Hallelujah Lil, a Salvation Army lieutenant, tries to save the souls of Bill Cracker and his fellow gang members

Happy End (English and German Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Weill, Kurt

Dramas & Plays

METHUEN

Hallelujah Lil, a Salvation Army lieutenant, tries to save the souls of Bill Cracker and his fellow gang members

They were an unlikely couple. Kurt Weill was a German cantor's son, cerebral, well-educated. Lotte Lenya was two years older, an Austrian Catholic coachman's daughter, waif-like, less than beautiful but always appealing to men. She survived the abuse of an alcoholic father, escaping to Zurich and finally Berlin, working as a would-be dancer turned actress. When they met, she was a domestic worker in the home of the playwright he had come to recruit as a librettist. Much to his family's dismay, they married in 1926. Fiercely independent and yet codependent, Weill and Lenya spent twenty-five years discovering a way to live together after realizing that they couldn't live apart. Weill gave music to her voice, Lenya gave voice to his music. Their correspondence—first in German and later, after their move to America, in highly flavored English—is uninhibited, intimate, and irreverent. It offers a backstage view of German music and theater, the American musical theater in the late thirties and forties, and Hollywood. The letters are candid, vivid commentaries on world events, the creative process, and the experience of exile. Never before published, this collection reflects the vibrancy of Weimar culture in the Golden Twenties and the vitality that èmigrès brought to American culture. Lenya's unfinished autobiographical account of her life before Weill is also included, along with a prologue, epilogue, and connective commentary. Immensely touching as well as informative, Weill and Lenya's letters preserve a portrait of a memorable love that somehow survived its turbulent surroundings.

Speak Low (When You Speak Love): The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya

Humor & Entertainment

Lenya, Lotte

Movies

University of California Press

Essays & Correspondence

Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. With Kurt Weill's unforgettable music - one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce jazz to the theatre - it became a popular hit throughout the western world. Published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, this edition features extensive notes and commentary including an introduction to the play, Brecht's own notes on the play, a full appendix of textual variants, a note by composer Kurt Weill, a transcript of a discussion about the play between Brecht and a theatre director, plus editorial notes on the genesis of the play.

Threepenny Opera

BRECHT, BERTOLT

Faber&Faber

Titles are: The Hills of Ixopo * Thousands of Miles * The Little Gray House * Who'll Buy? * Trouble Man * Lost in the Stars * O Tixo, Tixo Help Me! * Stay Well * Cry the Beloved Country * Big Mole * A Bird of Passage.

Lost in the Stars (Vocal Selections): Piano/Vocal/Chords (Rediscovered Broadway)

Arts & Photography

Anderson, Maxwell

Music

Alfred Music

Lost in the Stars

Lost In The Stars

Literary

Literary Licensing, LLC

Titles are: The Hills of Ixopo * Thousands of Miles * The Little Gray House * Who'll Buy? * Trouble Man * Lost in the Stars * O Tixo, Tixo Help Me! * Stay Well * Cry the Beloved Country * Big Mole * A Bird of Passage.

One of Bertolt Brecht's best-loved and most performed plays, The Threepenny Opera was first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble). Based on the eighteenth-century The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, the play is a satire on the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. With Kurt Weill's music, which was one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce the jazz idiom into the theatre, it became a popular hit throughout the western world. This new edition is published here in John Willett and Ralph Manhein's classic translation with commentary and notes by Anja Hartl.

The Threepenny Opera (Student Editions)

Methuen Drama

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny

Suhrkamp Verlag KG

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