Street Scene

The University of Tennessee School of Music presents the UT Opera Theatre in Kurt Weill’s STREET SCENE, at 8:00 p.m., Friday, November 14; 2:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m., Saturday, November 15; and 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 16, at the Bijou Theatre located at 803 S. Gay Street, Knoxville TN.

The opera will be directed by Carroll Freeman and conducted by James Fellenbaum. STREET SCENE is a Broadway musical or, more precisely, an “American opera” by Kurt Weill (music), Langston Hughes (lyrics), and Elmer Rice (book), based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by Rice. For his work on STREET SCENE, Weill received the first Tony Award for Best Original Score.

The play takes place on the doorstep of a tenement on the East Side of Manhattan on two brutally hot days in 1946. The story focuses on two plotlines: the romance between Rose Maurrant and her neighbor Sam Kaplan; and on the marital affair of Rose’s mother, Anna, which is eventually discovered by Rose’s irritable father, Frank. The show portrays the ordinary romances, squabbles and gossips of the neighbors, as the mounting tensions involving the Maurrant family eventually build into a tragedy of epic proportions.

Cast

Anna Maurrant...........Teresa Alzadon,Mieke Rickert
Frank Maurrant..........John Arnold
Rose Maurrant...........Jessica Cates, Paige Patrick
Sam Kaplan..............Jonathan Murphy, Jonathon Subìa

Synopsis

Two days in the life of a New York apartment building. The story focuses on Anna Maurrant and her family. She is disappointed in 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 and her lover when he unexpectedly walks in on them together. Rose then leaves the tenement and her boyfriend Sam Kaplan behind to make a new, independent life for herself.

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We would also like to thank:

• The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music
• UT Cultural Affairs Board

For further information, please call the School of Music publicity office at (865) 974-8935.

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