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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...
...Weimar Republic in 1932, is the orphan of modern art: plaintive, clotted with turbulent emotion, snotty and-outside Germany-somewhat inaccessible. Its local significance was immense, its international resonance small; even today, the expressionist works that survive best seem to be in film (Fritz Lang) or theater (Brecht-Weill) rather than in painting...
...Loeb to make way for the Summer School Repertory Theater's next production, Odets's Awake and Sing! One of those faceless people in the Harvard bureaucracy sent The Crimson an anonymous note pointing out that it was "bullshit", to say that the local production of the Brecht-Weill play drew unanimous praise. That's probably true, but it is also probably true that our correspondents' mother wears army boots. In any case, the show at the Loeb is undeniably excellent and it would be a shame to miss it before it closes tomorrow night. This evening's performance...
...PIECES of modern drama approach The Threepenny Opera's degree of achievement on any of the several levels on which the play is totally triumphant. Bertolt Brecht's writing is an extraordinary synthesis of wit, imagination, political commitment, and human insight. Kurt Weill's brash, deceptively melodic music intensifies the force of the drama spectacularly. No adaptation could be more faithful than Mark Blitzstein's to the atmosphere Brecht and Weill sought to create, truer to their message or more sympathetic to their dramatic approach. But if the drama is to succeed on stage, these achievements must be equalled...
...performances of Tiina Cartmell, Colgate Salsbury, Margo Martindale, Christopher Reeve, Jessica Richman, and Cynthia Dickason are all magnificent. All manage Weill's difficult music skillfully, and successfully recreate Brecht's mix of cynicism and passion. They derive admirable assistance from the minor players, particularly from Jonathan Frakes, who plays Matt, a resentful member of Mac's gang, and from Patrick Clear, who plays Tiger Brown...