Harvey's Girls.

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Author: Peyser, Marc

Matchmaker, matchmaker, what were you thinking? Broadway has long had a taste for zany casting moves--witness Tamyra Gray ("American Idol"), who last week stepped into the role of an Indian film director in "Bombay Dreams." But this may be the most daring stunt yet: Harvey Fierstein, late of "Hairspray," has signed to play Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof." Never mind that Fierstein sings like he has a fiddle stuck in his throat. Has Fierstein played a straight man--not to mention a father of five girls--in his entire career? Then again, if Fierstein can't make a go of it as Broadway's greatest mensch, he'd be a hoot as Tevye's wife, Golde.

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By Marc Peyser