Threepenny Opera
Broadway Musical
Previews March 24 2006
Opened April 20 2006
Limited Run to June 25 2006 Run
32 previews & 77 performances Running Time
2 hrs 50 mins | 1 intermission Tickets $36.25 to $111.25
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Producers
Roundabout Theatre
Creative
Bertolt Brecht book & lyrics
Wallace Shawn new translation & adapted book
Kurt Weill music
Scott Elliot director
Aszure Barton choreographer
Isaac Mizrahi costume design
Jason Lyons lighting design
Derek McLane scenic design
Opening Night Cast
Alan Cumming | Jim Dale | Ana Gasteyer | Cyndi
Lauper | Nellie McKay
Synopsis
Who's that sneaking 'round the
corner? And why can't I get Bobby Darin's version of The Ballad
of Mack the Knife out of my head this morning? Macheath is the
neer-do-well slithering through the underside of 1830s London. He
courts and marries young Polly Peachum, is entrapped by her parents,
faces the gallows, is reprieved by the queen and goes on the live
the life of a young nobleman
Broadway Show History
Threepenny Opera had a rather inauspicious Broadway debut at
the Empire Theater in April 1933. Francesco Von Mendelssohn, in his
directorial debut, directed a cast of more than 40 performers in a
production that ran for 12 performances. About the only interesting
tidbit is a young Burgess Meredith as a member of Macheath's gang
The defining production of Threepenny Opera in American
musical history had a split engagement at the Theatre de Lys. A
short run in the Spring of 1954, preceded a 2,611 performance
engagement from September 1955 to December 1961. Directed by Carmen
Capalbo, the cast was headed by Scott Merrill, Jo Sullivan, Frederic
Downs, Jane Connell and Lotte Lenya. Ms Lenya won the
1956 Tony®
as best featured actress in a musical. And, for a bit of triva, Bea
Arthur made her Broadway debut in the role of Lucy Brown
With 1966 came the Swedish marionette version of the show at the
Billy Rose Theater. 'Nuff said
Richard Foreman (apt name for a director) helmed a 306-performance
production starring Raul Julia and Caroline Kave at the
Vivian Beaumont Theater
beginning in May 1976. This New York Shakespeare Festival revival
was nominated for five 1977
Tony Awards®
In October 1989, Sting took to the Lunt-Fontanne Theater stage as
Macheath in an 65-performance revival. Georgia Brown was nominated
for a 1990 Tony® for her
portrayal of Mrs Peachum opposite Alvin Epstein's Mister, Maureen
McGovern appeared as young Polly, with Suzzanne Douglas as Jenny
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