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...Lotte Lenya, Kurt Weill's widow, and the original star of Weill's Threepenny Opera, will be in Boston for an "evening of song, poetry and conversation" at the Cabaret at the Charles Playhouse, 76 Warrenton St. Lenya is a great singer and a great woman, something like the other side of Marlene Dietrich. There's no way this evening won't be worth it. Monday...
...Dankworth and began appearing with his band as a featured act, but she also kept up her new attachment to the theater. She played both Hippolyta and Titania in a West End production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hedda Gabler at Canterbury, and replaced an ailing Lotte Lenya in a production of the Weill-Brecht The Seven Deadly Sins in Edinburgh. Currently she is starring in a London revival of Show Boat, where her breathy, pulsating Bill is a showboat-stopper. Her musically adventurous nature has also led her to give lieder recitals, try some of Dankworth...
...exception must be made. Margery Cohen bears witness to life's bruises, and in the style of Lotte Lenya and Elly Stone, her voice contains pain, endures it, survives...
...someone to try his hand at a new version. Blitzstein's "Mack the Knife," of course, will never be replaced, but the rest of his songs are uneven in quality. Jerry Lanning's interpretation of "Mack" owes a lot to Tony Bennett, and Judy Lander isn't Lotte Lenya, but they are both good night-club performers, and later in the act show some acting talent as well...
...lazy, wheeling style-until suddenly the merry-go-round lurches out of control. The carousel spins elliptically, dangerously, until the singer reaches an unbearable frenzy -and shatters. Audiences that witness such tours de force know what it must have been like in the '30s, when the young Lotte Lenya sang the works of Brecht and Weill, and cabaret fused with...