Overview:
Welcome to Mahagonny, where sin is "in" and
love is always on sale. This Old West boomtown rises
from the desert to become a razzle-dazzle mecca for
lust, liberty, and the pursuit of pleasure. Cash is
king, poverty is punishable by death, and anything
worth doing is worth overdoing.
Four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald
stars as Jenny, a tart-with-a-heart, and Broadway legend
Patti LuPone as the town's feisty madam. When Lumberjack
Jim (tenor Anthony Dean Griffey) pays a bargain basement
price for Jenny, he mistakenly falls in love with the
floozy. His ruination and the downfall of Mahagonny
promise a gripping evening of grand entertainment.
Kurt Weill (composer of "Mack the
Knife" and The Threepenny Opera) penned a haunting
score, which crosses over from opera to cabaret to
Broadway. You'll hear ragtime, jazz, raucous music
hall songs and the classic pop hit "Moon of Alabama" (famously
covered by Jim Morrison and The Doors). Music Director
James Conlon conducts. John Doyle, the director of
Broadway's smash hit revival of Sweeney Todd, will
deliver a risqué new production as controversial
as the original one banned by the Nazis in the 1930s.
Nothing succeeds like excess.
