Goat Hall Productions, San Francisco's Cabaret Opera, Presents Kurt Weill's Happy End

KURT WEILL'S  HAPPY END, COMEDY WITH MUSIC IN THREE ACTS, LYRICS BY BERTOLT BRECHT; PLAY BY ELISABETH HAUPTMANN AKA DOROTHY LANE

LIVE OAK THEATRE, 1301 SHATTUCK AVE., BERKELEY - JUNE 21-24, 2012

JUNE 21, 22, 23 @ 8 PM; JUNE 24 @ 2 PM

Advance Tickets: $15/$20

At the Door: $20/$25

Online ticket sales via PayPal at http://www.goathall.org

Phone Reservations:  707-451-8396

"Robbing a bank's no crime compared to owning one!"

 ..... from the script of Happy End, spoken by "The Fly."

DESCRIPTION OF THE SHOW:

Happy End features a band of irrepressible bad guys with a lady boss called "The Fly," who are trying to survive in hard economic times, and a devout Salvation Army Band, led by the charismatic Hallelujah Lillian, trying to save souls.  This 1929 comic melodrama features some of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's greatest epic theater songs, including "Surabaya Johnny," "Bill's Beerhall in Bilbao," "Song of Mandalay," and the great song of corporate greed, "Hosannah Rockefeller." It's a kind of occupy Chicago circa 1929 (a most auspicious year in America - the Wall Street crash!), written in Berlin on the eve of some very hard times.