CD of the Week


I'm so glad that the 1976 Public Theatre Revival of The Threepenny Opera is finally available on CD. Of course, it's still almost impossible to buy if you don't shop online and even the usual online sites don't carry it. (Amazon.com, however, does have it on MP3.)

The play stars Raul Julia as Mac the Knife (yes, the same gent who inspired the song of the same title), Ellen Greene as Pirate Jenny, Caroline Kava as Polly Peachum and Blair Brown as Lucy Brown. The play is set in Victorian London but this version uses less euphemisms than the more well-known 1954 Broadway version. And if you ever have the opportunity to compare, for example, this CD's version of "Barbara Song" to the 1954 version, you'd understand why that's a good thing.

I used to listen to this record in college but it's been unavailable in any form save vinyl for so long that I was beginning to think that it would never be available on CD.

Gracias a Dios that I was proved wrong about that.