A Kurt Weill Cabaret

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A Kurt Weill Cabaret
Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording
Music	Kurt Weill
Lyrics	Bertolt Brecht Ogden Nash Maxwell Anderson Ira Gershwin
Basis	Songs of Kurt Weill
Productions	1963 Off-Broadway 1979 Broadway

A Kurt Weill Cabaret was a Broadway and off-Broadway production featuring the music of Kurt Weill. The off-Broadway production, starring Will Holt and Martha Schlamme opened in 1963. In 1979, it was revised and opened at the Bijou Theater on Broadway, with Alvin Epstein and Martha Schlamme and ran for 72 performances.

A recording of the original production was released by MGM Records (E/SE 4180 OC) in 1963.

Songs[]

• Threepenny Opera"
  • "The Ballad of the Easy Life" (instrumental only)
  • "The Barbara Song"
  • "Mack the Knife"
  • "Tango Ballade"
  • "Pirate Jenny"
  • "Survival Song" (sung in the second act before "Lost in the Stars".)
• • "Le Roi d'Aquitaine"
• Der Silbersee
  • "Caesar's Death"
• Lady in the Dark
  • "The Saga of Jenny"
• Knickerbocker Holiday
  • "September Song"
• Happy End
  • "Mandalay Song"
  • "Surabaya Johnny"
  • "Bilbao Song"
• Lost in the Stars
  • "Lost in the Stars"

External links[]

• A Kurt Weill Cabaret, Internet Broadway Database