Herschel Bernardi

On stage 5 productions, 17 years

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Worked with more than once8 names

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In the literature8 passages

• 208 Unfortunately when the show was revived in the late Seventies with Anthony Quinn instead of Herschel Bernardi, that concept was deleted. So strongly did the composer and lyricist want to defend their concept, that they were tempted to enjoin the show from performing. Enjoining a show is an expensive and difficult manœuvre. You must po…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
• What’s more, Prince was reuniting with book writer Joseph Stein, whose last musical had been Fiddler on the Roof. Herschel Bernardi, who’d recently had a great success playing Tevye, and Maria Karnilova, the original Golde, would be teamed to respectively play Zorba, the jack of all trades and master of anyone who hired him, and Madame Ho…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
• Zorba. Maria Karnilova and Herschel Bernardi in the “Y’assou” number. (Friedman-Abeles)ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Cast: Herschel Bernardi, Maria Karnilova, John Cunningham, Carmen Alvarez, Lorraine Serabian, James Luisiebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• The idea to turn the Nikos Kazantzakis novel Zorba the Greek into a musical was Herschel Bernardi's. He and librettist Joseph Stein approached Prince and asked him if he would produce and direct. Since Prince liked the philosophical ideas and the exciting moments of music and dance as presented in the Michael Cacoyannis film of the novel,…ebooks/Ilson, Carol/Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson.txt
• Herschel Bernardi, who also got his start in Yiddish theater with his family, took over from Adler in November 1965, and played the part hundreds of times on Broadway and on tour over the next several years. By the time he reprised the part at Lincoln Center in 1981, he guessed he had played Tevye “maybe one thousand times.”ebooks/Isenberg, Barbara/Tradition!_ The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World's Most Beloved Musical - Barbara Isenberg.txt

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