WINNIPEG,MB

It has been the lifelong dream of Altona’s Darren Loewen to make it on Broadway. Loewen caught the bug after playing Tevye in W.C. Miller Collegiate’s 1996 production of .

“I’ve been humming the melody to “Tradition, Tradition!” on the job site ever since,” said Loewen, who works as a shejkbenjel for a local construction company. “I never gave up hope that someday, somehow, I would make it to Broadway.”

Well, Loewen’s dream finally came true this week after his crew was hired to cut down trees in Winnipeg.

“And there I was, for the first time in my life … on Broadway!” exclaimed Loewen. “Who knew it was less than 50 miles from the West Reserve?”

Loewen was mesmerized by the sights and sounds, particularly the Pizza Hotline and Subway.

“I was looking all over for Sardi’s,”

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