Event

The Threepenny Opera

New Muses Theatre Company
presents

THE THREEPENNY OPERA
Book and Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht
Music by Kurt Weill
English Book by Desmond Vesey
English Lyrics by Eric Bentley

August 9 at 7:00
One-Night-Only
Pay What You Can

Tacoma Little Theater | Tacoma, WA
(210 N "I" St.)

The Threepenny Opera proclaims itself "an opera for beggars," and it was in fact an attempt both to satirize traditional opera and operetta and to create a new kind of musical theater based on the theories of two young German artists, composer Kurt Weill and poet-playwright Bert Brecht. The show opens with a mock-Baroque overture, a nod to Threepenny's source, The Beggar's Opera. In a brief prologue following the overture, a shabby figure comes onstage with a barrel organ and launches into a song chronicling the crimes of the notorious bandit and womanizer Macheath, "Mack the Knife." The setting is a fair in Soho (London), just before Queen Victoria's coronation...

Directed by Niclas Olson

Part of the 2015 One-Night-Only Staged Reading Series

*Note: Intended for a mature audience THE THREEPENNY OPERA contains adult language and situations and may be inappropriate for children and sensitive individuals.

Presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.