Event

Absolutely Weill Evening

"An Absolutely Weill Evening"

The music of Kurt Weill,with special guest Jenny Scheinman

Parents and supporters of Northcoast Preparatory and Performing Arts Academy are at it again. In their second annual attempt to create an appealing fundraiser for the unique school, the group has chosen to host an evening featuring the music of German composer Kurt Weill, most famously known for "The Ballad of Mack the Knife".

The evening will include Weill's most famous composition and other selections from The Three Penny Opera, along with songs from One Touch of Venus, Street Scene, Happy End, Lost in the Stars, and some of the composers works written to support the American war effort in the 1940s.

Kurt Weill fled Nazi Germany for America in 1935, and became a citizen with his wife Lotte Lenya. He enjoyed a rich career on Broadway and in Hollywood collaborating with artists such as Moss Hart, Ira Gershwin, Ogden Nash, Elmer Rice, Langston Hughes, and Jay Lerner among many others. He died on 3 April 1950. In his obituary Virgil Thomson identified Weill as "the most original single workman in the whole musical theater, internationally considered, during the last quarter century... Every work was a new model, a new shape, a new solution to dramatic problems."

Banding together to create this entertaining and unusual performance are Gregg Moore, Tina Garsen, Virginia L. Ryder, Holly MacDonell, Jacqueline Dandeneau, Jill Petricca, Leira Satlof, Carl McGahan, Tone Haldrup Lorenzen, Nancy Correll, and Annette Gurnee Hull who are delighted to be joined by very special guest artist Jenny Scheinman.

The special event is sponsored by The Arcata Playhouse and Nature's Serving: World Food, Fast! Cocktails, champagne and desserts will be available for sale. All proceeds benefit Northcoast Preparatory and Performing Arts Academy, established in 2000. NPA was granted status as an International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in 2004. In 2011, NPA was ranked as the 12th top public high school in the United States, by the Washington Post.