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Faithfull presents two sides of herself in her two act show Don't Smoke in Bed! Act One is a cabaret in which she performs songs by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, accompanied by Paul Trueblood on piano. Faithfull initially had to struggle with the Kurt Weill Institute for permission to sing his songs. This obstacle seems ironic--for much publicized bouts with despair and heartache, not to mention drugs, make her a perfectly cast character...
...first act also included the French song "Complainte de la Seine," a litany of the refuse at river's bottom. She thus moved strangely from Weill's world of caviar and champagne to mucky vomit and severed limbs. Even more disconcerting was how, after she finished each melancholy song, she beamed a queer smile at the audience's hearty applause...
Boston Symphony Orchestra. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave., Boston. 266-1492. John Mauceri to lead in Music of Hindemith, Korngold and Weill Thurs., April 6 through Sat., April 8 and Tues., April...
...which she was the soloist, became the most unexpected classical crossover hit of all time, landing on the British pop charts in 1993. Now Upshaw has another unlikely triumph on her hands: a new album called I Wish It So, which consists of mostly unfamiliar theater songs by Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim...
...love: the album's title number, taken from Blitzstein's 1959 Juno; There Won't Be Trumpets, a song dropped from Sondheim's short-lived 1964 show Anyone Can Whistle; What More Do I Need?, from an unproduced Sondheim musical of 1954, ! Saturday Night; and That's Him, from Weill and Ogden Nash's 1943 One Touch of Venus. Accompanied alternately by small ensembles and an orchestra, Upshaw stakes her claim as theater music's most luminous ingenue since Barbara Cook -- vulnerable yet resolute, urgently soaring yet as down-to-earth as the girl next door...