Threepenny Opera questions — Page 2

"I think it is a foolish idea to interpolate Surabaya Johnny into Threepenny. The song was written for Happy End. Would you include a song from The King and I in The Sound of Music or a song from Company in Into The Woods?"

I think Weill is the easiest composer to interpolate songs from other songs, because there is an underlying thematic element that connects all his shows - "Company" and "Into the Woods" are diametrically opposed, although.....


Imagine the Witch singing "Sorry Grateful" to Rapunzel instead of "Stay With Me" or "Agony" replaced with "Have I Got a Girl For You". And definitely Maria could sing "Hello Young Lovers" to Liesl after "Sixteen Going on Seventeen". And Anna could definitely sing "I Have Confidence" before meeting the King of Siam.

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Actually, when we did it and used the Domnar Script it Polly says that she will entertain them by doing an impression of someone she saw and she asks someone to ask her "Well, Jenny when's your ship coming in"

I always thought it was supposed to be Jenny.

"I think it is a foolish idea to interpolate Surabaya Johnny into Threepenny. The song was written for Happy End. Would you include a song from The King and I in The Sound of Music or a song from Company in Into The Woods?"

When "State Fair" was produced on Broadway, they interpolated the song "Man I Used to Be" from Pipe Dream.

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Every Kiss Me Kate revival interpolates songs, too, doesn't it?

"Every Kiss Me Kate revival interpolates songs, too, doesn't it?"

The revival with Mazzie and Mithchell interpolated one song (the same one that had been used, to better effect, in the film), but traditionally this is one Porter show in which songs had not been interpolated.

Yes, that stuff in which Polly tells the men to ask her those questions is in Brecht's script.