Paul Michael Glaser, best known for playing the role of Starsky in the hit 1970s show Starsky and Hutch, will play the lead role of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof at The Lowry in Salford later this month.
This new production is directed and choreographed by Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood.
Glaser was actually in the classic 1971 film version (in the role of student and Bolshevik revolutionary Perchik who falls in love with Tevye’s second daughter).
He has also appeared in more than 50 roles in regional, repertory, off-Broadway and Broadway theatre in the US.
Fiddler on the Roof remains one of the most popular of all stage musicals and is filled with instantly recognisable songs including "If I Were a Rich Man", "Matchmaker Matchmaker", "Sunrise Sunset", "To Life", "Tradition" and many more.
Tevye, the local milkman in his village of Anatevka, has always stuck by his traditions but suddenly his headstrong daughters decide that they want to marry for love rather than accept whatever Yente the Matchmaker comes up with.