Being in NYC the last while, I haven't had much time for the blog. We saw Lovemusic on Broadway today--an excellent show about a subject I didn't think would be that interesting... Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, and Lotte Lenya. It was fascinating, and included a bit of old school stagecraft, and at least three great acting performances. The sets weren't extensive, but were excellent. . .including a Airstream trailer that Brecht lived in in Santa Monica. There was some great stage business around the rise of Adolph Hitler--more or less a shadow puppet dream sequence.
Michael Cerveris as Kurt Weill - Definitely not your typical Broadway leading man, but an acting powerhouse (my friend Kevin tells me he was great when he was last on Broadway in a revival of Sweeny Todd (which Keelin and I saw the first time on Broadway in about 1980. Cerveris won a 2004 Tony Awardas John Wilkes Booth in Assassins, and was nominated a Tony for his Sweeney Todd.
Donna Murphy - who really stole the show, plays Lotte Lenya. She in somking hot with the critics and won a Tony for her Fosca in Stephen Sondheim's Passion.
David Pittu was totally charming as the cranky and misanthropic Bertolt Brecht.
/jack reporting from the Upper West Side, NYC (Hotel Belleclaire)...
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