Megan Mullally - Barbara song - Threepenny opera (Weill / Brecht) video free download

David Stevens

This is the Blitzstein version, from the original US production in the fifties. Sung as I recall by Bea Arthur. Other translations are arguably better. It is sung by the pregnant Lucy Brown, daughter of Macheath's war buddy Tiger Brown, now elevated to police commissioner and thoroughly corrupt. The Blitztstein version sanitized the play, eliminating a scene in which Lucy's pregnancy is discussed and cutting a verse about Jenny's abortion (this was the fifties, after all).

DivaTCD

She does character singing so well and it gives me a lot to consider for doing this piece. I adore her acting and singing!

codenamejmc

Beacause it's being performed in an english speaking country? Now yes, if it was the Berliner Ensemble performing the show, you'd want it to be German. But not if it was an American production for Americans. That would just be pointless and most likely offensive to the country and language of origin.

Marina Duran

Her range is spectacular.

Dave Driver

Just been looking for the Julie Covington version of this - that's better than this one.

zhulia

I like the translation better. It was the first one I heard, and after listening to original, I found that all my favorite things were found in the translation... It's a damn good translation.

h0wud0in2

maybe, but tell me one good reason for not singing the original...

Marktheho

they actually wanted and pleaded for an English translation.

Marktheho

but the translation was approved by the lyricist, composer and Lotte Lenya........... so it ran for over 2000 performances here in NYC at the Lys theater in my neighborhood, Greenwhich Village...........

Melizma Tea

Wow, she has a great voice. I knew she sang, but I admit I didn't expect to be impressed. I love her voice - she sounds a bit like Bernadette Peters actually.

Megan Pack

My Name is Megan and for a Local play i am Will be Playing Lucy Brown who Sings this Song!:P

newhere66

simply...stelar, better even than a german version, but voice+expresiion - SIGH !!!

agenttheater5

@evitaperon88 not in the latest broadway revival. and likewise for the pirate jenny song,

agenttheater5

@eggsund then who sang it originally?

Tanya Adamson

@h0wud0in2 If you think about it actually, English is a beautiful language! I mean the way she sings per-pen-dic-u-lar...it flows really well, it's such a soft language. It doesn't matter what language it is in as long as you understand context and emotion.

h0wud0in2

damn english... sing in the language it was written for!!

Tanya Adamson

What a voice

dick simmons

She went to my High school. That's good enough for me.

ohmagaod

@fallenlilyrose It's in Act 2. Lucy sings it while visiting Mack in jail.

showtuneful

Great song by an amazing singer/actress. Megan is the sexiest woman ever on a TV series and the funniest. She is intelligent and a great stage actress. What a lady.

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