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Author Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950.

Title The threepenny opera : original cast album.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Decca Broadway : Distributed by Universal Music & Video Distribution, [2000]
℗2000

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Description 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in.
Description digital
optical
1.4 m/s
digital recording
Note Musical.
Music by Kurt Weill; original lyrics by Bert Brecht; English adaptation of book and lyrics by Marc Blitzstein; based on John Gay's The beggar's opera.
Performer Scott Merrill (Macheath (Mack the Knife)); Martin Wolfson (Mr. J.J. Peachum); Jo Sullivan (Polly Peachum); Charlotte Rae (Mrs. Peachum); Gerald Price (Streetsinger); Beatrice Arthur (Lucy Brown); George Tyne (Tiger Brown); Lotte Lenya (Jenny); supporting cast; orchestra; Samuel Matlowsky, piano, conductor. In the bonus track: Lotte Lenya, vocal; Marc Blitzstein, piano.
Event Recorded Apr. 1954.
Note "Originally released as M-G-M album E/SE 3121, July 1954"--Notes, p. 15.
Compact disc.
Program notes by David Farneth, and synopsis from the 1954 release (15 p. : ports.) in container.
Contents Prologue : (spoken) -- Overture -- The ballad of Mack the Knife -- Morning anthem -- Instead-of-song -- Army song -- Wedding song -- Love song -- Ballad of dependency -- The world is mean -- Melodrama ; and, Polly's song -- Pirate Jenny -- Tango-ballad -- Ballad of the easy life -- Barbara song -- Jealousy duet -- How to survive -- Useless song -- Solomon song -- Call from the grave -- Death message -- Finale : The mounted messenger -- Bonus track: The ballad of Mack the Knife.
Language Sung in English; originally in German.
Subject Musicals -- Excerpts.
Musicals -- Excerpts.
Musicals.
Musicals -- Excerpts, Arranged.
Musicals -- Excerpts, Arranged.
Musicals.
Genre/Form Sound recordings.
Sound recordings.
Excerpts.
Excerpts.
Arrangements (Music)
Arrangements (Music)
Added Author Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956, lyricist.
Blitzstein, Marc, translator, performer.
Merrill, Scott, performer.
Wolfson, Martin, performer.
Sullivan, Jo, performer.
Rae, Charlotte, 1926-2018, performer.
Price, Gerald (Actor), performer.
Arthur, Beatrice, performer.
Tyne, George, performer.
Lenya, Lotte, performer.
Matlowsky, Samuel, performer, conductor.
Gay, John, 1685-1732. Beggar's opera.
Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950. Dreigroschenoper. Moritat von Mackie Messer. English; arranged.
Added Title Dreigroschenoper. Selections. English; arranged https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2006003928
Note Title on container: Kurt Weill's The threepenny opera = Die Dreigroschenoper
Added Title Dreigroschenoper
Ballad of Mack the Knife.
Mack the Knife.
Music No. 012 159 463-2 Decca
E/SE 3121 M-G-M