So, what’s so funny about gay marriage? I asked new vaudevillian Sara Felder shortly after the kick-off panel for Out in the Tropics, the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender performing arts festival new to Miami Beach this summer. Here are her answers to that impertinent question, and a few more. Your one-woman show June Bride is a comic piece about a Jewish, lesbian wedding. What’s so funny about gay marriage? Marriage, by definition is hilarious. Weddings are funny because they’re about family. Gay is funny, because it’s about outsiders looking in.

What about Judaism? Judaism is funny because it’s about Jews, who have learned that to defuse a situation, you need to use comedy. Jews found their comic voice around one hundred years ago or so.

Why did you choose this subject? I thought this was an important story to tell.

You talk about juggling your identities, but I’m not sure whether that’s a metaphor or whether you literally juggle in the show. I’m looking at publicity photos for show, but I don’t see you juggling. {Laughs] You ask a powerful question about the nature of photography and the nature of juggling. Sometimes there’s a photographer who wants to take a picture of me juggling, but that takes a really long time.

So you do juggle in the show? There’s a lot of juggling. The juggling in the show is a metaphor for juggling traditions. I also perform contact juggling, where the balls roll along the body, representing a prayer. There’s some big knife juggling during a discussion of circumcision.

Ouch! You’ve been described as “vaudevillian,” and not just by me in this post. Does that mean you’re on a circuit, taking your show across the country like in the old days? There’s not a circuit, but I do get asked to perform at certain places. I’m happy to be appearing in the first Out in the Tropics festival. Mazel tof! Sara Felder performs at 7pm on Sunday, July 11 at the Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach as part of the OUT IN THE TROPICS Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Performing Arts Festival. The festival runs through July 11. For a complete schedule see www.fundarte.us; For tickets, www.ticketmaster.com.