Lotte Lenya

On stage 6 productions, 29 years

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Worked with more than once2 names

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In the literature8 passages

• With all the touring companies, Threepenny Opera amassed a staggering 4,200 performances in Germany in the 1928-29 season, and by 1933 had been seen over 10,000 times across Europe. A film was made by director G.W. Pabst in both German and French. The German version cut half of the music, but included several members of the original cast,…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
• Symonette, Lys, and Kim H. Kowalke, eds. and trans. Speak Low (When You Speak Love): The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Weill, Kurt, and Lotte Lenya. Speak Low (When You Speak Love): The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenye , trans. and ed. Lys Symonette and Kim H. Kowalke. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• There’s the scene where the older couple played by Lotte Lenya and Jack Gilford are in his fruit shop, and someone throws a rock through the window because he is Jewish. They stand there wondering what to do, whether they will have to leave Berlin. And the next thing is the number where the emcee dances with a gorilla. The song ends with…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• The first gesture of the show was one of welcome—a sign repeated in Lotte Lenya’s rooming house welcome to Cliff as a sinister tremolo pulsed in the background—but it was a movement from a mask, as it were, for the cabaret created a face whose demonic grin and painted charm kept revelers up until midnight (as Kerr phrased it) “making fals…ebooks/Garebian, Keith/Making of Cabaret, The - Keith Garebian.txt
• The London album featured Barry Dennen’s obscenely ingratiating Emcee, who sounded richer than Grey’s epicene version. London had no one to match Lotte Lenya or Jack Gilford, but Judi Dench managed to make her acting technique prevail over a mediocre singing voice. Her Sally was intermittently more vulnerable than Jill Haworth’s had been.ebooks/Garebian, Keith/Making of Cabaret, The - Keith Garebian.txt

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