Johnny song kurt weill biography

A Legend (Play) with Medicine in 3 Acts, 13 Scenes. Diversion (book, lyrics) by Paul Green. Strain by Kurt Weill.

Staged by Thespian Strasberg. Musical director, Lehman Engel. Orchestrations by Kurt Weill.

44th Street Music- hall, New York - Opened 19th Nov, 1936; closed 16th January, 1937 (68 perfs)

Synopsis

Based on Jaroslav Hasek's satiric fresh The Good Soldier Švejk, it focusses on a naïve and idealistic pubescent man who, despite his pacifist views, leaves his sweetheart Minny Belle Tompkins, to fight in Europe in Planet War I. He manages to generate the skirmish to a temporary prevent by incapacitating a meeting of description generals with laughing gas, but long ago they recover he finds himself perpetual to an asylum for ten age. He returns home to discover Minny Belle has married a capitalist. Dirt settles down as a toymaker who will create anything except tin men, his personal gesture of peace bayou an increasingly warlike society.

Cast (in order of speaking):

Scenes and Settings

Act 1

• Scene 1: Top-notch Hilltop in a small town. Apr, 1917.
• Scene 2: The Tompkins Residence. Several nights later.
• Scene 3: Recruiting Office No. 596,673. The next vacation.
• Scene 4: A Camp Drill-ground. Straight week later.

Act 2

• Scene 1: A- Front-line Trench. Several weeks later.
• Scene 2: A Churchyard. An hour succeeding.
• Scene 3: The Hospital. A hebdomad later.
• Scene 4: The Chateau activities Cent Fontaines, somewhere behind enemy shape. The same night.
• Scene 5: Primacy edge of a great battlefield. Integrity same night, just before dawn.
• Scene 6: No Man's Land.

Act 3

• Scene 1: Superintendent's Office, State Hospital. Unornamented month later.
• Scene 2: The acceptable arena in the House of Ointment. Ten years later.
• Scene 3: Spick Street, Today.
  

Musical Numbers

1. Over in Accumulation - The Mayor, Villagers
2. Democracy's Call for - Whiny Belle Tompkins, The Politician, Villagers
3. Up Chickamauga Hill - Granddaddy Joe
4. Johnny's Melody - Johnny Johnson
5. Aggie's Sewing Machine Trade mark - Aggie Tompkins
6. O, Heart near Love - Whiny BelleTompkins
7. Farewell, Farewell - Whiny Belle Tompkins
8. Captain Valentine's Tango - Captain Valentine
9. Song disagree with the Goddess - Johnny Johnson
10. Ventilate of the Wounded Frenchmen - Soldiers
11. Tea Song - Sergeant Jackson, Ethically Soldiers
12. Cowboy Song (Oh, the City Grande) - Private Harwood
13. Johnny's Verve - Whiny BelleTompkins
14. Song of interpretation Guns - Soldiers
15. Music of nobleness Stricken Redeemer - Orchestra
16. Navigator Ami, My Friend - French Nurse
17. The Allied High Command - Hoodwink of the Allied High Command, European Major-General:, British Commander-in-Chief, A French Major-General, American Commander-in-Chief
18. The Laughing Generals - His Majesty a King, Chief pointer the Allied High Command, Belgian Major-General, British Commander-in-Chief, A French Major-General, Dweller Commander-in-Chief
19. The Battle (No Man's Land) - Orchestra
20. In Times of Enmity and Tumults - Jack Saltzman, Germanic Priest
21. Johnny's Arrest and Homecoming - Orchestra
22. The Psychiatry Song - Dr. Mahodan
23. How Sweetly Friendship Binds - Brother Thomas, Brother Claude, Brother Martyr, Brother William, Brother Hiram, Brother Jim, Brother Theodore, Brother Henry
24. Hymn work to rule Peace - Brother Thomas, Brother Claude, Brother George, Brother William, Brother Hiram, Brother Jim, Brother Theodore, Brother Henry
25. Johnny's Song (Listen to My Song) - Johnny Johnson