Reply to "Hattie Hathaway in Threepenny Opera"

andreabicsottiSage

1954! The Age Of McCarthyism! I was also reading the liner notes of the Blitzstein version, and they had to alter some of the lyrics that he translated. Another example of censorship, and I bet that they wouldn't have got played on the radio as much as they did. The "Mack the Knife" that was made popular through the like of Bobby Darin, Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald was Blitzstein's. I love Lenya too... and she also did Cabaret in the original cast, she played Fraulien Schnider! And there are many translations of the play, some with lots of profanity, which I love. Brecht was very blunt, direct and straight to the point. Have you readi Brecht's poetry, by any chance?

6/22/069:54 PM

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