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Berlin To Broadway With Kurt Weill
Musician/Composer(s):
Kurt Weill
Lyricist(s):
Alan Jay Lerner
Arnold Weinstein
Bertolt Brecht
George Tabori
Ira Gershwin
Jacques Deval
Langston Hughes
Marc Blitzstein
Maxwell Andersen
Michael Feingold
Ogden Nash
Paul Green
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The life and times of one of the most extraordinary artists of the twentieth century is the subject of this remarkable musical voyage through the career of composer Kurt Weill. Weill’s greatest theatre works are presented in a fluid blend of song and story spanning twenty eventful years, from Von Hindenburg and Hitler in Germany, where Weill became an outstanding theatre composer by the time he was thirty, to Roosevelt and Truman in the U.S. where he became a renowned citizen of his adopted country and a master of the Broadway musical. Along the way, he created some of the most popular and daring musical theatre pieces of his day, collaborating with a dazzling array of literary giants, including Bertolt Brecht, Langston Hughes, Maxwell Andersen, Alan Jay Lerner and Ira Gershwin, and blurring the boundary between “serious” and “popular” music. This thrilling evening features songs from “Happy End,” “Lady In The Dark,” “One Touch Of Venus,” “Street Scene,” “Lost In The Stars” and more, not to mention Weill’s masterpiece, “The Threepenny Opera.”
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| Genre(s): | Not Available | | Time Period(s): | Not Available | | Play Type: | Musical | | Runtime: | Not Available | | Acts: | 2 | | Set Complexity: | Not Available | | Set Information: | Not Available | | Year First Published: | Not Available | | Total Characters: | 5 | | Male Characters: | 3 | | Female Characters: | 2 | | Androgynous Characters: | 0 | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | Not Available | | Publisher: | Music Theatre International
Click on the publisher's name above for additional information, including updated prices. | | ISBN: | Not Available |
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