Awake and Sing!

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 Ruth Storey Bessie Berger

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