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A One-Woman Show with LINN MAXWELL Featuring the Music of KURT WEILL Written and Directed by DAVID TABATSKY a one-woman show with LINN MAXWELL featuring the music of KURT WEILL written and directed by DAVID TABATSKY A WHOLE LOTTE LENYA INSPIRED BY THE LIFE AND LEGEND of Lotte Lenya and the and her subsequent international stage, film, and recording music of Kurt Weill, Alto Productions is pleased to offer A career form a legacy unmatched in the last century. Whole Lotte Lenya, a new, one-woman show featuring the After Weill’s death in 1950, Lenya was driven by one acclaimed concert artist Linn Maxwell, in the role of Lotte overriding obsession: to keep his music before the public so Lenya. Theatrical icon, muse and cham- that his genius would not fade into pion of Kurt Weill’s music, Lenya was obscurity. Her valiant mission is the foremost interpreter of his songs chronicled in detail by Donald Spoto, in after his death. Written and directed by his landmark biography, Lenya: A Life. David Tabatsky, this production runs “Lenya always sustained a deep belief without intermission and is designed for in—and an authentic commitment to—the theatres, schools, libraries, community art of Kurt Weill,” Spoto writes. “He arts centers, senior citizen groups and would never have a more ardent devotee university audiences. than she, and to him and his art, she A Whole Lotte Lenya spotlights always submitted herself and her own stories from Lenya’s life, beginning in place in history.” Vienna, moving through Zurich, Berlin In today’s fast-moving world of and Paris, and culminating with her life media consumption, A Whole Lotte Lenya in America. While paying tribute to PHOTO BY LOTTE JACOBI offers a live, heartfelt portrait of this Lenya, the show treats audiences to the legendary woman, and welcomes all music of Kurt Weill—a rich treasure trove of songs written in generations of theatre and music lovers. English, German and French, including Alabama Song, Pirate Lenya once said, “ I hope Kurt won’t be forgotten too Jenny and I’m a Stranger Here Myself, as well as lesser known quickly in a time that has no time to remember what happened gems, such as Youkali, Bilbao and Berlin im Licht. yesterday.” Lenya’s unique performances in early stage works, such as A Whole Lotte Lenya shares in that sentiment and, like- Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny and The Seven Deadly Sins, wise, we hope that Lenya will never be forgotten. LINN MAXWELL from the Mormon Tabernacle), and with DAVID TABATSKY (author/director) (performer) enjoys Musica Sacra at New York City’s famed has worked in theatre as an actor, variety a rich and varied Lincoln Center. artist, teacher and director. He has written career that’s taken Her operatic career began in Europe ten solo plays, performed throughout the her to the stages of where she sang leading roles in United States, Europe, Israel, Japan and major orchestras, Strassbourg, Lyon, the Netherlands, and Australia. Reviewing his performance at opera companies with the Hungarian State Opera and the the Edinburgh Festival, The Stage in and recital halls Berlin Radio Orchestra. Numerous operatic London, called him, “a supremely skillful across the U.S. appearances in the United States include performer and a fine actor, reaching levels and throughout 25 the San Francisco Opera in the role of which no other comics have matched at countries. She has Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, conducted this Fringe.” performed as a soloist with orchestras in by Placido Domingo. She performed in the Mr. Tabatsky Toronto, Cleveland, Chicago, Seattle, off-Broadway production of The Mother of was awarded Puerto Rico, Kansas City (where she Us All by Virgil Thomson, directed by his Master of appeared with Leonard Bernstein), Mexico Stanley Silverman. Arts in Theatre City and Brooklyn. Ms. Maxwell was a winner of the Joy Education from Ms. Maxwell has appeared with the in Singing Award, enabling her to present Adelphi Uni- Bach festivals of Rochester, New York, her New York recital debut at Lincoln versity in New Oregon (with Helmuth Rilling) and Carmel. Center’s Alice Tully Hall. Of that York, and has After one of her California performances, performance, The New York Times called taught and directed in many professional The San Francisco Chronicle wrote: “Her her “a true mezzo soprano, graced with an and collegiate settings, including Adelphi, technique was flawless, her tone and appealing plangency of timbre.” Bard College, Wesleyan University, phrasing were beautiful.” During tours of South America, Ms. American School of London, Governor’s The founder of the Grand Rapids Bach Maxwell gave recitals and master classes Magnet School of the Arts in Virginia, and Festival, Ms. Maxwell has also appeared with the National Symphony of Peru and die Etage in Berlin. with the Oratorio Society of Washington the Bogota Orquesta Filarmonica. She is His New York affiliations include work at the Kennedy Center in Washington, also a recipient of a National Endowment with The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, D.C., the Pro Arte Chorale at New York’s for the Arts Solo Recitalist Grant. The Bond Street Theatre, the Gene Frankel famed Carnegie Hall, the Oratorio Society As a cabaret artist, Linn Maxwell enjoys Theatre, City Lights Youth Theatre, The of Utah (in a nationally televised presenting her one-woman shows in New Cathedral of St. John the Divine, The performance of Handel’s Messiah broadcast York and around the country. United Nations International School, The New York City Board of Carnegie Hall and Town Hall in New Education and The Big Apple Circus. York as well as throughout the United Linn Maxwell appears Playing a significant role in the States. He has recorded for Westminster, courtesy of the Actors resurgence of the Varieté movement in ABC Paramount, Orion and Centaur Equity Association Germany, Mr. Tabatsky performed record companies. A popular champion of numerous shows to critical acclaim, and twentieth century music, his recordings conceived and directed Kinderzirkus include works by Szymanowski, Bartok Thank You… Taborka at the renowned Tempodrom in and American composers Paul Turok, Our gratitude to those who lent their Berlin. His non-theatrical writing includes John Alden Carpenter, MacDowell and gracious support, and permission to use What’s Cool Berlin, a comic travel guide, Arthur Foote. His most recent CD with textual, musical and visual images for A as well as essays for The Forward, mezzo soprano Linn Maxwell features Whole Lotte Lenya: Dave Stein and Parenting and Checkpoint magazines. songs by Pfitzner and Strauss. Caroline Weber at The Kurt Weill Mr. Tabatsky currently lives in New Mr. Benoit teaches and performs in Foundation; Caroline Kane at European York City with his two children, both the New York area and currently resides American Music Corporation; Yale aspiring acrobats in their own fashion. in Westport, Connecticut. University, Richard Ely, University of New Hampshire’s Lotte Jacobi Photo REGIS BENOIT (piano) holds a Mas- ANDRE EMELIANOFF (cello) is In- Collection, Arbit Blatas, Ted Mitchell, ter's degrees from the Juilliard School of structor of Cello and Chamber Music at David Farneth and Donald Spoto. Music where he was a pupil of Beveridge the Juilliard School in New York City. He Webster and Sergius Kagen. He was twice has appeared as a soloist in London, New SOUND DESIGN BY DAN LEVINE awarded Fulbright grants and studied in York, Japan and Russia. After winning a Paris with Nadia Boulanger, Jeanne-Marie, Fulbright to study in Paris, Mr. Emelian- and Pierre Bernac. He has appeared off instead elected to join the Cleveland throughout Europe as a soloist and Orchestra under George Szell and Pierre For further information about chamber musician while assistant director Boulez, and was later principal cellist of Lotte Lenya and Kurt Weill, of Le Centre de Musique. His tours to the New York Chamber Symphony. He please contact: Colombia included concerto performances has premiered over 70 works as cellist of The Kurt Weill Foundation with the Bogota Orquesta Filarmonica, the Naumburg Award-winning Da Capo 7 E.20th Street solo recitals and TV appearances. Chamber Players. As artist-faculty of the New York, NY, 10003 Both as a soloist and accompanist, Mr. Perlman Program, he has given master 212-505-5240 Benoit has performed in Alice Tully Hall, classes in Israel, Shanghai and Korea. www.kwf.org A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF LOTTE LENYA KAROLINE WILHELMINE BLAMAUER, better known as Lotte Lenya, was born in Vienna in 1898. Following a difficult childhood, which included paternal abuse and adolescent prostitution, she began her performing career as a ballet dancer in Zurich in 1914. Lured by the romantic tug of 1920s Berlin, Lenya moved to Germany, where she eventually abandoned her dance aspirations and began her long and storied collaborations with Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. In 1928, Lenya played Jenny in Threepenny Opera, a role that won her international acclaim. She went on to appear in many more of Weill's works during his lifetime, among them Mahagonny Songspiel, The Eternal Road and The Firebrand of Florence. Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya were married in 1926. Fleeing Germany for Paris in 1933, Lenya and Weill arrived in America in 1935. Lenya went on to play a vital role in the success of the Weill-Brecht collaboration. After Weill's death in 1950, Lenya devoted much of her time and energy to performing and promoting his music. Threepenny Opera, a resounding success on Broadway, earned Lenya a 1956 Tony Award. In adddition to a busy concert schedule and recording career, Lenya appeared in the Broadway productions of Kander and Ebb’s Cabaret, and Brecht on Brecht, directed by Gene Frankel. She also co-starred in the feature films The Roman Spring of Mrs.
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