Awake and Sing!

Mar 6, 1972

1h 35m

★ 10.0

Overview

The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a better future in this 1972 production of Clifford Odets' pungent play. Personalities and politics clash as Odets' mélange of characters try to survive on pennies a day. Walter Matthau plays cynical World War I amputee Moe Axelrod, and Leo Fuchs portrays the family's iron-willed leftist grandfather.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

KCET

Broadway Theatre Archive

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Cast

Moe Axelrod

Walter Matthau

Sam Feinschreiber

Ron Rifkin

Hennie

Felicia Farr

Uncle Morty

Martin Ritt

Jacob

Leo Fuchs

Ralph Berger

Robert Lipton

Schlosser

John Myhers

Bessie Berger

Ruth Storey

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