Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

- 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

Catherine Ireland Maidens of Mahagonny

Sharmay Musacchio Maidens of Mahagonny

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