Description:
Eventide Arts presents
The Threepenny Opera
Book And Lyrics By Bertolt Brecht
Music By Kurt Weill
English Adaptation By Marc Blitzstein
Directed by Ellis Baker with Musical Direction by Maggie Bossi
at The Gertrude Lawrence Stage, Dennis Union Church, 713 Main Street (Rt 6A & Old Bass River Road), Dennis, MA
Showtimes:
May 3 - 20
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sundays at 2:30 PM Tickets: $25.00 - General admission " In 1928, Brecht and Weill turned to John Gay's 18th-Century "The Beggar's Opera" to fashion this biting commentary on bourgeois capitalism and modern morality ("Who is the greater criminal: he who robs a bank or he who founds one?"). Marc Blitzstein's English adaptation led to the play's long 1956 New York run of 2707 performances at the very small Theater de Lys in Greenwich Village."
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