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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...
Relying on personal experience, Sabath adds that he purposely steered his portrayal of Tevye away from Zero Mostel's acclaimed rendition of the character. "I think that Mostel perhaps did a little too much comedy with Tevye. He played him too much like a clown so that the audience was laughing at him rather than with him. I try to play the character with a little more pathos...
...LAST TERM at Harvard, when Sabath is not on stage in Fiddler, or T.F.ing a course in information theory, he sings bass with the five-year-old Din and Tonics, one of two all-male a capella groups on campus. The Dins perform about 60 concerts a year and have traveled to Bermuda three times. Sabath considers singing with the Dins "the greatest part of my Harvard experience," providing him with an outlet for his love of the stage...
Like most who love performing Sabath has toyed with the idea of becoming a professional actor. "But doing a show over and over again--it gets numbing. My longest run was eight shows. After 400 it becomes a job. After graduating Sabath plans to live in Manhattan and work at a computer firm. He doesn't foresee, however, totally giving up performing. Sabath plans to form an a capella quartet with some fellow graduates, the new group will reintroduce New York to the tunes of the forties...