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The Threepenny Opera [1954]

Opening date
March 10, 1954
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"The Threepenny Opera" was the second production of Die Dreigroschenoper in English. The English adaptation of book and lyrics was by Marc Blitzstein. The opening night cast included Beatrice Arthur (Lucy), Lotte Lenya (Jenny), Scott Merrill (Mack), Gerald Price (Streetsinger), Charlotte Rae (Mrs. Peachum), and Jo Sullivan (Polly). It opened off-Braodway at the Theater de Lys on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village (NY) and played for 96 performances. Another show had already been booked into the theater, forcing the run to end. A year and four months after it closed in 1954 pressure from the press and public caused the Theater de Lys to bring it back. It reopened on September 20, 1955 with largely the same cast. The show did not close until December 17, 1961, at the time a record-setting run for a musical in New York. Over 750,000 spectators saw it and over 700 actors took part.

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Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein Covered by Raúl Juliá & Bill Nighy
Originally by Harald Paulsen mit Orchesterbegleitung REC,REL, Harald Paulsen & Kurt Gerron PRF
Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein Originally by (unknown), (unknown)
Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein Covered by Raúl Juliá
Originally by Harald Paulsen mit Orchesterbegleitung REC,REL, Harald Paulsen PRF
Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein Covered by (9 artists)
Originally by Carola Neher REL, Roma Bahn PRF
Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein Originally by Harald Paulsen
Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein Covered by Raúl Juliá
Originally by Harald Paulsen
Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein Covered by (3 artists)
Originally by Harald Paulsen mit Orchesterbegleitung REL, Harald Paulsen & Lotte Lenya PRF
Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein Originally by Erich Ponto & Rosa Valetti
Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein Covered by (3 artists)
Originally by Lotte Lenja und Erika Helmke - Begleitung: Lewis Ruth Band - Dirigent Theo Mackeben REL, Roma Bahn & Kate Kühl PRF
Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein Covered by Raúl Juliá & Rachel Robertson
Originally by Carola Neher, Kurt Gerron und die Dreigroschenband REL, Harald Paulsen & Roma Bahn PRF
Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein Covered by (2 artists)
Originally by Erich Schellow, Johanna von Koczian und Mitglieder des Tanzorchesters des "Sender Freies Berlin" Ltg. Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg REL, Harald Paulsen & Roma Bahn PRF, Roma Bahn
Bertolt Brecht, Johann Christoph Pepusch, Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein Covered by Richard Harris [IE]
Originally by Erich Ponto & Rosa Valetti
Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein Covered by (29 artists)
Originally by Carola Neher mit Orchester REL, Roma Bahn PRF
Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein Covered by (3 artists)
Originally by Hedy Fassler - Chor und Kammerensemble des Orchesters der Wiener Volksoper REL, Lotte Lenya PRF
Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein Covered by (6 artists)
Originally by Dreigroschenoper-Band REL, Harald Paulsen & Lotte Lenya PRF
Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein Covered by (237 artists)
Originally by Harald Paulsen mit Orchesterbegleitung REL, Kurt Gerron PRF
Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein Covered by Richard Harris, Julie Walters, Rachel Robertson & Roger Daltrey
Originally by Roma Bahn, Erich Ponto & Rosa Valetti
Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein Covered by Julia Migenes, Raúl Juliá, Richard Harris, Julie Walters & Bill Nighy
Originally by Harald Paulsen, Lotte Lenya, Roma Bahn, Erich Ponto, Kurt Gerron & Rosa Valetti
Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein Covered by (2 artists)
Originally by (unknown), Erich Ponto
Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein Originally by (unknown)
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