The Alabama Song from Mahagonny, rendered by Peter Dizozza

Peter Dizozza introducing the Beyond Brecht Festival of New Plays by The Brooklyn Playwrights Collective, at The Brecht Forum, Sunday, November 4th, 2007.

A piano vocal rendering of a song from the score of Mahagonny, an opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weil which they presciently set in a Pre-Las Vegas United States!

Covers of this song by Jim Morrison and David Bowie show them following in the footsteps of Bobby Darren.

Bobby Darren had already covered Mack the Knife, a song from Brecht and Weil's musical, Three Penny Opera with English Lyric by Marc Blitzstein.

Video by Sam Moree

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[dizozza]

Thank you! I've set some brecht poems elsewhere... Check out The Playwright Song and Two Cranes... Peter

[Chesterton7]

one of mv favorite weird songs. thanks for posting it

[assafy]

i really like it, good job :)