Awake and Sing!

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.

Cast

Walter Matthau

Moe Axelrod

Ron Rifkin

Sam Feinschreiber

Felicia Farr

Hennie

Martin Ritt

Uncle Morty

Leo Fuchs

Jacob

Robert Lipton

Ralph Berger

John Myhers

Schlosser

N/A

Ruth Storey

Bessie Berger