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Kurt Weill on Stage from Berlin to Broadway
Foster Hirsch Price: $20.00
An account of Kurt Weill’s life in America from 1933, when he arrived from Nazi Germany, to his death in 1950, that concentrates on his Broadway shows and the people he worked with
“Hirsch provides details about each production, including an analysis of its artistic, theatrical, and social components as well as commentary on its public reception
Insights are offered into Weill’s relationships, including his complex marriage to Lotte Lenya, his collaborations with the mercurial Brecht, and his associations with Ira Gershwin, Alan Jay Lerner, Agnes de Mille, and countless others
This absorbing and well-researched work should be especially appealing to those
interested in the history and evolution of musical theatre” ~ Library Journal
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