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.
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Audra McDonald: She mesmerizes listeners "with her remarkable voice, so earthy in its low register, so luminous at the top ... Her bright, burnished soprano is sunlight itself." The New York Times |
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Patti LuPone: She's played some of Broadway's greatest roles - Evita, Norma Desmond, Sweeney Todd's Mrs. Lovett - and now, the great grand-niece of legendary opera diva Adelina Patti promises to make musical theater history in her Los Angeles Opera debut. |
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Anthony Dean Griffey: "If they gave out operatic Oscars, Anthony Dean Griffey would deserve one ... he's a sweet-toned lyric tenor who can also act - a combination as rare as sunshine in Siberia." New York Daily News |
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James Conlon: In his first season as Music Director of LA Opera, Maestro Conlon has proven once again that his “…career is the story of brilliant promise fulfilled brilliantly.” Opera News
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John Doyle: His cutting-edge production of Sweeney Todd was "one helluva show" that stunned New York theatregoers. Now this "ferociously inventive director and designer" (The New York Times) brings his stripped-down musical-theatre-unplugged style to opera for the first time. |
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UNDERWRITER CREDIT
New production made possible by a generous gift from
Laura Donnelley
Additional generous support received from
The James Irvine Foundation and Marvin Antonowsky
PRODUCTION DATES
| Saturday |
February 10, 2007 |
7:30 p.m. |
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| Wednesday |
February 14, 2007 |
7:30 p.m. |
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| Saturday |
February 17, 2007 |
7:30 p.m. |
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| Thursday |
February 22, 2007 |
7:30 p.m. |
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| Sunday |
February 25, 2007 |
2:00 p.m. |
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| Thursday |
March 1, 2007 |
7:30 p.m. |
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| Sunday |
March 4, 2007 |
2:00 p.m. |
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CAST LIST
CREATIVE TEAM
RUNNING TIME
2 hours 23 minutes
PRODUCTION NOTES:
New Production
In English with English supertitles
Artists and dates subject to change.
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