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Love Life Comes Alive! Two Major Productions Poise for Premiere

Dec. 20, 2024

For the first time, seventy-seven years after its opening on Broadway, Weill and Alan Jay Lerner’s Love Lifewill enjoy two productions in the same season. A special feature in the latest issue of the Kurt Weill Newsletter profiles the respective productions, by Opera North in the UK and Encores! in New York City.

Opera North of Leeds, a company with a long and strong track record presenting both Weill and American musicals, gives three staged concert performances from January 16-18, 2025. Conductor James Holmes, Kurt Weill Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award recipient, will again team up with director Matthew Eberhardt, who staged Street Scene for the company in 2020. BBC Radio 3 will broadcast the performance.  A CD release, the first of the entire score of Love Life, as presented in the award-winning critical edition, will follow on Capriccio.  The production will also be filmed for possible release on a cable platform.


"This is the Life" from Love Life, sung by Quirijn de Lang, with Jim Holmes at the piano

Encores!, that pioneer of staged musicals in concert, whose first season in 1994 included Lady in the Dark, offers seven performances in five days, March 26-30, at New York City Center. Tony Award-winning actress Victoria Clark will direct a cast who are mostly returning from the 2020 COVID-canceled production, along with music director Rob Berman and choreographer JoAnn Hunter. Starring as Susan and Samuel Cooper are two-time Tony nominee Kate Baldwin and Nicholas Christopher, seen most recently on and off Broadway in Sweeney Todd, Hamilton, Little Shop of Horrors, and the title role of Jelly’s Last Jam at Encores!


Encores! Inside the Revival | Love Life

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