A Cabaret of Theater and Song by Bertolt Brecht With Music by Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler
With Belle Linda Halpern, Kermit Dunkelberg and Ron Roy, Pianist
Directed by Kim Mancuso / Musical Direction By Ron Roy
A Pilgrim Theatre Production
A Taste of “Moon Over dark street”
A cabaret of theatre and music by collaborators Bertolt Brecht, Elizabeth Hauptman, Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler featuring jazz-hot tunes which emerged during the decline of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Adolph Hitler. An evening of notable classics from Threepenny Opera (“Mack The Knife”; “Pirate Jenny”), Happy End (“Bilbao Song”; “Surabaya Johnny”, “Song of the Big Shot”), and Little Mahagonny (“Alabama Song”), and the wrenching ballads of Hanns Eisler. The production tracks the devastation of WWII and the McCarthy Era traveling from Berlin to Hollywood with songs of love, sex and agitation, and a chilling resonance with today’s political scene.
Upcoming Dates
MIT W97 Theatre ~ 345 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139
Press/Publicity
““’Moon Over Dark Street’ serves as an entertaining, poignant introduction to the works of a man caught in the mid-century crosscurrents of history, and Brecht comes away looking like a survivor: ‘Never go soft,’ Halpern sings as a surrogate for the songwriter. ‘If there have to be kicks, I’ll be the one to give them and the kicked one will be you.”” ”
“ “Listen to Halpern, a raven-haired sorceress of a warbler who can handle the heart tugs and knife thrusts of “Pirate Jenny” and “Surabaya Johnny”. You can luxuriate in the bittersweet waters of the music, whose lyrical cynicism still refreshes….” ”
““When Dunkelberg sings auf deutsch and Halpern auf English in duet, with the incomparable Ron Roy at the piano, their performance soars to the stratosphere!””