***This Great Books session will meet on Wednesday mornings instead of Tuesday mornings.*** “ Brutal, scandalous, perverted, yet humorous, hummable, and with a happy ending-Bertolt Brecht’s revolutionary masterpiece The Threepenny Opera is a landmark of modern drama that has become embedded in the Western cultural imagination.“-Biblio, Inc. 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.”-Vintage Press “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.
“One of the most important works in the history of musical theater.”. Weiler, Teaching Assistant Professor of German
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