Awake and Sing!

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Walter Matthau Moe Axelrod

Ron Rifkin Sam Feinschreiber

Felicia Farr Hennie

Martin Ritt Uncle Morty

Leo Fuchs Jacob