Threepenny Opera - Cumming and Lauper

[PitPro2004]

Threepenny Opera - Cumming and Lauper#1

Posted: 1/17/12 at 1:19pm

Did they ever release a cast album of this show with Alan Cumming and Cyndi Lauper? I'll take a DVD if not.

thx!

"Sticks and stones, sister. Here, have a Valium!"

[random person 112]

Threepenny Opera - Cumming and Lauper #2

Posted: 1/17/12 at 1:42pm

No they never did as the run was too short to permit such an expense.

[once a month]

Threepenny Opera - Cumming and Lauper #2

Posted: 1/17/12 at 3:46pm

Can you imagine?

[djb]

Threepenny Opera - Cumming and Lauper #3

Posted: 1/18/12 at 4:09pm

The good, the bad, and the ugly of Roundabout's production is online on a particular website. I recommend beginning with the search term "Cyndi Lauper in ThreePenny Opera part 1"

[PitPro2004]

Threepenny Opera - Cumming and Lauper #4

Posted: 1/18/12 at 5:39pm

"The good, the bad, and the ugly..."

Yeah, methinks that was going to be my only option. Thanks.

"Sticks and stones, sister. Here, have a Valium!"

[AC126748]

Threepenny Opera - Cumming and Lauper #5

Posted: 1/18/12 at 5:50pm

No they never did as the run was too short to permit such an expense.

The length of the run had nothing to do with it. Shows with much shorter runs have been recorded. Personally, I quite liked a lot of the production, particularly the performances of Lauper, Jim Dale, and Nellie McKay, whom I thought was divine. Wallace Shawn's translation had many head-scratching moments ("A guy can crush all men / beneath his heel / Say I'm a butcher / Others are just veal," anyone?), Cumming seemed ill-at-ease, and the way they handled making Mac and Brown's relationship overtly homoerotic was often laughable, but a lot of the individual performances and a few great staging moments made up for it. Definitely look on YouTube and judge for yourself.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[Scarywarhol]

Threepenny Opera - Cumming and Lauper #6

Posted: 1/18/12 at 5:57pm

I loved this revival, and was so sad to see it close without a recording.

[random person 112]

Threepenny Opera - Cumming and Lauper #7

Posted: 1/18/12 at 8:24pm

Yes, AC but this show was strictly a limited run. And people accossiated with the show have said as much.

[Cearsgk]

Threepenny Opera - Cumming and Lauper #8

Posted: 1/19/12 at 11:40am

First time I ever saw Nellie McKay. Riveting.

"It ain't no myst'ry If it's politics or hist'ry The thing you gotta know is Ev'rything is show biz" - Mel Brooks

[AC126748]

Threepenny Opera - Cumming and Lauper #9

Posted: 1/19/12 at 11:54am

If I recall correctly, McKay's performance was rather polarizing--some (myself included) absolutely loved her, while others thought she was downright awful. She was awarded a Theatre World Award for her performance.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body