Zero Mostel

On stage 12 productions, 34 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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Also credited on1 work

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

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In the literature8 passages

• I only wish I could put on this page what Zero Mostel did with that name. When his character started to get the hots for Florence, he turned that ordinary name into a three-act play. The sounds he made were astonishing. His voice took the elevator down into his very bowels. “FLO-RENCE! FL-OO-REEN-CE! F-L-O-R-E-N-C-E!” He sounded like a rh…ebooks/Burnett, Carol/This Time Together - Carol Burnett.txt
• Time for Best Actor in a Musical. Diahann Carroll reads the nominees and then announces Zero Mostel as the winner for Funny Thing. Soon after, co-hosts Abe Burrows and Robert Morse—victors last season for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying —announce the Best Musical winner. Once again, Funny Thing is named and Stop the World…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• Actually, the person who expected to be this season’s MVP was Zero Mostel, who originated the role of Tevye the milkman in Fiddler on the Roof.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• And yet he didn’t say no. Perhaps, in his own way, Zero Mostel was the season’s MVP for approving Jerome Robbins as his director inebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• TONY WALTON: Jerome Robbins had named names during the McCarthy era. Jack Gilford’s wife, Madeline, was one. Zero Mostel was another.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• CHARLES DURNING: Zero Mostel didn’t work for ten years. He told me he went from making a thousand to a hundred dollars a week. “What kind of secrets was I giving away,” he’d ask, “acting secrets?”ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt

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