Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Overview

- Recorded live at Los Angeles Opera, 1 & 4 March 2007. Welcome to Mahagonny, where sin is "in" and love is always on sale. This Old West boomtown rises from the desert to become a razzle-dazzle mecca for lust, liberty, and the pursuit of pleasure. Cash is king, poverty is punishable by death, and anything worth doing is worth overdoing. Director John Doyle melds his Tony Award winning talent with the lyrics of influential playwright Bertolt Brecht and an incomparable score by Kurt Weill. The brilliant cast is led by superstars Audra McDonald, as the tart-with-a-heart `Jenny' and Patti LuPone, who portrays the town's feisty madam. Audra McDonald · Patti LuPone · Anthony Dean Griffey Robert Wörle · John Easterlin · Mel Ulrich Directed for Stage by John Doyle Chorus and Orchestra of the Los Angeles Opera James Conlon, conductor

Directed by John Doyle

Top cast

Patti LuPone

Leocadia Begbick

Audra McDonald

Jenny Smith

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Anthony Dean Griffey

Jimmy McIntyre

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Robert Wörle

Fatty The Bookkeeper

Donnie Ray Albert

Trinity Moses

John Easterlin

Jack O'Brien

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Mel Ulrich

Book Account Bill

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Natasha Flores

Maidens of Mahagonny

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Priti Gandhi

Maidens of Mahagonny

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Rena Harms

Maidens of Mahagonny

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Catherine Ireland

Maidens of Mahagonny

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Sharmay Musacchio

Maidens of Mahagonny

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Karen Vuong

Maidens of Mahagonny

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Derek Taylor

Toby Higgins

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Mark Kelley

A Man

James Conlon

Self - Conductor

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