Threepenny Opera - Cumming and Lauper
Threepenny Opera - Cumming and Lauper
PitPro2004
Broadway Star Joined: 2/15/04
#1Threepenny Opera - Cumming and Lauper
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
Broadway Star Joined: 6/26/11
#2Threepenny Opera - Cumming and Lauper
Posted: 1/17/12 at 1:42pmNo they never did as the run was too short to permit such an expense.
djb
Stand-by Joined: 5/17/06
#3Threepenny Opera - Cumming and Lauper
Posted: 1/18/12 at 4:09pmThe 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
Broadway Star Joined: 2/15/04
#4Threepenny Opera - Cumming and Lauper
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!"
#5Threepenny Opera - Cumming and Lauper
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
#6Threepenny Opera - Cumming and Lauper
Posted: 1/18/12 at 5:57pmI loved this revival, and was so sad to see it close without a recording.
random person 112
Broadway Star Joined: 6/26/11
#7Threepenny Opera - Cumming and Lauper
Posted: 1/18/12 at 8:24pmYes, AC but this show was strictly a limited run. And people accossiated with the show have said as much.
#8Threepenny Opera - Cumming and Lauper
Posted: 1/19/12 at 11:40amFirst 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
#9Threepenny Opera - Cumming and Lauper
Posted: 1/19/12 at 11:54amIf 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
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