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Grosz, the sardonic sadomasochism of Bertolt Brecht, the tinkling melancholic musical style of Kurt Weill, and the plumpish, thigh-bared, black-gartered allure of Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel. Add a living link to the period in Weill's widow, Actress Lotte Lenya, with her cynical eyes and big-city-scarred voice. Set this musical by committee in a chic-sleazy nightspot called the Kit Kat Klub, supply a rouged M.C. played with androgynous guile by Joel Grey, bring on hip-roiling, braless chorines with soft-boiled smiles and any kind of love for sale, orchestrate...
Lotte Lenya. The name conjures up visions of the Berlin Theatre Ensemble, of the plays of Bertolt Brecht and the music of Kurt Weill...
...menacing timpani of wooden spoons. Eerie moans and whimpers fill the air like the cries of lost souls, recorded in limbo. A clownishly decked-out Greek chorus of whores and fools breaks into gritty tunes and cynical ditties on the age's corruption that evoke Brecht and Weill...
...performance of a new Liturgy of the Holy Spirit, with words by Poet William Robert Miller. Based vaguely on a Christian service described by the 2nd century theologian Hippolytus, the eclectic 14-part liturgy included jazz anthems in fairly conventional "cool" style, ballad-like congregational hymns reminiscent of Kurt Weill, choral passages as modal as a 14th century Mass. Florida-born Ed Summerlin began writing jazz for use in churches six years ago, when he poured out his grief at the loss of his nine-month-old daughter in a Requiem for Mary Jo, a jazz setting of the Methodist...
Timothy S. Mayer '66, director of the Brecht-Weill musical, said yesterday that the show, which had a full house for each of its original seven performances, still had an audience in those people turned away last week. "We'd like to help the Courier," he added...