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BERLIN TO BROADWAY WITH KURT WEILL...
This show is an auditory feast, but everything except the music leaves something to be desired. Kurt Weill's theater music is one of the glories of the modern stage-haunting, melodious, perfectly wedded to the lyrics. Such songs as Pirate Jenny, Alabama Song, My Ship and Lost in the Stars do more than fill an audience with pleasure. They are incarnations of beauty in sound...
...irritating thing is that the devisers of this production do not leave Weill enough alone. Arbitrarily, the show has a shipboard setting, and a tedious commentator. Donald Saddler has staged the numbers as if they were supper-club turns. The cast has fine voices, but the collective air of bouncy innocence somehow belies what is worldly, skeptical and melancholy in Weill's mental tone. This is Weill without tears, and it misses the distilled suffering that makes some of his music so affecting...
LOEB DRAMA CENTER presents Gisela May in an Evening of Songs by Brecht and Weill Saturday and Sunday...
...Adler, now 67, has more than doubled the company's regular fall season (from five to eleven weeks) and quadrupled its annual budget past the $3,000,000 mark. He has also introduced a widely adored spring program for offbeat operatic productions sung in English (among them Kurt Weill's Mahagonny). More important, he has launched the roving Western Opera, a company of young American singers and players that regularly tours in places as far apart as Alaska and Arizona. But it is in the cavernous War Memorial Opera House of the parent company that Adler has really...