Word: surabaya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only were the famous Bilbao Song and "Surabaya Johnny written for this musical, but also half a dozen other numbers of rare distinction. Weill creates a dramatic internal rhetoric by alternating abrasive, staccato jazz-tempo passages with languorous melodies of rich and striking beauty...
...bribery against an executive might well require evidence from foreign sources that U.S. courts have no power to compel. Then too, as one Washington official states, "We will not clean up the Indonesian civil service by American law. It will take a bribe to place a telephone call from Surabaya to Jakarta, as far as I can tell, for the next 50 years. Do you send an American businessman to jail for that?" The answer is, of course, no: enforcement would have to focus on the big payoffs...
...Yale troupe invests the silly plot with style, wit and perfect timing. The score is something more-a Kurt Weill marvel. Not only were the famous Bilbao Song and Surabaya Johnny written for this musical, but also half a dozen other numbers of rare distinction. They range from Song of the Big Shot ("Just don't get soft, baby/ For god's sake never get soft, baby/ No ifs or buts/ Go on and kick him in the guts/ Go on and kick him in the guts. ") to Throw Out the Lifeline-Soul Overboard. By turns, the music...