Remember, this was an LA production.

Omg, thank you so much, @pastapants4209!

Toh phir jaake Tarak Mehta dekhlo, Brecht dekhne kiu aye ho?

@@jyotirmoyram9528very true……he won’t understand Brecht 😅

It's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, performed at LA Opera and directed by John Doyle :)

@@Robbie438 What year was this! And THANK YOU SO MUCH for this information!

@@jonathanrio6587 2007

The Rise and Fall of Mahogonny Town by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht.

Not about America per se but probably not unintentional in choosing an American city in one of the songs - it's about the city of Mahoganny, which is intended as a place only for pleasure, being gradually ruined by the people who wanted it to exist in the first place since they're all greedy, murderous, and selfish.

Brecht and Weil did musical plays but opera companies love them so they have become re interpreted as opera composers in retrospect.

I think that Mahoganny is a fictionalized Seattle or Portland.

Is it the same tune as in the opera?

@@anniespencer7879 slightly different but similar!

I didn't until today!

You're learning 😏

It was not an opera. It was a musical. But opera companies have fallen so in love with Brecht that they have kind of stolen him Now I reckon the most common performances of his work are operas.

@@jesseleeward2359 Kind of... there is a fuzzy edge between the two concepts. This is into operetta territory. West Side Story falls into both camps too.

@@jesseleeward2359 Brecht called these “Plays With Music” or something like that

FYI: the first line is "Gents, when I was young," not "Just when I was young".

The only time I was floored by Audra McDonald was in “lady day at Emerson’s”. She was truly an actress in that performance.

Funny though - HRC had nothing to do with what’s gone down in Mahoning County -sure you don’t have her confused with another Gone Girl? This song (in German) was about what Jews were (and would be) forced to do, including fleeing through Cuba, and who would claim to be rescuing them even as they were vikified as libidinous degenerates... but I guess you’d have to know the context... so much is lost in translation, and over time... and satire so often flies above the heads of les animaux qui ne mangent que les porcs-paivre www.sothebys.com/en/articles/a-spectacular-pissarro-that-escaped-theft-by-the-nazis?cmp=email_Daily_Marketing_Email_L19006_A_Spectacular_Pissarro_That_Escaped_Theft_by_the_Nazis_08-Jun-19

Yes, I heard. Trump Mar a Lago was based on Mahagonny City. He wants to pimp out the Whitehouse also.

This is NOT an opera, lol

@@WillnardAnderson What is the name of this show?

It technically is an Opera, actually. It's a political-satirical opera by Kurt Weil and Bertolt Brecht(The same duo that made "The Threepenny Opera"), and it's called "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny", or "Mahagonny" for short. Plus, this is a live performance at the L.A. Opera in 2005. My guess is that this is like L.A. Opera performing Leonard Bernstein's Candide in 2018, with Kelsey Grammar as Voltaire/Dr. Pangloss and Christine Ebersole(Whom Patti Lupone would star together, the year prior, in "War Paint"(by the same team that made "Grey Gardens")) as The Old Lady. Both shows are operatic in nature of the composition and of the singing they require, but they still have moments of straight dialogue scattered throughout the piece. Now having Audra staring in Scott Joplin's self proclaimed "ragtime opera", Treemonisha. THAT'LL Be something!

@@michaelwilliamybarra2409 I was just about to respond but you did it for me!! Lol

I know it's in character but Patti's constant chewing puts me off a bit.

She couldn’t get her own daughter to like her singing voice enough not to cover her ears in pain, a reaction that began in infancy and has apparently persisted into adulthood - her own kids never saw her in “Porgy & Bess” for precisely this reason. Turns out there may be some very interesting and necessary evolutionary/genetic adaptations that account for this, a rather common phenomenon which (as I understand it) is akin to the repulsion we may feel on hearing our own recorded voice, or on the idea of having sex with a sibling or parent or someone of the same gender (or opposite one), which is just as hard-wired, innate, and unmaleable as the DNA code that informs our listening and speaking and the ‘hearing our own voice with our own ears from inside our own head’ which nothing and noone else can take away, except maybe your own mother, if her speaking and singing timbre is (by grace of genetics) the same or almost the same as ours. I’m thinking Audra MacDonald probably can’t splice pig genes into corn on the cob, and wouldn’t qualify for a job at Monsanto except as a Public Relations officer, singing the virtues of Round-Up possibly with a dance sequence paying homage to Martha Graham. Crackerjack plumber or pump girl, I’ll bet she ain’t either - could she fix a Hyundai ignition, or figure out why the yellow light won’t go off? - but she could still take those careers for a spin, if the next few musical audritions don’t go her way. Or she starts hearing her own voice - egads! - the way her children hear it, akin to water torture soup, I mean, mock turtle of course, superior in ever way to the merely authentic, right?

@@davidmehnert6206 you're mad.

@@davidmehnert6206 Jealousy

No, and it makes me jealous

No there isnt. She even sang like Billie Holiday in Lady Day@ the Emerson Bar & Grille

what show is this?

+Marcus Martin The Rise and Fall of the city of Mohogany

I agree to both your opinions but I thought the costume could have been better for the scene. would have worked with far less 'garland'.

@@j.morrison73 the costume is the only thing I don’t like lol