The Threepenny Opera cast spotlight!
Jessica De Maria as Lucy
Q. What song from the production gets stuck in your head for days?
A. Selfish, but definitely THE BARBARA SONG. Yes, it’s the one I learned first…but mostly because I find myself quoting it pretty regularly. Oops. Men amiright?
Q. What is your favorite line from the production?
A. I have several marked in my script…from the profound to the hilarious. But I think my favorite has to be:
“WHAT KEEPS A MAN ALIVE? HE LIVES ON OTHERS.
HE LIKES TO TASTE THEM FIRST, THEN EAT THEM WHOLE, IF HE CAN.”
Q. Threepenny has been around for MANY years, what makes this production timeless in your opinion and what do you hope audiences will walk away feeling?
A. Threepenny is timeless because the state of these characters is timeless. The situations they find themselves in, that created them still exist. We just are able to hide them in an easier way. We put a nice pretty, clean duvet cover on it. I want the audience to have their eyes opened, I want them to find themselves in the show and I want them to feel empathy where they didn’t think they could or would.
Shannon Murphy as Dotty
Q. What song from the production gets stuck in your head for days?
A. Instead Of Song
Q. What is your favorite line from the production?
A. “You who dote on our despair and your desire, may learn the simple truth from this our song. Whatever you may do, wherever you aspire. First feed the face, and then talk right and wrong.”
Q. Threepenny has been around for MANY years, what makes this production timeless in your opinion and what do you hope audiences will walk away feeling?
A. Threepenny is timeless because the Brecht wrote it inclusively. He calls upon everyone from the poorest of the poor to the richest of the rich to reflect upon their relationship with morality. I want the audience to laugh and gasp and feel uncomfortable and ask the beggar in all of us how filling morality actually is.
Jed Drummond as Readymoney Matt/Band
Q. What song from the production gets stuck in your head for days?
A. As the pianist for this production, all of the songs are zooming around madly in my head at all times. I must admit a particular love for our leading ladies’ big solo numbers : “Pirate Jenny”, “Barbara Song”, and “Solomon Song”.
Q. What is your favorite line from the production?
A. Macheath : Confidentially, I’m thinking of going into banking exclusively. It’s safer and the takes are bigger.
Q. Threepenny has been around for MANY years, what makes this production timeless in your opinion and what do you hope audiences will walk away feeling?
A. I don’t think that the show is exactly timeless; rather, it continues to be TIMELY because the negative repercussions of capitalism remain, and are only becoming more egregious.
