{"id":1909,"date":"2006-12-05T05:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2006-12-05T05:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T13:23:00","slug":"oy-the-next-jewish-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1909","title":{"rendered":"Oy, The Next Jewish Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve heard, maybe, of <i>The Rothschilds<\/i>. You&#8217;ve heard, maybe, of <i>Fiddler on the Roof<\/i>. I give to you the next Broadway sensation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more Avenue Jew--><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OXYKef7d3VI\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OXYKef7d3VI\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>[Credit for finding this goes to <a href=\"http:\/\/shiftcommathree.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">shiftcommathree<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/weirdjews.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">weirdjews<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Update: Here&#8217;s some further background from <a href=\"http:\/\/lordandrei.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">lordandrei<\/a>&#8216;s posting of this.  This is a performance that occurred at this year&#8217;s Easter Bonnet Competition. Apparently, there was a collaborative performance by the casts of Fiddler on the Roof and Avenue Q. The result was a satire called Avenue Jew. The Q cast members included the current Broadway stars as well as Lyon and Tartaglia. The script and article of the satire can be found in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playbill.com\/news\/article\/85734.html\" target=\"_blank\">recent online article in Playbill<\/a> (and, <a href=\"http:\/\/shutterbug93.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">shutterbug93<\/a>, the article mentions Kevin). <a href=\"http:\/\/lordandrei.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">lordandrei<\/a> also highlighted this YouTube video of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HPvZVdHDB4E&#038;NR\" target=\"_blank\">the British Avenue Q cast doing &#8220;Sucks to be me&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve heard, maybe, of The Rothschilds. You&#8217;ve heard, maybe, of Fiddler on the Roof. I give to you the next Broadway sensation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,28,1],"tags":[174,245],"class_list":["post-1909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judaism-2","category-theatre","category-lj-xfer","tag-theatre-2006","tag-youtube-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}