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Rosie Ready for "Fiddler"
Rosie O'Donnell finally gets to play matchmaker.
The 12-time Emmy winner, who never met a show tune she didn't like on her eponymous chatfest, will join five-time Tony winner Harvey Fierstein in the Broadway revival of the musical, Fiddler on the Roof, the show's producers announced on Monday.
Beginning Sept. 20 at the Minskoff Theater, O'Donnell will assume the role of Golde, the wife of Fierstein's Tevye the milkman, who's trying to uphold his family's Jewish traditions in pre-revolutionary Russia by marrying off his three oldest daughters, despite their wishes to find their own matches.
"As a 20-year friend of Rosie's, I couldn't be happier that we will finally share a stage together," Fierstein said in a statement about his new costar. "With her understanding of Fiddler's important place in theatrical history, I am positive she will uphold that tradition excitingly."
O'Donnell, 43, is no stranger to the Great White Way, having made her debut as Rizzo in Tommy Tune's 1994 revival of Grease and starred as the Cat in the Hat in 2001's Seussical.
In 2003, she produced Boy George's autobiographical musical Taboo, about the London club scene in the early '80s, and broke the cardinal rule of The Producers by underwriting the production's $10 million budget. Despite a massive online publicity push by the Queen of Nice, the show closed after three months due to poor notices and sluggish ticket sales.
O'Donnell's movie credits include A League of Their Own, Sleepless in Seattle, Another Stakeout and Beautiful Girls. On the tube side, she's done guest stints on Will and Grace, Suddenly Susan, Spin City, and Queer as Folk and most recently headlined the Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie Riding the Bus With My Sister.
But it was as a syndicated daytime gabber hosting The Rosie O'Donnell Show from 1996 to 2002 that O'Donnell made her biggest mark and honed her devotion to Broadway by featuring the singing and dancing casts of many a Tony-winning musical.
Fierstein is best known for his semi-autobiographical play and film Torch Song Trilogy and notable film appearances in such films as Mrs. Doubtfire. Before joining the cast of Fiddler, he won a Tony for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for Hairspray.
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