Brecht and Weill’s Rise and Fall in the fair city

EVERYONE knows the work of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, even if they don’t necessarily know that they do. Songs like ‘Mack the Knife’ and ‘The Alabama Song’ are zippy anthems of popular culture — made famous in versions by Louis Armstrong and the Doors respectively.
While Brecht and Weill were committed to using their music theatre to trigger social consciousness it never prevented them from drumming up a good score.