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March 05, 2009
"Tonight: Lola Blau" to Appear at La MaMa in NYC
The one-woman play "Tonight: Lola Blau" starts next Friday, March 13, at New York's La MaMa theater at 74A East 4th Street. Written in 1971, the play deals with some sensitive and always compelling post-Holocaust issues. The website describes them succinctly:
Lola Blau is a Jewish singer trying to find work in Nazi-occupied Vienna. Escaping to the United States, she is obliged to sing in seedy nightclubs before achieving fame. After the war, she returns, with some trepidation, to Vienna. Her story is told in a nearly continuous flow of seventeen Kurt Weill-style songs, each cleverly evoking a mood, a period or environment in wickedly accurate parody and pastiche. In Lola's return concert, she slyly condemns all those who failed to notice the disappearance of six million Jews and confronts the audience with its prejudices. She dares the audience to share Kreisler's (the composer's) disgust at Austria's posing as a victim of Nazism rather than as a collaborator.
I for one doubt I'll have any difficult sharing Lola's disgust at Austria.
Playing the part of Lola is Anna Krämer, who has appeared in both New York and Germany.
"Tonight: Lola Blau" has only six performances, so if this sounds intriguing, get to the phones. And at $15, the tickets are a bargain.
(Truth in blogging: Through circumstances too complicated to describe here, I edited materials for the program guide. So, support the play and you get the pleasure of reading my sparkling, if uncredited, prose.)
Van | 03/05/09 at 09:23 PM | Categories: Sensual pleasures
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