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Oct 14, 2017
Lavender Songs - A Queer Weimar Berlin Cabaret
Directed by Jason Jacobs
Since Inauguration Day 2017, Jeremy Lawrence has been remounting an evening originally created by Alan Lareau in conjunction with the exhibition "Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945" at the U.S. Holocaust Museum. The songs, originally written or performed by queer artists in Weimar era Berlin, include the music of 11 composer-lyricists, seven of whom were Jewish. Two of these died in the camps, two committed suicide, one survived in hiding in the Netherlands, and two others escaped to exile - Friedrich Hollaender to America and Mischa Spoliansky to England. The show?ÇÖs English lyrics and special material are written by Lawrence, who also created the English lyrics on Ute Lemper?ÇÖs widely praised recording, "Berlin Cabaret Songs."
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