Awake and Sing!

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Walter Matthau

Moe Axelrod

Age : 79 | Popularity : 16%

Ron Rifkin

Sam Feinschreiber

Age : 84 | Popularity : 14%

Felicia Farr

Hennie

Age : 91 | Popularity : 11%

Martin Ritt

Uncle Morty

Age : 76 | Popularity : 3%

Leo Fuchs

Jacob

Age : 83 | Popularity : 3%

Robert Lipton

Ralph Berger

Age : 80 | Popularity : 3%

John Myhers

Schlosser

Age : 70 | Popularity : 3%

Ruth Storey

Bessie Berger

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Norman Lloyd Robert Hopkins
Production	Producer	Norman Lloyd
	Casting	Jane Murray
Writing	Writer	Clifford Odets
Department	Role	Name

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