Street Scene (1946)
American Opera in two acts. Music by KURT WEILL,
Book by Elmer Rice, based on his play of the same name.
Lyrics by Langston Hughes and Elmer Rice.
Synopsis:
One day in the life of a New York apartment building. The story focuses on Anna Maurrant and her family. She is frustrated by her husband and worried about her teenage daughter Rose. She is also having an affair with the milkman. Rose is frustrated by her parents' unhappiness and aspires to better things. Frank Maurrant murders Anna when he learns of her affair. Rose then leaves the tenement, and her boyfriend Sam Kaplan, behind to make a new, independent life for herself.
Table of Contents:
* A Boy Like You
* Ain't It Awful, The Heat?
* Catch Me If You Can
* Don't Forget The Lilac Bush
* Get A Load Of That (K.Weill)
* I Got A Marble And A Star
* I Loved Her Too
* Ice Cream Sextet (Weill K)
* Let Things Be Like The Always Wa
* Lonely House
* Lullaby (Scott)
* Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed
* Remember That I Care
* Somehow I Never Could Believe
* There'll Be Trouble (K.Weill)
* We'll Go Away Together
* What Good Would The Moon Be?
* When A Woman Has A Baby
* Woman Who Lived Up There, The
* Wouldn't You Like To Be On Broadway
* Wrapped In A Ribbon & Tied-Bow
