Performer best known for being the original Captain von Trapp and playing Tevye in Fiddler in the Roof, died in his hometown of Los AngelesTheodore Bikel, the Tony-nominated actor, folk singer and original Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music on Broadway, has died in Los Angeles aged 91.Bikel, for whom Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote the musical's famous song Edelweiss, died at the UCLA medical centre on Tuesday, hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:01AM on July 22, 2015