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Maite Uzal left a career as a litigator in her native Madrid to move to the United States seven years ago to pursue acting. "I decided to do what I wanted to do not expect other people to expect," she said.
It was difficult for her parents; her father thought the career she was choosing was not fit for her. Eventually, though, he came around.
Now Uzal is playing Golde, an early 20th century Jewish woman and mother in "Fiddler on the Roof," and she is more of an empathetic and understanding of her parents' feelings; her character must accept change.
The Tony-nominated Broadway Revival of "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at The Bushnell's Mortensen Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 6, and runs through Sunday, Nov. 11.
Set in the Jewish community of a pre-revolutionary Russian village, the production features a poor milkman, determined to find good husbands for his five daughters.
"Fiddler on the Roof" is the story of fathers and daughters, husbands and wives, and life, love and laughter. This clbadic musical is rich with Broadway hits including "To Life (The Chaim!)," "If I Were a Rich Man," "Sunrise Sunset," "Matchmaker, Matchmaker" and "Tradition."
The cast is led by Israeli Theater, movie and star TV, Yehezkel Lazarov in the lead role of Tevye, Golde's husband.
Like Uzal's parents, Golde and Tevye want what is best for their daughters. "Their not wanting me to be a performer from a place of love," she said, just as Golde and Tevye act out of love.
Uzal, in a telephone interview from Buffalo, New York, said she wanted to act from a young age. She studied music at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York and has had roles in such productions as "In the Heights," "Uncle Vanya," "King Lear," an adaptation of "Othello" and clbadical Spanish theater.
Jimmy Bock and Sheldon Harnick, "Fiddler on the Roof" is directed by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher, is choreographed by Israeli choreographer Hofesh Shechter and has musical direction by Ted Sperling.
The original Broadway production of "Fiddler on the Roof," which opened in 1964, was the first in over 3000 performances. The show won the 1965 Tony Award for Best Musical in addition to eight other Tony Awards that year.
The show's success, Uzal said, is its successful intertwining of a "delightful, brilliantly written score," its words that "you can feel" and its universal themes of generational struggle, love, family and to be viewed as " the other. "
Hartford hearings can expect a "rollercoaster of emotions," she said, from drama to comedy to a fresh take on choreography. "It's everything." "We really feel this happening right now."
Performances at The Bushnell are Tuesday through Thursday at 7:30 pm; Friday at 8 p.m .; Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m .; and Sunday at 1 and 6:30 p.m.
Ticket prices start at $ 23. Tickets are available at bushnell.org, by phone at 860-987-5900 or at The Bushnell Box Office, 166 Capitol Ave., Hartford.
For more information, go to bushnell.org.
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