The Three Penny Opera (Musical)

Alan Cumming, Jim Dale, Ana Gasteyer - Studio 54

The Threepenny Opera  (German: Die Dreigroschenoper) is a musical by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, in collaboration with translator Elisabeth Hauptmann and set designer Caspar Neher. It was adapted from an 18th-century English ballad opera, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera,and offers a Marxist critique of the capitalist world. It opened on 31 August 1928 at Berlin's Theater am Schiffbauerdamm.

Cast - Alan Cumming, Jim Dale, Ana Gasteyer, Cyndi Lauper, Nellie Mckay.

By 1933, when Brecht and Weill were forced to leave Germany by the rise of Hitler, the play had been translated into 18 languages and performed more than 10000 times on European stages.

Playbill / Program Date May 2006
Run Apr 20, 2006 - Jun 25, 2006
Size 215 x 135 mm Pages 84
Condition: Used Good 8/10
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