Music + Performance
Tonight: Lola Blau
Friday, March 13, 2009 - Sunday, March 22, 2009This U.S. premiere is an opportunity for NY audiences to savor one of Europe's "big little" musicals and its unforgettable holocaust themes. The piece depicts a rising, charismatic, Dietrich-style cabaret singer who is forced to flee Austria because of her Jewish heritage, taking refuge in the U.S. She makes do with "survival jobs" on Tin Pan Alley until her sensational return to her homeland after the war, when she discovers that nothing much has changed.
The show was actually written in 1971 by Georg Kreisler, a virtuoso composer, satirist, pianist and musical wit whose songs include "Please Shoot Your Husband," "My Psychoanalyst Is an Idiot," "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park," and "Two Old Aunts Dance the Tango." Many of his songs are just as popular with today's generation as they were 50 years ago when he first wrote them.
Fridays & Saturdays at 10:00 pm; Sundays at 5:30pm
$15; box office (212) 475-7710
$15; box office (212) 475-7710
