'Avenue Jew'--hilarious!


Here's a little background for this clip:

At around the same time that the rather short-lived Fiddler revival on Broadway was taking place, the casts of this revival and Avenue Q teamed up to present "Avenue Jew" for the World AIDS Day Benefit.

It's a sketch that's both a "sequel" to Fiddler and a mash-up of Fiddler and Avenue Q. The premise is that, arriving in America, Tevye, Golde and his two remaining daughters settle on Avenue Jew, a street in New York populated by both puppets and humans.

Have a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOq97zaBhko

That bit with the little boy following Tevye's family in the beginning was a callback to something in the revival...instead of following the family at the end of the show, the Fiddler handed his fiddle to a small boy, who took it and followed Tevye offstage.

(Favorite bit: "On the other hand, on the other hand, TRADITION!!!, sure, go ahead.")

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