Mad Jenny's LOVE UND GREED Returns to Pangea for One Night! 10/24
Mad Jenny reprises "Love und Greed" at Pangea on Monday October 24th at 9:30PM after a successful spring run. Mad Jenny's show is a richly appointed theatrical Weimar vaudeville filled with decadent enjoyment for the ears and eyes, shot with strong doses of fear, ennui and protest perfect for these times, called:
"smart and theatrically savvy" by Stephen Holden of the NY Times
"thoughtful, piercing and pretty darn fun" - Huffington Post
" Mesmerizing" - Time Out
"the show was all highlights. When it was over, no one wanted to stop clapping, or even let her go. (...) People will want to see this again and again." - Trav S D Travalanche
Get Tickets Early bird tickets for $15 still available, otherwise $20 at the door plus food and drink.
Created by Jenny Lee Mitchell with coaching by performance coach Gregg Goldston, "Love und Greed" features Maria Dessena on accordion and piano, Ric Becker on trombone, and Marty Isenberg on bass. The arrangements are by Dessena. Guests include the fabulous Miss Ekaterina (of Cirque du Soleil fame) as Anita Berber and other secret guests to be announced soon!
Blending songs from the Weimar underground with covertly inserted modern repertoire, Mad Jenny and The Society Band whip up a post-modern Weimar cabaret/vaudeville that is not so much an escape as it is a time travel to an alternate NYC nightlife by way of Berlin in the 1920s.
Participants in the Berlin underground cabaret movement of the '20s and '30s -- artists like Mischa Spoliansky, Brecht/Weill, Brecht/Eissler, and Claire Waldoff, who were either exiled or interred by the regime and who could not escape soon enough -- are given new, hauntingly sexy voice by Mad Jenny and her collaborators. These political progressives, feminists, and gender/sexuality pioneers wrote about gay-pride, abortion, and feminism, not to mention racial hatred and the inexorable march of the war machine.
A native New Yorker, Jenny Lee Mitchell has lived and performed in Vienna, Munich, Hamburg and Berlin. Versed in clowning, operetta, musical theatre, and vaudeville from abroad, she is also a director of theatre. She has acted in and/or directed productions at 59E59 Theaters, 3LD, LaMama ETC, and with Untitled Theater Company #61. She also translates many of the songs in the Mad Jenny repertoire (from German to English), including rarities she's uncovered that were created in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
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