Off to
Berkeley's Live Oak Theatre for a wonderful presentation of Kurt Weill's Happy End (Bertolt Brecht) from Goat Hall Productions.
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Before this,
a morning and afternoon of feverish catch-up,
including beginning to compose Psalm 99 and continuing with The Decameron - Second Day (page 18) and Double Piano Concerto ("Fellow Travellers") (23),
plus the orchestration of Violin Concerto ("Ticklish") 60 and pdf of San Timoteo Can[yon]tata (4).
Blitz
out
to the show in the early evening, with a report appearing next week at 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com and eventually at 21st-centurymusic.com and in print.
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Goat Hall Productions
presents
Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's
1929 Musical Comedy Masterpiece
Happy End
Music by Kurt Weill
Lyrics by Bertolt Brect
Book by Elizabeth Hauptmann
June 21-24, 2012
Live Oak Theatre
1301 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA
Place: Chicago
Time: December, 1928
Prologue
Hosanna Rockefeller!
Act One
Bill's Beerhall
Bilbao
Song
Lieutenants
of the
Lord
March Ahead
The
Sailors'
Tango
Act Two - The Salvation Army Mission, Canal Street
(Inset Beerhall)
The Sailors' Tango (reprise)
Brother, Give Yourself a Shove
Song of the Big Shot
Don't Be Afraid
In Our Childhood's Bright Endeavor
The Liquor Dealer's Dream
Act
Three
Scene
1 -
Bill's
Beerhall
Mandalay
Song
Surabaya
Johnny
Song of the Big Shot (reprise)
Ballad of the Lily of Hell
Scene 2 - The Canal Street Mission
Song of the Big Shot (reprise)
In Our Childhood's Bright Endeavor (reprise)
Lieutenants of the Lord (reprise)
Bilbao
Song
(reprise)
Cast
The
Gang
Bill
Cracker
("Beerhall Bill") -
Zoltan
DiBartolo
The Lady in Gray
("The Fly") -
Alexis Lane Jensen
Dr. Nakamura ("The Governor") - Jose Hernandez
Sam
Wurlitzer
("Mammy") -
Nikola
Printz
Jimmy Dexter ("The Reverend") -
Carl Lucania
Bob Marker
("The Professor") -
Maria Mikheyenko
Johnny Flint ("Baby Face") -
Crystal Philippi
Miriam, the Barmaid - Thalia Berardozzi
The Salvation Army
Lieutenant
Lillian Holiday
("Hallelujah Lil") - Michelle Jasso
Major Stone - Rachel Warner
Captain Hannibal Jackson -
Don Hardwick
Sister Mary - Kate Mathews
Sister Jane / Mrs. Pigeon - Maggie Tennenbaum
Brother Ben Owens / Mr. Pigeon - Ignacio Zulueta
The Cop - John Paul Olsen
Joe, the pianist -
Skye Atman
Directed
by
Harriet March Page
