Judy Kuhn to Join Cast of Fiddler on the Roof
(© David Gordon)
Beginning November 22, four-time Tony nominee Judy Kuhn will join the Broadway cast of Fiddler on the Roof as family matriarch Golde, taking over the role from original cast member Jessica Hecht, who departs the production to begin preparations for Roundabout Theatre Company's spring 2017 revival of The Price. Kuhn will perform the role through Fiddler's final performance on December 31.
Kuhn recently ended her Tony-nominated run as Helen in the Tony-winning musical Fun Home, which played its final performance at Circle in the Square Theatre on September 10. Her other Broadway credits include the Roundabout Theatre Company's 1993 revival of She Loves Me, the American premieres of Chess and Les Misérables, Rags, Two Shakespearean Actors, King David, and the original production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Kuhn is also well known as the singing voice of Pocahontas in the 1995 animated film.
Featuring a book by Joseph Stein and a score by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, Fiddler on the Roof is inspired by Sholom Alecheim's stories of the milkman Tevye, who tries to hold on to "tradition" as the world around him and his family in the little village of Anatevka changes.
Directed by Tony winner Bartlett Sher, the revival production opened on December 20, 2015 at the Broadway Theatre, earning three Tony nominations, including Best Revival of a Musical.
The current cast stars six-time Tony nominee Danny Burstein as Tevye and Tony nominee Jessica Hecht as Golde, along with Adam Dannheisser (Lazar Wolf), Adam Kantor (Motel), Karl Kenzler (Constable), Alix Korey (Yente), Samantha Massell (Hodel), Melanie Moore (Chava), George Psomas (Avram), Ben Rappaport (Perchik), Nick Rehberger (Fyedka), and Alexandra Silber (Tzeitel).
