in upholding traditions," Sabath says...
...household, the Papa is said to "have the right as master of the house to have the final word at home," True to the tradition, Bruce G. Sabath as Pape Tevye dominates the stage. Sabath grew a beard for his part, and even managers to maintain a Yiddish accent while singing, which itself is extraordinarily strong and solid, especially in Tevye's solo, "If I Were a Rich Man," As Tevye, Sabath brings in a stellar performance as the poor milkman trying to cope with a nagging wife Golde (Ann Pellegrini), five daughters, a perennially lame horse and a changing...
Robin Williams, who seems to have absorbed something of the Russian soul while acquiring a persuasive Russian accent, is excellent. He provides all the sweetness any picture needs. One keeps hoping Mazursky and Co-Scenarist Leon Capetanos will introduce some contrasting flavors. Until Vladimir encounters some afterthought muggers, everyone he meets is unfailingly helpful and kind; he has no difficulty finding jobs, an apartment, friends of both sexes. Yet every fairy tale needs to have a wicked witch; her broomstick is always useful as a lever to pry us upright in our seats and as a goad to keep...
University officials, however, say the connector will actually add to the appearance of the site, calling it "an architectural accent for the area where the neighborhood and the University meet...