Tom Dugan in a rehearsal for 'Tevye in New York.' (Courtesy of The Wallis/ via JTA)
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — The last time we saw Tevye the Milkman on Broadway in “Fiddler on the Roof” was in 2016, escaping Anatevka as a pogrom swept the shtetl.
Now, almost five years later, he is resurfacing in a one-man play titled “Tevye in New York,” opening in its world premiere — in Beverly Hills, of all places.
It’s the latest radical reimagining of the beloved Sholem Aleichem character, who also saw his “Fiddler” story performed in Yiddish in Joel Grey’s recent off-Broadway production and was the focus of a 2019 documentary. But this time the milkman goes beyond the shtetl to experience life as an American immigrant.