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Journal Article
Brecht's Broadway Debut: The Faithful Failure of 3-Penny Opera (1933)
2016
Overview
[...]uncongenial\" is exactly the \"mood\" that comes across in many reviews to a theatrical work that brazenly challenged so much about Broadway's bourgeois values, both aesthetic and political. According to Steve Giles, \"the 1931 version is designed to be read\" while \"the 1928 text bears the imprint of its theatrical realization\" (253).22 Aided, then, by Mendelssohn's direction (borrowed from Engel), Neher's designs, and a script that documented so many aspects of the first performance, Krimksy and Cochran were now prepared to faithfully \"import\" what they trumpeted in advertisements as \"The Continental Success\" (\"Display Ad\"). [...]cutting the scene would have had the effect of favoring the production's \"culinary\" appeals over its ideological provocations. There are a few things that stir men's souls, just a few, but the trouble is that after repeated use they lose their effect. Because man has the abominable gift of being able to deaden his feelings at will, so to speak.
