On Apr 13, 8:00 am, Jürgen R. wrote:
schrieb im ...

On Apr 12, 11:10 pm, wrote:
On Apr 12, 10:47 pm, The Historian
wrote:

Not surprising. Gotta build up sympathy for Susie.

The Christian misconstrues the atheist's pure motives.

It is true that I once had a great deal of sympathy for her.

If you want to do something constructive (for a change of pace), write
to and tell him to reissue the 1976 Papp /
NY Shakespeare production of Threepenny.

Why? The translation is painfully bad - not quite as bad as
the Blitzstein translation but still unbearable.


Traddutore, traditore....

Painfully bad? There are some infelicities in the text linked
upthread, but the Manheim/Willett translation was substantially
reworked for B'way (as I discovered between returns last night)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEN/Ral...or_Translation

Don't get hung up on words or music or Raul Julia's inadequacies, but
go with the experience.

There is, however, a superb recording, namely the 1958 Lotte Lenya
production with several excellent Cabaret singers, in particular
Trude Hesterberg.

Lenya is Lenya. I've listened to the Lenya/Thurn Mahagonny (1958?) a
couple times this tax season--in fact, it's sitting on my desk.