LOVEMUSIK (2007 OBC)
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Music: Kurt Weill
Lyrics: Maxwell Anderson, Bertolt Brecht, Howard Dietz, Roger Fernay, Ira Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein II, Langston Hughes, Alan Jay Lerner, Maurice Magre, Ogden Nash, Elmer Rice, Kurt Weill
Book: Alfred Uhry
*Suggested by the letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya
Performers: Judy Blazer, Edwin Cahill, Michael Cerveris, Herndon Lackey, Erik Liberman, Ann Morrison, Donna Murphy, David Pittu, Graham Rowat, John Scherer, Rachel Ulanet, Jessica Wright
Based upon the lives of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya
Act I
In 1924, Weill is visiting a friend in Europe, and Lenya is sent to meet him. They are immediately attracted to each other and their subsequent romance and marriage follow the course of events in pre-World War II Germany. Weill collaborates with Bertolt Brecht, and the two write The Threepenny Opera, among other important works. But Brecht's ego and politics cause a rift, and the two part. Weill and Lenya divorce and later remarry. As the Jewish Weill becomes a popular and successful composer, Weill and Lenya are forced to leave Germany
Act II
Now in the United States, Weill has successful musicals produced on Broadway, such as Lady in the Dark, and also spends time in California. The couple have an open marriage – both have other romantic interests; and Weill is a workaholic. But they remain with each other until his death in 1950. Lenya, although devastated at his loss, is urged to return to the stage in Weill's The Threepenny Opera.
Tracks:
1. Speak Low (lyrics by Ogden Nash)
2. Nanna's Lied (lyrics by Bertlot Brecht)
3. Kiddush
4. Song of the Rhineland (lyrics by Ira Gershwin)
5. Klops Lied (Meatball Song)
6. Berlin Im Licht (lyrics by Kurt Weill)
7. Tango Ballad (lyrics by Bertolt Brecht)
8. Alabama Song (lyrics by Bertolt Brecht)
9. Girl of the Moment (lyrics by Ira Gershwin)
10. Moritat (lyrics by Bertolt Brecht)
11. Schickelgruber (lyrics by Howard Dietz)
12. I Don't Love You (lyrics by Maurice Magre)
13. Wouldn't You Like to be on Broadway? (lyrics by Langston Hughes)
14. Alabama Song, Reprise
15. Entr'Acte
16. Very, Very, Very (lyrics by Ogden Nash)
17. It's Never Too Late to Mendelssohn (lyrics by Ira Gershwin)
18. Surabaya Johnny (lyrics by Bertolt Brecht)
19. Buddy on the Night Shift (lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II)
20. That's Him (lyrics by Ogden Nash)
21. Hosannah Rockefeller (lyrics by Bertolt Brecht)
22. I Don't Love You, Reprise
23. The Illusion Wedding Show (lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner)
24. It Never Was You (lyrics by Maxwell Anderson)
25. A Bird of Passage (lyrics by Maxwell Anderson)
26. September Song (lyrics by Maxwell Anderson)
27. Threepenny