BERLIN TO BROADWAY WITH KURT WEILL at WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY

The life and times of one of the most extraordinary artists of the twentieth century is the subject of this remarkable musical voyage through the career of composer Kurt Weill. brbrWeill's greatest theatre works are presented in a fluid blend of song and story spanning twenty eventful years, from Von Hindenburg and Hitler in Germany, where Weill became an outstanding theatre composer by the time he was thirty, to Roosevelt and Truman in the U.S. where he became a renowned citizen of his adopted country and a master of the Broadway musical. Along the way, he created some of the most popular and daring musical theatre pieces of his day, collaborating with a dazzling array of literary giants, including Bertolt Brecht, Langston Hughes, Maxwell Andersen, Alan Jay Lerner and Ira Gershwin, and blurring the boundary between "serious" and "popular" music.

Authors

• Alan Jay Lerner
• Arnold Weinstein
• Bertolt Brecht
• Gene Lerner
• George Tabori
• Ira Gershwin
• Jacques Deval
• Kurt Weill
• Langston Hughes
• Marc Blitzstein
• Maxwell Anderson
• Michael Feingold
• Ogden Nash
• Paul Green