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Neglected Kurt Weill antiwar musical is given a potent Chicago premiere by Folks Operetta by John Von Rhein

"Johnny Johnson" was Kurt Weill's first work for the American theater, written for New York's Group Theatre in 1936, only three years after the German-Jewish composer managed to escape Nazi Germany and find refuge in the U.S.This "play with songs," with book and lyrics by Paul Green, was not a...

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 01:51PM on June 25, 2017

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