Original Broadway Cast, 1947 (Columbia/Sony) Composer Kurt Weill and lyricist Langston Hughes set Elmer Rice's 1929 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Street Scene to music as an opera, although there's plenty of dialogue in it. The music underscores the talk very much as if Weill had scored a film instead of a play. A paean to the … Continue reading Street Scene →
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 09:40AM on August 21, 2015