STREET SCENE - WEILL
In a city that never sleeps, it doesn’t pay to have a dream…
On a stiflingly hot summer’s day in New York, a family is pushed to breaking point. Frank is angry at a world that’s changing too fast, his daughter Rose longs for a better life away from the squalor of the city, and his unhappy wife Anna struggles with a terrible secret that could tear them all apart… As the heat builds, the tension erupts into violence and their lives are changed forever.
Weill’s richly-varied score blends the European operatic tradition with the music of golden-age Broadway. Soaring arias and duets rub shoulders with jazz and the jitterbug, and Puccini shakes hands with Gershwin.
With numbers such as ‘
Lonely House’ and ‘
Moon-faced, Starry-eyed’, it’s little wonder that
Street Scene was awarded Best Original Score at the very first Tony Awards in 1947.
Sung in English
Running time 2hrs 45 minutes
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