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To Those Who Come After:

The Voice of Bertholt Brecht

TO THOSE WHO COME AFTER   Brecht, 1937 / Eisler, 1958
ON POOR B.B   Brecht, 1921
FOR SINGING IN PRISON (from The Mother)   Brecht, 1931 / Eisler, 1931
THERE'S NOTHING QUITE LIKE MONEY
    (from Round Heads and Peaked Heads)
  Brecht, 1936 / Eisler, 1936
TO THE LITTLE RADIO   Brecht, 1940 / Eisler, 1942
COMING TO CALIFORNIA   Brecht, 1941 / Eisler, 1943
HOTEL ROOM, 1942   Brecht, 1940 / Eisler, 1942
from The Exception and the Rule
      AS I DID NOT SLEEP
      HERE IS THE RIVER
      SICK MEN DIE
      IN THE WAKE OF THE ROBBER HORDES
      SUCH IS THE RULE
      FOR IN THE SYSTEM
  Brecht, 1931 / Wolpe, 1961
A SAYING   Brecht, 1939
BALLAD OF MARIE SANDERS
      (from Private Life of the Master Race)
  Brecht, 1935 / Eisler, 1935
EASTER SUNDAY   Brecht, 1938 / Eisler, 1942
DO NOT CRY, MARIE
      (from Private Life of the Master Race)
  Eisler, 1936
TANK BATTLE / PANZERSCHLACHT   Brecht, 1941 / Eisler, 1942
SONG OF A GERMAN MOTHER   Brecht, 1942 / Eisler, 1943
from Mother Courage
      BATTLE HYMN
      SONG OF MOTHER COURAGE
      THE FISHWIFE AND THE SOLDIER
      THE GREAT CAPITULATION
      SONG OF THE WISE AND GOOD
      SOLDIERS' SONG
      CRADLE SONG
  Brecht, 1938-9 / Milhaud, 1959
THESE ARE INDEED DARK TIMES   Brecht, 1938
IN THE FLOWER GARDEN   Brecht, 1953 / Eisler, 1955
BURNING AND NEVER GOING COLD   Brecht, 1939 / Eisler, 1954
ON SUICIDE (from The Good Woman)   Brecht, 1939 / Eisler, 1942
MASK OF WICKEDNESS   Brecht, 1940 / Eisler, 1942
SURABAYA JOHNNY (from Happy End)   Brecht, 1929 / Weill, 1929
BALLAD OF THE FANCY MAN
      (from Threepenny Opera)
  Brecht, 1929 / Weill, 1928
HERE IT COMES THE HAPPY ENDING
      (from Threepenny Opera)
  Brecht, 1930 / Eisler, 1928

Credits

ILLUSION THEATRE
Michael H. Robins & Bonnie Morris, Producing Directors

English Text and Lyrics by
Eric Bentley

Music by
Hanns Eisler, Darius Milhaud,
Kurt Weill & Stefan Wolpe

Conceived by
David Harris

Directed by
Michael H. Robins

Performed by
David Harris
Manon Gimlette
Craig Johnson, Pianist

Lighting Design, Darren McCroom
Technical Director/Set Design, Steven E. Reiser
Production Stage Manager, Stephanie RoseBerger
Stage Manager, Michelle K. Hansen
Interns, Lael Veldhouse, Holly A. Sotffels Doty, Marc Karcz, Kristin N. Reiter, David Kloaker

 


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