Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cast at the Loeb is almost uniformly excellent; no performance is worse than good. The scene is set skillfully at the onset by a London street singer (Scott Taylor), who tells of Mac the Knife, a ruthless, but versatile killer, robber, and rapist with an ability bordering enchantment to escape the police. Mac (Christopher Reeve) is about to marry Polly Peachum (Jessica Richman), the naive, though self-confidant, daughter of Jonathan Peachum (Colgate Salsbury), the man who coordinates all the panhandling in London...
...Threepenny Opera is often cited for its lyrical and musical inventiveness, qualities which the Loeb production brings to the fore. But the lasting power of the play lies in the persistence of the problems which were paramount to Brecht's political concerns--the perversion of human character by poverty and exploitation, the evils of monied power, and the shallowness of middle class virtue in capitalist society. The themes of his musical are broad, stark, and important--and all the more forceful for the Repertory's outstanding performance...
...tonight and tomorrow. It's hard to imagine this professional production of the Bertolt Brecht classic being very bad. For the official line see Peter Shane's review which appears elsewhere in this issue. The curtain goes up at 8 p.m. tonight; tomorrow's show starts at 9. The Loeb is charging $5.95 a head for the weekend performances, so you may do well to wait for one of the cheaper weekday showings...
...Threepenny Opera opens Wednesday night at the Loeb. This is the first in a series of offerings by the Harvard Summer School Repertory, a company that is traditionally proficient and thoroughly professional. The Bertolt Brecht play is a modern classic, and a delight to see if the performance is sufficiently raunchy. Kurt Weill's music and Brecht lyrics give the show its real flavor; "The Ballad of Mack the Knife" is the tastiest number. The Shark bites Wednesday and Thursday at 8 p.m. at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St. Wednesday tickets are $4.95, a Thursday seat costs...
...Loeb Drama Center staged passable productions all year, but the whole center--and Harvard drama in general--concentrated on standard, light-weight plays done many times before. The Spring saw a half-dozen old musicals, with outstanding performances of two: the Gilbert and Sullivan Players' Ruddigore, and Dunster House's Wizard of Oz. But serious drama had no spectacular successes. One student-written play was among the best stage productions of the year: The Teeth of Mons Herbert, by Philip Lazebnik...