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‘Fiddler on the Roof’ moves
the musical to Williamsburg
If she were a rich man — she
wouldn’t have a brand new show!
Two Williamsburg comedians
have reinvented a classic Broadway
parody of the real estate market
in gentrifying neighborhoods.
“Fiddler on the Rooftop Bar,” at
the Bell House on June 18, takes
the original tale from a 1905 Russian
modern-day Brooklyn, with its
characters forced to move due to
circumstances outside of their
control — a constant worry for
renters in popular Kings County
ON THE SHTET-L-TRAIN: Marcia Belsky stars at Tevye in the parody
musical “Fiddler on the Rooftop Bar,” at the Bell House on June 18.
Jennifer Walkowiak
Organ-ic music City closes another yeshiva
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
musical as a gender-bending
shtetl and transports it to
The city announced the
closure of yet another Williamsburg
yeshiva for violating
the Health Commissioner’s
measles order on
Tuesday.
Central UTA Boys Division
at 762 Wythe Ave. is
the 10th school the Health
nabes, said one of its writers.
“The powerlessness of it, you
really have no control and it’s a
power dictating what’s going to
happen to the place where you’re
going to live,” said Melissa Stokoski,
show with Marcia Belsky. “Just
the uncertainty of living in New
York, especially in Williamsburg.”
The two comics, who previously
are familiar with that uncertainty
Department shut for not
complying with an April
9 order by Health Commissioner
Oxiris Barbot,
which she issued after the
highly-contagious illness
swept through Brooklyn’s
Orthodox Jewish communities.
Her department shut
who created and stars in the
wrote a parody musical
of “The Handmaid’s Tale,”
— in anticipation of the L
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down the northern Brooklyn
school on June 11 for
letting students and staff
onto its campus despite
not providing documentation
that they’d been vaccinated,
and the school
will have to produce those
records before they can re-
BY ROSE ADAMS
It was a fi esta on Fifth Avenue!
Folk dancers, musicians, and
artists strutted through Sunset
Park on June 9 for the 5th annual
Puerto Rican Day Parade, which
saw Puerto Rican fl ags dangling
from car windows and participants
who fl aunted their costumes
while an estimated 12,000
attendees cheered on the sidelines,
donning the patriotic red,
white, and blue.
“It was a wonderful event,”
said Carmen Dingue, who has
attended the parade since its inaugural
year. This year, Dingue
was honored for her work in Sunset
Park, where she’s involved in
Center for Family Life, a social
services non-profi t.
El Grito, a community organization
based in Sunset Park,
began the parade in 2014 as a response
to the growing commercialism
of the Manhattan Puerto
Rican Day Parade and the police
aggression attendees witnessed
there. El Grito organizers
framed the Sunset Park event as
an “after parade” for locals coming
home from the Manhattan
festivities.
Free of corporate fl oats, the
Sunset Park parade kept it simple:
a group of musicians led
BY CHANDLER KIDD
He’s got the funk!
A Brooklyn native will
bring the good news of
the funky tunes to Prospect
Park next week. Cory
Henry and his band the
Funk Apostles will open
for Tank and the Bangas
at the Bric Celebrate
Brooklyn! Festival on
June 20, with Henry singing
and playing a churchstyle
organ. The musician
said he got his start tickling
the keys when he was
just a toddler, listening in
on his mother’s choir rehearsal
at Unity Temple
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SCHOOL’S OUT: The Health
Department forced the Central
UTA Boys Division in Williamsburg
to shut its doors.
Photo by Kevin Duggan
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