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Author Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950.

Title Happy end / [music by] Kurt Weill ; [lyrics by] Bertolt Brecht.

Publication Info. [New York, N.Y.] : Ghostlight Records, [2006]

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 Talbott Media  CD 7130    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 audio disc (51 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time 005100
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in.
Description digital
optical
1.4 m/s
digital recording
Note "A melodrama with songs"--Notes, p. [3].
Book and lyrics adapted by Michael Feingold from the original German play by Dorothy Lane.
Performer Peter Macon (Bill Cracker); Jack Willis (Sam "Mammy" Wurlitzer); Joan Harris-Gelb (Major Stone); Steven Anthony Jones (Captain Hannibal Jackson); Charlotte Cohn (Lieutenant Lillian Holiday ("Hallelujah Lil")); supporting cast from the American Conservatory Theater; orchestra; Constantine Kitsopoulos, conductor.
Event Recorded July 17, 2006, Skywalker Sound, Marin County, Calif.
Note Compact disc.
Program notes by Carey Perloff and Michael Feingold, synopsis, and lyrics (31 p. : ports.) in container.
Contents Prologue (1:24) -- The Bilbao song (5:05) -- Lieutenants of the Lord (2:31) -- March ahead (1:01) -- Time in a shot glass (:19) -- The sailors' tango (7:21) -- Entr'acte (:13) -- The sailors' tango : (reprise) (1:08) -- Brother, give yourself a shove (:35) -- Song of the big shot (1:24) -- Don't be afraid (1:27) -- In our childhood's bright endeavor (:48) -- The liquor dealer's dream (4:25) -- The Mandalay song (2:40) -- Goddam it (:20) -- Surabaya Johnny (5:26) -- The heist (1:09) -- Ballad of the lily of hell (4:14) -- Song of the big shot : (reprise) (1:34) -- In our childhood's bright endeavor : (reprise) (1:17) -- Epilogue (4:32) -- The Bilbao song : (reprise) (1:34).
Language Sung in English; originally in German.
Subject Musicals -- Excerpts.
Musicals -- Excerpts.
Musicals.
Musicals.
Genre/Form Sound recordings.
Sound recordings.
Excerpts.
Excerpts.
Added Author Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956, lyricist.
Feingold, Michael, translator, adapter.
Macon, Peter, performer.
Willis, Jack, performer.
Harris-Gelb, Joan, performer.
Jones, Steven A., performer.
Cohn, Charlotte, performer.
Kitsopoulos, Constantine, conductor.
Lane, Dorothy, 1897-1973. Happy end.
American Conservatory Theater, performer.
Added Title Happy end. Selections. English
Music No. 7915584418-2 Ghostlight Records