Hypothetically Murdered (2015)
In 1931 Shostakovich wrote a full-length score for the Leningrad Music Hall, for a show that involved many of the leading entertainers of the day, as well as dancing girls, a jazz band, a dancing dog, sequences of silent film, simulated air-raids and gas attacks, a lorry, a storm, waiters and waitresses in a luxury restaurant, river nymphs and even a scene in Heaven with the Devil, the Twelve Apostles, the Archangel Gabriel and all the other angels doing a blasphemous knees-up. The show was naturally a momentary scandal and the score soon disappeared. In 1991 Gerard McBurney reconstructed from the surviving sketches a sequence of 21 of the orchestral numbers to make a hilarious sequence of gallops, saucy polkas, marches and schmoozy waltzes.
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Natalia de Froberville as Mashenka Kurochkin |
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Artyom Mishakov as Stopka Kurochkin |
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Sergei Mershin as Beyburzhuyev |
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German Starikov as Angel |
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Anna Pushvintseva-Poistogova as Showy Lady |
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Eugenia Chetverikova as Dancing Couple |
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Denis Tolmazov as Dancing Couple |
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Lyaisan Gisatullina as Barmaid |
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Alexey Budrin as Accordion Player |
| Sound | Dmitri Shostakovich | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Teodor Currentzis | Conductor |
| Crew | Alexey Miroshnichenko | Choreographer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tatiana Noginova | Costume Designer |
| Production | Oleg Levenkov | Producer |
| Lighting | Alexey Khoroshev | Lighting Design |
| Art | Andrey Voitenko | Set Designer |
