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...Brecht and Weill are so well-known for Threepenny Opera that their other masterpieces are often ignored. Sarah Caldwell is presenting The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. The libretto, as bitter as any Brecht ever did, concerns a city whose only crime is if you cannot pay. Too bad most of us cannot pay for the tickets: the ones left are from $10 to $18. The sensible way to see Boston Opera Company productions is to enroll in their open-rehearsal subscription series...
ORPHEUM THEATER (413 Washington St.). Boston Opera Company. Weill-Brecht: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Tickets: 267-8050. April...
...make things easier for her husband), she incessantly purses her lips and tenses her fingers through a series of phone calls to friends, then shouts her way through an imagined dialogue with the absent husband. A friend of mine who spent several weeks of a drama workshop on this Brecht play tells me that this difficult role ought to be played down, and I think he's right. But Singer just keeps pouring it on, repeating the same nervous pauses and tense jerkings until none of them mean very much...
...Jewish Wife by Brecht, and Peter Handke's I Came Into the World, opening tomorrow at the Caravan Theater, 1400 Mass...
...real jewel of the season promises to be Kurt Weill's great Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, which the Boston Opera is producing in the spring. Mahagonny has a Brecht libretto about the building of the capitalist paradise, the City of Nets, where everyone can do whatever he likes as long as he can pay for it. Mahogonny's best-known number is probably the Alabama-Song, one of two songs Brecht wrote in English, which the Doors popularized a few years ago. But there's so much great, furious music in Mahogonny that it's hard...