Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (2007)

- 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

Director: John Doyle

Casts

	Patti LuPone as Leocadia Begbick
	Audra McDonald as Jenny Smith
	Anthony Dean Griffey as Jimmy McIntyre
	Robert Wörle as Fatty The Bookkeeper
	Donnie Ray Albert as Trinity Moses
	John Easterlin as Jack O'Brien
	Mel Ulrich as Book Account Bill
	Natasha Flores as Maidens of Mahagonny
	Priti Gandhi as Maidens of Mahagonny
	Rena Harms as Maidens of Mahagonny
	Catherine Ireland as Maidens of Mahagonny
	Sharmay Musacchio as Maidens of Mahagonny
	Karen Vuong as Maidens of Mahagonny
	Derek Taylor as Toby Higgins
	Mark Kelley as A Man
	James Conlon as Self - Conductor

Crew