{"id":1148,"date":"2023-08-02T14:50:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T14:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stageraw.com\/remake\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2023-08-25T14:56:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T14:56:14","slug":"tevye-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stageraw.com\/remake\/tevye-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Tevye In New York!"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n
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Tevye In New York!<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Reviewed by Mart\u00edn Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong>
\nDugan\u2019s Backyard Playhouse<\/em><\/strong>
\nThrough August 6<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

RECOMMENDED<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Between 1895 and 1914, Sholem Aleichem, the pen name of author Solomon Rabinovich, wrote tales in Yiddish about Tevye, the devout Jewish dairyman, his family, and their travails in their small village in the Ukraine, then part of Imperial Russia. For those who only know Tevye from\u00a0Fiddler on the Roof<\/em>, actor\/writer Tom Dugan\u2019s adaptation of Aleichem\u2019s stories, on which the Broadway musical is based, is a thoughtful examination of his hardships and those of his offspring. While Aleichem\u2019s stories celebrate the strength of family, Dugan\u2019s one person show mixes some of the original stories with the playwright\u2019s own extrapolations which add another dimension \u2013 a rejoicing in the resilience of immigrants who escape exploitation in their home countries only to find another form of it in the U.S.A.<\/p>\n

It is the Fourth of July 1914 and Tevye (Dugan) and his twin daughters Bielke and Taybele \u2013 who goes by the male name of Abel for reasons Tevye later explains \u2013 are living in Manhattan\u2019s Lower East Side and await the arrival of family from the Old Country. While his children and their Italian immigrant friend Maria have gone to fetch the visitors, Tevye has time to kill and what better way for a man who loves to talk \u2013 especially to his horse \u2013 than to regale us with his sometimes harrowing but mostly humorous experiences.<\/p>\n

The comical largesse of a stranger twenty years before is how Tevye explains his transformation from wood cutter to dairy farmer, a change that eased the financial burden of supporting his beloved spouse Golde and their six young daughters. But even a bolstered income cannot save the family from increasingly ferocious pogroms against Russia\u2019s Jews, forcing Tevye and his family to leave for America. On the ship, Taybele protects herself from potentially violent male advances by taking on a masculine persona, a subterfuge she chooses to continue in America but that Tevye finds mildly confusing. In one horrendous revelation, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire of 1911, that killed 146 mostly Jewish and Italian immigrant garment workers due to the company\u2019s negligence, effects Tevye\u2019s family in a profound manner, both for good and bad.<\/p>\n

Dugan makes for an affable Tevye under JP Hubbell\u2019s straightforward direction, with Hubbell utilizing common objects, from wooden crates to tables, to aid in Tevye\u2019s reliving his chronicles. Adding to the family feel is the play\u2019s venue, Dugan\u2019s own backyard, where he created a performance space during the Covid epidemic. So far it appears successful and considering the fragility of the current theatre scene this could be one way, even with airliners overhead and barking dogs next door, to keep it afloat, especially since there is a pool back there as well.<\/p>\n

Dugan\u2019s Backyard Playhouse, Woodland Hills (address will be given after a reservation is made.) Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 7 pm; through Aug. 6.\u00a0dbptickets@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”902″ image_size=”full” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”None” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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