Lotte Lenya

Lotte Lenya news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Lotte Lenya performances. According to Wikipedia: Lotte Lenya, was a Tony Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated singer and actress, born Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer, in Vienna, Austria. She is best known for her performance as Jenny in Kurt Weill's and Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, and some other Brecht-Weill plays. Her role as Vivien Leigh's earthy friend Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales in the screen version of Tennessee Williams' The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone brought Lenya an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress. Her portrayal of the villainous Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia with Love brought her additional fame. Her name is known by many from a mention in the Louis Armstrong version of the song "Mack the Knife".

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The Threepenny Opera (Die 3 Groschen-Oper, 1931)

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The Threepenny Opera (Die 3 Groschen-Oper, 1931) Director : G. W. Pabst By Marilyn Ferdinand Among the giants of theatre, I have always considered Bertolt Brecht to be at the top of the heap. A gifted poet, Brecht created a new theatre for a new, more threatening time, one that refused to allow audiences to melt into a naturalistic setting and identify sympathetically with the lives and morals of the play’s immoral characters. In the Germany that would soon succumb to blind devotion to the myth of the Übermensch peddled by a genocidal dictator, Brecht’s unreal realism and his and music collaborator Kurt Weill’s ... Read Full Story

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THEATER REVIEW: THE THREEPENNY OPERA

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Mack the Knife is back in town! By Ed Rampell How many pop fans know that Bobby Darin’s Ballad of Mack the Knife, which was a huge 1959 hit towards the end of the Blacklist/McCarthyism era, was actually co-written by a Marxist? Now, playwright and lyricist Bertolt Brecht’s play The Threepenny Opera , with music by Kurt Weill and starring Jeff Griggs as Macheath, is, like Mack the Knife himself, back in town, at the International City Theatre. So strap on those shoes and rush down to Long Beach to see the most polished production this reviewer has had the good fortune to enjoy ... Read Full Story

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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)

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Based on a Tennessee Williams novella, this lovingly filmed but rather (in the end) depressing movie has many points of interest. Vivien Leigh, in her penultimate film role, stars as a famous but aging actress who has given up her career after the death of her rich, protective husband. She settles in a gorgeous flat in Rome and tries to fill her lonely days with whatever she can. A young and rather beautiful gigolo, played by Warren Beatty in only his second film role (and half Leigh's age), is foistered upon her by an impoverished and grotesque aristocratic pimp played, in her first English-speaking film, by the ... Read Full Story

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Today In Theatre History : MARCH 2

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1900 Composer Kurt Weill is born today in Dessau, Germany. He will compose the score for Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera , and Mahagonny . Among his many works, Lady in the Dark will be his first Broadway success. Weill’s collaboration with Ira Gershwin on this 1941 production starring Danny Kaye and Gertrude Lawrence will run 467 performances. Read Full Story

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Teresa Stratas sings Kurt Weill's "Youkali"

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I wore this out when I had the old vinyl. I had never seen the video until it was posted on YouTube. Teresa Stratas was handpicked by Weill's widow Lotte Lenya to carry on the tradition of his music and you can see why with this mesmerizing performance. Read Full Story

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