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September Song, the music of Kurt Weill. Musical Theatre I, Hotel Somerset, 400 Commonwealth Ave. 8:30, Tues-Thurs. 6:30, 9:30, Fri. and Sat. 4, Sun. Beginning March...
...musical numbers by John Kander and Fred Ebb are diluted Kurt Weill and far too numerous. The actors, how ever, are all good. Along with a chorus of sclerotic voluptuaries, Joel Grey as the Kit Kat M.C. puts the cabaret acts across with captivating vulgarity...
...both outlook and musical style, 200 Motels is an updating of the 1931 Kurt Weill-Bertolt Brecht opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Instead of Brecht's thieves and prostitutes, however, Zappa gives us rednecks, rock stars, and groupies who populate a movie set that at times is supposed to pass for a small American town. ("Centerville--A Real Nice Place to Raise Your Kids Up.") The rock stars are, of course, the Mothers of Invention, all of whom portray themselves, except for Zappa, who rarely appears in the film, but is sometimes represented...
Zappa's score for the film utilizes the entire orchestra most of the time and owes quite a lot to Stravinksy and Berg, as well as Kurt Weill. Although much of the music is impressive, particularly such numbers as "This Town is a Sealed Tuna Sandwich" and "Penis Dimension," it is also just plain ugly. The words to these numbers are real funny, if you go in for Zappa's type of humor, but they are frequently inaudible, so it is advisable to listen to the album carefully before seeing the movie...
Unfortunately, most others will know Blitzstein only for his adaptation and translation of the Brecht-Weill "Threepenny Opera." Few others will catch the similarities in "I've Got the Tune" between pretentious Mme. Arbutus (the advocate here of art-for-art's-sake) and Blitzstein's mother-in-law or hear the echo of his wife's suicide when, at Mr. Musiker's most despairing moment, a character jumps out the window to her death. Elite indeed will be the group that sees physical resemblance between Blitzstein and Lehrman, who has cut his hair in order to look like...