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...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 $5.95. Season series tickets...
...lovely diffidence-the tunes, which sometimes sound like wholesome Kurt Weill, the hopefully pantheistic lyrics ("Speak to the earth, and it shall answer"), the audience-participation magic show, the light travesty of a temperance play. It is still a Midwestern country road show, a spectacular only of the local Grange hall. But it is wonderfully sufficient...
...Horace Walpole, the first prime minister of England. From time to time, the characters explain that they are at least more honest than England's unpunished rich people, but mostly they're too busy trying to sell each other out. At the end, Macheath the highwayman--the original of Weill's and Brecht's Mack the Knife, in their updated Threepenny Opera--stands with a rope around his neck while a beggar-narrator explains that for strict poetical Justice he'll have to be hanged and all the other characters hanged or transported, but that as in operas it doesn...
Died. Walden Robert Cassoto, 37, the crooner known as Bobby Darin, who at 22 became a rock-'n'-roll star with Splish Splash, won a larger audience with his driving version of Kurt Weill's Mack the Knife; following open-heart surgery for a longtime heart ailment; in Los Angeles. A confessed student of the Sinatra style, Darin characteristically loosened his tie and snapped his fingers even when singing somber songs. In 1960 he married Sandra Dee, but by the middle of the decade both his marriage and his career were turning sour. A divorce...
ORPHEUM THEATER (413 Washington St.). Boston Opera Company. Weill-Brecht: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Tickets: 267-8050. April...