Zero Mostel
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Samuel Joel "Zero" Mostel was an American actor, comedian, and singer. Mostel received three Tony Awards and a Drama Desk Award as well as nominations for a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Glo
Mostel in Fiddler on the Roof, 1964
Mostel as Leopold Bloom in Ulysses in Nighttown in 1958
Mostel, c. 1960
Zero Mostel in 1973 on the set of the film Fore Play
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart.
Zero Mostel
…characters, including Leopold Bloom in Marjorie Barkentin's Ulysses in Nighttown, Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, Pseudolus on stage and on screen in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Max Bialystock in Mel Brooks's The Producers (1967). Mostel was a student of Don Richardson and he used an acting technique based on muscle memory…
Photograph from the original Broadway production
Graphic from the original Broadway cast album