May 5, 2006
A Fetish for Alienation
The haunting strains of Kurt Weill's music for The Threepenny Opera are an indelible part of American popular culture — and, for those of us who grew up in the 1950s and 60s, so are Marc Blitzstein's brilliant, if PG-rated, lyrics, freely adapted from the German. The 1954 Blitzstein production, with Weill's widow, Lotte Lenya, reprising the role of the prostitute Jenny Diver, ran for more than six years Off Broadway (and even longer on my family's living-room
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