The Threepenny Opera
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jun 18, 2004
Closed Aug 15, 2004
Opened Jun 18, 2004
Closed Aug 15, 2004
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Running Time:
2hr. 30min.
2hr. 30min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Set in late ninteenth century London, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's musical masterpiece The Threepenny Opera openly satirizes the morals and politics of Weimar Germany circa 1928. The piece focuses on Macheath, a cunning thief and street thug under the employ of Jonathan Peachum, king of beggars. Macheath has it all: the police under his thumb, the loyalty of his crew, the amorous attention of numerous women. But things take a radical turn when he marries the boss' daughter. The jazzy score includes "Ballad of Mack the Knife."
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At the beginning of the Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill Threepenny Opera, which Marc Blitzstein adapted to the creators' satisfaction in the early 1950s, the first of many narrators informs the audience that the play is being put on by beggars and cheaply enough that beggars can afford to attend.
The people responsible for the Jean Cocteau Repertory production of John Gay's reworked Beggar's Opera seem to have taken that announcement to heart: They've mounted an impoverished version of the in-your-face musical with its take-no-prisoners view of human nature. Watching and listening to this lackluster treatment and its accumulating deficiencies can bring to mind the old expression, "Beggars can't b[...]