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Starstruck

Friday, 3rd July 2009


It has been a good couple of weeks for Kurt Weill fans. At the South Bank conductor Charles Hazlewood [right], the BBC Concert Orchestra and soloists led by Clive Rowe [left] gave a stirring performance of the composer's last Broadway show, "Lost in the Stars". Based on Alan Paton's novel, "Cry, The Beloved Country", the self-styled "musical tragedy" still seems astonishingly contemporary. The choral passages are just stunning. Hazlewood's staged reading, directed by Jude Kelly, was only on for two nights, but the iPlayer version is around for a little longer. Hardcore Weillists might also want to catch the Lost Musicals team's bare-bones revival of his very first Broadway production, "Johnny Johnson", currently running at the Sadler's Wells studio theatre. It's not a classic by any means - Paul Green's book is a one-dimensional slab of anti-war sloganeering - but it has its moments.

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