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.
Awake and Sing! (1972) is currently not available on any services.
Walter Matthau , Ron Rifkin , Felicia Farr , Martin Ritt , Robert Lipton , John Myhers
Norman Lloyd, Robert Hopkins
Broadway Theatre Archive
