Not long ago, I posted a video here of Theodore Bikel and Fyvush Finkel (from Picket Fences and Boston Public) recreating the “To Life” number from when they toured in Fiddler on the Roof many years earlier. After posting that, I did some more searching, and found this gem. It may seem like the same thing, but it’s very different. And wonderfully so. So, I offer it as a bonus. This is the two of them five years later (at which point Bikel was then 84 and Finkel was 86) at a gala event for the famed Yiddish Theatre Folksbienne in New York. This is the wonderful theater that recently did an all-Yiddish production of Fiddler on the Roof to great acclaim. (And did the first New York production of the Barry Manilow-Bruce Sussman musical Harmony, before it transferred to Broadway.) In this video, Bikel and Finkel not only sing “To Life” again – but this time, they perform the entire scene (with dialogue), sort of in costume. But even more notable, they do it all --–in Yiddish! (Don't worry, there are subtitles.) It’s absolutely wonderful. As a reminder, this is the scene when the butcher Lazar Wolf is asking Tevye to marry his daughter -- and at first Tevye, a dairyman, thinks he's been invited there because Lazar Wolf wants to buy one of his milk cows.
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