Coming next month to a theater near me, and perhaps near you as well, a production of the Threepenny Opera by Bertold Brecht und Kurt Weill. The old G.W. Pabst film version has always been a favorite, but I've never seen a live performance of this great work, so look for me in the highest, cheapest balcony seats of the Academy come March. I'll be the guy with no earring and a nosebleed.
www.commonwealthopera.org/musical.html
Here's a glimpse of Pabst's 1931 film featuring Lotte Lenya (Mrs. Kurt Weill), and a couple of great videos from September Songs, a TV special of Weill's music that featured Tom Waits and Lou Reed among others, and here for your pleasure, Nick Cave doing Mack the Knife from the 3 Penny Opera and PJ Harvey with Ballad of the Soldier's Wife. Man, I wish they were in the show!
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You got some interesting shit here. I'm learning a few things. Like that Jennifer Jones went to Catholic school.
(well 1st I learned that Jennifer Jones existed and went from there)
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