The past tenants include Pacific Overtures, the Tony award-winning production of Assassins and the Tony award-winning production of Cabaret which had its final performance on the, after a six year run.If you put on a production of Romeo and Juliet in Verona, how much does anyone care that the action is ostensibly set in the streets around them? My guess is that we understand when a setting is a stand in for ‘far far away’, and are happy to displace it in our heads to another similarly foreign location for the duration of the show. The Threepenny Opera will be the fifth musical at Studio 54 since Roundabout Theatre Company purchased the venue that will serve as their new home for musical theatre productions and special theatrical events. The last Broadway revival began at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 5th, 1989. The Threepenny Opera premiered on Broadway at the Empire Theatre on April 13, 1933. In 2001, he played ï¿½Ottoï¿½ in Joe Mantelloï¿½s production of Noï¿½l Cowardï¿½s Design For Living. For the Roundabout Theatre Company, he has directed Chekhovï¿½s Three Sisters and Clare Boothe Luceï¿½s The Women.Īlan Cumming returns to Roundabout Theatre Company where he most famously made his Broadway debut and won a 1998 Tony Award for his role as the ï¿❞mceeï¿½ in Kander & Ebbï¿½s Cabaret. Scott Elliott is an Associate Artist of the Roundabout Theatre Company. Based on Elizabeth Hauptmannï¿½s German translation of John Gayï¿½s eighteenth-century The Beggarï¿½s Opera, The Threepenny Opera thrusts the audience into the seedy underworld of Mack the Knife, a dapper criminal and his wry love affair with Polly Peachum. The Threepenny Opera serves up a dark satire of ï¿½respectableï¿½ society, with dashing thieves, saucy prostitutes, and lingering melodies. The design team for The Threepenny Opera includes Derek McLane (sets), Isaac Mizrahi (costumes) and Jason Lyons (lights). Jim Dale last appeared at the Roundabout Theatre Company in 1985 as ï¿❛riï¿½ in Peter Nicholï¿½s A Day in the Death of Joe Egg.Īdditional cast members will be announced shortly. Tony award winner Jim Dale will return to Broadway after nine years, having last received a Best Actor Tonyï¿½ nomination for Candide in 1997. The Threepenny Opera will open on the following previews from the 24 Mar. Roundabout Theatre Company has commissioned Wallace Shawn to translate and adapt the original German book and lyrics for the production.

Peachum) will join Alan Cumming (Macheath), Edie Falco (Jenny) and Nellie McKay as (Polly) in a new Broadway production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weillï¿½s The Threepenny Opera, directed by Scott Elliott on Broadway at Studio 54. The Roundabout Theatre Company have announced that Jim Dale (Mr.

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