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One correction about Tony Azito. He played the Sergeant of the police in the NYSF's The Pirates of Penzance. In Threepenny, he played, if memory serves, Peachum's assistant. Also a dancing role, and I just read on Tony's Wikipedia site that it was created especially for Tony by Foreman. Very cool about Ellen Greene singing through the mikes going down. Brava!

I know I've read some interesting stuff on Richard Foreman directing Brecht, i.e., Threepenny, including either an interview that he gave or his own writing on the subject, and as I think that was in the last few years, it must have been on the internet, so go forth and google if you haven't already. As for visual documentation, my Mom has one or two photos of the show, I think both with Philip Bosco rather than Raul Julia playing Macheath, but no wide shots. I remember there being very spars...

Oh MY God! Thank you SO much for this. J.J. Peachum was played by my father, C.K. Alexander, in this production, so you can imagine how unhappy I have been with the fact that this has never been released on CD. Over the years, I hunted down the LP and bought copies for my brothers and sisters, but folks just don't have record players anymore, so this will be the first chance that most of them have had in years to hear this show again, and for my nieces and nephews, well, nevermind. I'm not ev...