Threepenny Revival Song List - Spoilers Maybe

Here's the scene and song list, for anyone who was wondering.

Act One
Overture - Orchestra
Prologue: Song of the Extraordinary Crimes of Mac the Knife - Jenny and Company

Scene 1 - Wardrobe Department of Peachum's Begging Business
Peachum's Morning Hymn - Mr. Peachum
The 'Rather Than' Song - Mr. & Mrs. Peachum

Scene 2 - An Empty Stable
Wedding Song and it's Reprise - Robert, Walter, Jacob and the Gang
Pirate Jenny - Polly
The Army Song - Macheath, Tiger, Polly, and the Gang
Wedding Song second reprise - The Gang
Love Song - Macheath and Polly

Scene 3 - Peachum's Wardrobe Department
The 'No' Song - Polly
Certain Things Make Our Life Impossible - Mr. Peachum, Mrs. Peachum, and Polly

Scene 4 - The Stable
Goodbye - Macheath
Polly's Song - Polly

Intermission

Act Two
Interlude - A Street
The Ballad of the Overwhelming Power of Sex - Mrs. Peachum

Scene 5 - A Brothel in Turnbridge
The Ballad of the Pimp - Macheath and Jenny

Scene 6 - The Prison of the Old Bailey
The Ballad of the Happy Life - Macheath
The Jealousy Duet - Lucy and Polly
How Do Humans Live? - Mac, Mrs. Peachum, Company, and Wallace Shawn's offstage voice

Scene 7 - Peachum's Wardrobe Department
The Ballad of the Overwhelming Power of Sex reprise - Mrs. Peachum
The Song of Inadequacy of Human Striving and its reprise - Mr. Peachum
Solomon Song - Jenny

Scene 8 - Lucy Brown's Bedroom, an Attic in the Old Bailey
Lucy's Aria - Lucy (English with German surtitles and vice-versa)

Scene 9 - The Death Cell
Cry from the Grace - Macheath
The Ballad in which Macheath asks Everyone's Forgiveness - Macheath
Finale - Company

Those titles are mouthfulls!

Updated On: 3/26/06 at 03:27 PM

Nope. 2 acts, 3 hours.

Oh, cool.

I think 2 acts is better suited for today's Broadway audiences.

I agree. Saw the show this afternoon and throroughly enjoyed myself, though I felt act 2 was a great deal more effective/entertaining/interesting. Perhaps this is because of the increased exposure of Cyndi Lauper and the lesser exposure of Nellie McKay. I'm not sure why, but McKay did nothing for me. It seemed to me like a non-actor taking the easy way out of the role by playing terrible acting. The whole character just was so empty of thought to me. A real cop out. Hopefully this will change in time for opening. However the real standout for me was Jim Dale. He brought the house down this afternoon on his final solo and left me amazed with his entire performance. A master class in body and voice work all around for any actor viewing this versatile performer. Hand him the featured actor Tony now.

and why do you put the word "Men" in quotes?? That seems rather insulting.

Manoel is wonderful, but there will be a tight race for that award, and anyone who is nominates will deserve the Tony this year in that category.

He sings it in a full-voiced powerful countertenor (not falsetto), like a 17th century castrato. His range is such that he sings all of Lucy's music in the original keys. It's VERY impressive.

Aside from other considerations, given that the show runs very close to three hours, eliminating a second intermission helps to keep costs down. Overtime costs when a show runs so much as one minute past 11pm can be astronomical and Roundabout, being a not-for-profit, has to be especially conscious of such things. The good news is that by losing one intermission, there's now enough time for "Lucy's Aria" which the vast majority of productions cut for time.

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The production uses the original orchestrations, by Kurt Weill. John Miller is the music coordinator and Kevin Stites is the musical director.

it has been collaboratively orchestrated with the Weill Foundation's supervision and input.

toomeytwopiece, thanks for your response...