Ghostlight
2007
LoveMusik
About This Album
The term "jukebox musical" was used in the early years of the 21st century to refer to a type of Broadway show in which the score consisted of long-familiar songs, often from the pop realm, with a jury-rigged story written to accommodate them, the model being Mamma Mia!, which employed the music of ABBA. LoveMusik, which ran on Broadway for a while during 2007, might be called a jukebox musical in this sense, although, unlike that show and some others, the music derived from an actual Broadway composer, not a pop act. LoveMusik was a musical stage biography of composer Kurt Weill and his on-again, off-again wife, actress/singer Lotte Lenya, inspired by the 1997 book of the couple's correspondence, Speak Low (When You Speak Love), edited by Lys Symonette and Kim Kowalke. The book of the musical was written by Alfred Uhry, who also went through Weill's catalog of music to pick songs. While maintaining the broad outlines of the Weill/Lenya story, Uhry did not feel constrained to literal accuracy, and he paid no attention to chronology with respect to the songs, which might come from years before or after the time in which they were performed in the show. (To overcome the stylistic differences between Weill's German and American periods, new orchestrations were written by Jonathan Tunick.
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