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Conductor Nino Sanzogno explained to his cast at Milan's Piccola Scala that the Italian premiere of Kurt Weill's Mahagonny would have to include some English lyrics: the bitter logic of Bertolt Brecht's libretto demands them. The cast did its best with a baffling array of polyglot lines ("Good morning, caro Signor Jack O'Brien!"), but when it came to singing "Worst of all, Benares is said to have been perished by an earthquake," the chorus sensibly defected. "Guarda qua Benares, è state messa giù da un terremoto," sang the mutineers, leaving American...
...Brecht was never more didactic than in a series of one act plays he wrote in 1930. As vitriolic propaganda pieces they are good for young actors to sharpen their teeth on, but in 1964 a Marxist diatribe is pretty obvious and plenty dull...
Director Most has chosen to recreate Exception as it was done 30 years ago. Given this limitation, his production is clean, well blocked, and well paced. But Brecht without satire--and with leaden irony--plays woefully flat, as this production by the Adams House Drama Society shows...
...jolted even the class-conscious '30s with his pro-labor operetta, The Cradle Will Rock, mellowed slightly after the war (he renounced Communism in 1949, the year his opera Regina appeared), but kept a spare set of sharks' teeth pearly white, dear, for the English adaptation of Brecht's Threepenny Opera, which ran six years off-Broadway, made a jukebox gigolo of Mack the Knife; in Fort-de-France, Martinique, where police charged three sailors with beating him to death...
...whose fine white horses won the chariot race. He first earned wide recognition on the West End stage as the leering General St. Pé in Anouilh's Waltz of the Toreadors, and on Broadway as Thomas Wolfe's father in Look Homeward, Angel. Last year, doing Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle in London, he nearly deprived the world of his future services when, during the hanging scene, he slipped off the box he was standing on and hanged himself in full view of the audience. After gurgling and turning black, he passed out. The curtain fell...