Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Overview

- Recorded live at Los Angeles Opera, 1 & 4 March 2007. 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. Director John Doyle melds his Tony Award winning talent with the lyrics of influential playwright Bertolt Brecht and an incomparable score by Kurt Weill. The brilliant cast is led by superstars Audra McDonald, as the tart-with-a-heart `Jenny' and Patti LuPone, who portrays the town's feisty madam. Audra McDonald · Patti LuPone · Anthony Dean Griffey Robert Wörle · John Easterlin · Mel Ulrich Directed for Stage by John Doyle Chorus and Orchestra of the Los Angeles Opera James Conlon, conductor

Cast

Patti LuPone

Leocadia Begbick

Audra McDonald

Jenny Smith

Anthony Dean Griffey

Jimmy McIntyre

Robert Wörle

Fatty The Bookkeeper

Donnie Ray Albert

Trinity Moses

John Easterlin

Jack O'Brien

Mel Ulrich

Book Account Bill

Natasha Flores

Maidens of Mahagonny

Priti Gandhi

Maidens of Mahagonny

Rena Harms

Maidens of Mahagonny