Elliot calls it a "theatrical urban landscape." Many of the cast members of this gender-bending production wear S&M bondage costumes designed by Isaac Mizrahi, and the spare set uses large neon signs to identify locales: a stable, whorehouse, the gallows. Playwright and actor Wallace Shawn adapted Brecht's script for the Roundabout Theatre's production, using coarser language than previous translations the venue is Manhattan's Studio 54. Now, a Broadway revival directed by Scott Elliot untethers The Threepenny Opera from its period setting and puts it into a kind of metaphorical present. The highly political show, set in 18th-century London, was populated with a nasty assortment of thieves, cut-throats, beggars, prostitutes and capitalists. Their adaptation of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera - which they retitled The Threepenny Opera - was a major sensation. In 1928, playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill were at the cutting edge of German theater.
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