"Fiddler on the Roof" wasn't the likeliest candidate to be a smash-hit musical. Based on Sholem Aleichem's beloved tales of Jewish life in the Pale of Settlement, the musical tells the story of a milkman named Tevye who struggles to maintain his traditions, accept his daughters' potentia...
After rock took over by the decade's end, Ames moved into stage acting. He starred in productions of "The Crucible," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "The Fantasticks," "Fiddler on the Roof," and "I Do, I Do," which generated a solo hit single for Ames in "Who Will Answer?
Papp, who died in 1991, once said of Julia: “He was always outrageous in his acting choices. He’s larger than life all the time when he’s on the stage. He doesn’t mind falling flat on his face doing something dangerous.” Julia credited Bean, a stage actor later more closely as...