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Julia Migenes

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Actor b. 1949 On stage 1964

Julia Migenes (born March 13, 1949) is an American soprano working primarily in musical theatre repertoire. She was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan to Juan and Julia Migenes, parents of Puerto Rican and Irish descent, respectively. (Her stepfather, Costas Makis, was of Greek descent.) She is sometimes credited as Julia Migenes-Johnson. She attended The High School of Music & Art in New York City. Migenes played Tevye's second daughter, Hodel, in the original Broadway production of the long-running musical Fiddler on the Roof. She played Ciboletta in the 1973 film Eine Nacht in Venedig (re-released 2008). She also starred in the 1984 film of Carmen.

On stage 1 production

1964 Fiddler on the Roof Imperial Theatre · Original · directed by Jerome Robbins 3,242 perf.

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In the literature5 passages

  • 191 Julia Migenes has since become internationally renowned as a reigning star of the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera at Covent Garden and the Vienna Opera.ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
  • Cast: Zero Mostel, Maria Karnilova, Beatrice Arthur, Joanna Merlin, Austin Pendleton, Bert Convy, Julia Migenes, Michael Granger, Tanya Everett, Leonard Frey, Maurice Edwardsebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Tanya Everett, cast as youngest daughter Chava, made her Broadway debut in Fiddler, but Merlin and Julia Migenes, cast as middle daughter Hodel, both had prior Broadway experience. All three Broadway suitors—Pendleton, Bert Convy (Perchik), and Joe Ponazecki (Fyedka)—also had New York theatrical experience.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
  • Perchik and Hodel, in contrast, would take more work. Robbins had been complaining for a while that Bert Convy and Julia Migenes had to be pulled away from “that ‘golly–oh gee shucks’ business they’ve been indulging in.” They were playing shiny, smiley Broadway lovers instead of fervent idealists of 1905, Robbins chided, saying they remin…ebooks/Solomon, Alisa/Wonder of Wonders_ A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof - Alisa Solomon.txt
  • I regret that some artists central to the productions here declined to be interviewed—among them Jerry Bock, Gino Conforti, Bernie Gersten, and Julia Migenes—but I respect their wishes.ebooks/Solomon, Alisa/Wonder of Wonders_ A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof - Alisa Solomon.txt

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