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.

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