3Penny Opera

3Penny Opera

a new adaptation of Brecht and Weill’s Threepenny Opera

adaptation and direction by George Abud

musical adaptation and orchestration by Jake Landau

choreography by Brianna Mercado

Starring Katrina Lenk as Pirate Jenny, Barbara Walsh as Polly Peachum, and George Abud as Macheath

With Paula Gaudier as Pam/Young Polly, Mahira Kakkar
as Tiger Brown, and Aline Salloum as Mrs. Peachum

January 15-25, 2026

Theatre at St. Jeans

(150 E. 76^th St., NYC)

Abud’s adaptation, commissioned by Off-Brand Opera, sets Threepenny in
present day New York City against the backdrop of a Mayoral Inauguration.
Themes of immigration abuse and class
warfare burn beneath a vaudevillian veneer of riotous Brechtian comedy.