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"RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY" FROM LA OPERA
Premiered on December 17, 2007 on PBS (check local listings)
MUSICAL SELECTIONS
The evening's program was recorded at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, CA, in March 2007.
Composer: Kurt Weill
Librettist: Bertolt Brecht; English translation by Michael Feingold
Conductor: James Conlon
Performers: Audra McDonald (Jenny Smith), Patti LuPone (Leocadia Begbick) Anthony Dean Griffey (Jimmy MacIntyre), Robert Wörle (Fatty the Bookkeeper), John Easterlin (Jack O'Brien), Mel Ulrich (Bank Account Bill), Donnie Ray Albert (Trinity Moses), Derek Taylor (Toby Higgins), Steven Humes (Alaska Wolf Joe), Mark Kelley (A Man), and Natasha Flores, Priti Gandhi, Rena Harms, Catherine Ireland, Sharmay Muscacchio, and Karen Vuong (Maidens of Mahagonny)
ACT 1
"Hey, we gotta keep going!"
Patti LuPone, Robert Wörle, and Donnie Ray Albert
"Oh show us the way to the next whiskey bar" ("Alabama Song")
Audra McDonald with Natasha Flores, Rena Harms, Priti Gandhi, Catherine Ireland, Sharmay Muscacchio, and Karen Vuong
"We live in giant cities"
Robert Wörle, Donnie Ray Albert, and Male Chorus
"Off to Mahagonny!"
Anthony Dean Griffey, John Easterlin, Mel Ulrich, and Steven Humes
"When you're a stranger in the city"
Patti LuPone, Anthony Dean Griffey, John Easterlin, Mel Ulrich, Steven Humes, with Natasha Flores, Rena Harms, Priti Gandhi, Catherine Ireland, Sharmay Muscacchio, and Karen Vuong
"I've learned in my trade when you meet a man for the first time"
Audra McDonald and Anthony Dean Griffey
"Fatty and Moses!"
Patti LuPone, Robert Wörle, and Donnie Ray Albert
"Jimmy, why are you running away?"
Anthony Dean Griffey, John Easterlin, Mel Ulrich, and Steven Humes
"That's what I call 'Eternal Art'"
Patti LuPone, Robert Wörle, Donnie Ray Albert, Audra McDonald, Anthony Dean Griffey, John Easterlin, Mel Ulrich, and Steven Humes
"How frightful! A disaster!"
Patti LuPone, Robert Wörle, Donnie Ray Albert, Audra McDonald, with Natasha Flores, Rena Harms, Priti Gandhi, Catherine Ireland, Sharmay Muscacchio, Karen Vuong, and Male Chorus
"Alabama Song"
Audra McDonald and John Easterlin
"Stand bravely, Brothers"
Patti LuPone, Robert Wörle, Donnie Ray Albert, Audra McDonald, Anthony Dean Griffey, John Easterlin, Mel Ulrich, Steven Humes, and Male Chorus
ACT II
"Hurricane approaching Atsena at 120 miles per hour"
Chorus
"First, don't forget to stuff your faces"
John Easterlin and Anthony Dean Griffey
"Second comes the loving match"
Patti LuPone and Male Chorus
"Here is the place, gents! The match of the week!"
Steven Humes, Robert Wörle, Mel Ulrich, Anthony Dean Griffey, Donnie Ray
Albert, and Chorus
"Bottoms up, friends. Have one on me"
Anthony Dean Griffey, Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Mel Ulrich, Donnie Ray Albert, Robert Wörle, and Chorus
"Gents, when I was young, my mother painted my future completely black"
Audra McDonald
ACT III
"When the sky turns brighter"
Anthony Dean Griffey
"Everyone step up and buy your tickets!"
Donnie Ray Albert, Patti LuPone, Robert Wörle, Anthony Dean Griffey, Mel Ulrich, Audra McDonald, and Chorus
"There is no money in this land"
Audra McDonald, Patti LuPone, Robert Wörle, Mel Ulrich, Donnie Ray Albert, and Derek Taylor
"Say, hello! Can't you see they're saying hello to you?"
Donnie Ray Albert, Anthony Dean Griffey, Audra McDonald, and Chorus
"One morning when the sky was gray"
Robert Wörle, Donnie Ray Albert, Audra McDonald, Mel Ulrich, Derek Taylor, and Chorus
"Still, we only built this Mahagonny, because the world is so rotten"
Patti LuPone, Robert Wörle, Donnie Ray Albert, Audra McDonald, Mel Ulrich, Derek Taylor, and Chorus
Top banner photo: Cast of ''Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny''
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photo: Donnie Ray Albert, Patti LuPone, and Robert Wörle
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