Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill’s classic operetta, translated and adapted by Wallace Shawn.

“The Threepenny Opera” originally opened on B’way at the Empire Theatre on Apr 13, 1933 under the auspices of John Krimsky & Gifford Cochran.  Francesco Von Mendelssohn staged the production, and the cast featured Robert Chisholm (Macheath), Marjorie Dille (Jenny) & Steffi Duna (Polly).  It has subsequently had five B’way revivals, the last of which starred Sting as Macheath and opened at the Lunt-Fontanne on Nov 5, 1989.