Who needs a matchmaker?
Stephanie Lynne Mason and Drew Seigla — who play young lovers Hodl and Perchik in Joel Grey’s acclaimed “Fiddler on the Roof” in Yiddish — are engaged.
We’re told the two became close after she helped him learn his role in Yiddish in two weeks. He eventually proposed in Central Park on the same bench where they used to run their lines, an insider told Page Six.
“We definitely had chemistry,” Mason told The Post’s Barbara Hoffman after he popped the question. “But we kept it on the DL to be professional.”
Even so, their onstage kisses became so heated, Seigla said, that their stage manager told them to pull back.
“When I started to work with them, I told them to pretend!” director Grey told Hoffman. “They’re really well-suited for each other … and they’re cuckoo! Like newly falling-in-love-for-the first-time people are like.”
As “Fiddler” fans know, Hodl follows her idealist hubby to icy Siberia. In real life, the couple is living in Hell’s Kitchen. They’re not sure when or where they’ll tie the knot, but Grey expects to be there. “I may officiate!” he said.
Jackie Hoffman, who plays the matchmaker Yente, tweeted, “As the real person who plays the matchmaker, I had nothing to do with it cause I’m real lame.”
“Our 2 Yiddish Fiddler cast members who play lovers onstage and got engaged for real are getting a ton of press. Maybe I should get a yiddish Fiddler divorce,” she added Tuesday.
Mazel tov!
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