Act 2 Flashcards
You saw Chava with Fyedka?
Would I make it up? Oh, and Tzeital, I happened to be at the post office today and the Posen to me there was a letter there for your sister, Hodel.
Fish- fresh fish
Oh, Tzeital, Tzeital darling. Guess who I just saw your sister, Chava, with that Fyedka! And that’s not the first time I’ve seen them together.
Wonderful, I’ll go get it
I got it! It’s from her intended, perchik.
Hodel will be happy, she’s been waiting… But it’s open.
It happened to be open….
Shaindel Shaindel, I have such news for you.
(Sing)
Remember Perchik, that crazy student? Remember at the wedding.. When Tzeital married Motel and Perchik started dancing with Tevye’s daughter Hodel? Well, I just heard that Perchik’s been arrested, in Kiev
Group 1: no
Yes
Motel studies dancing
And Tevye’s acting strange
Shprintze has the Measles
And Bielke has the Mumps
And that’s what comes from men and women dancing
Papa…papa…
Unseen are heard singing tradition as Chava exists
Golde, are you home? I’ve got the two boys, the boys I told you about.
Golde darling, here they are, wonderful boys, both learned boys, Golde, from good families, each of them a prize, a jewel, you couldn’t do better for your girls… Just right. From the top of the tree.
I don’t know, Yente. My girls are still so young…
So what do they look like, grandfathers? Meanwhile they’ll be engaged, nothing to worry about later, no looking around, their future all signed and sealed.
Which one for which one?
What’s the difference, take your pick.
Call your father.
Go home, tell your parents I’ll talk to them.
Where can I go with a wife, her parents and three children?
Well, Anatevka hasn’t exactly been a garden of Eden.
(Sings)
A little bit of this
A little bit of that.
A pot
(Sings)
A stick of wood
A piece of cloth
Come children
Help me pack the rest of the clothes
Golde darling, I had to see you before I left because I have such news for you. Golde darling, you remember I told you yesterday I didn’t know where to go, what to do with these old bones? Now I know! You want to hear? I’ll tell you. Golde darling, all my life I’ve dreamed of going to one place and now I’ll walk, I’ll crawl, I’ll get there. Guess where? You’ll never guess… Every year at Passover, what do they say? Next year in Jerusalem, next year in the Holy Land.
You’re going to the Holy Land.
You guessed! And you know why? In my sleep, my husband, my Aaron, came to me and said: Yente, go to the Holy Land. Usually, of course, I wouldn’t listen to him because, good as he was, too much brains he wasn’t blessed with. But in my sleep it’s a sign. Right? So, somehow or other, I’ll get to the Holy Land. And you want to know what I’ll do there? I’m a matchmaker, no? I’ll arrange marriages, yes? So I’m going to the Holy Land to help our people increase and multiply. It’s my mission. So goodbye, Golde.
Goodbye, Yente. Be we’ll and go in peace.
Maybe next time, Golde, we will meet on happier occasions. Meanwhile, we suffer, we suffer, we suffer in silence! Right? Of course, right.
