In keeping with the cold season and the traditional holiday performances (New Year's Eve and Carnival), one of Berlin's hottest jazz operettas is coming to the Community Theater stage for the first time in November.
"Why," is the basic theme at the ball in the Savoy, "are men allowed to cheat and women aren't?" "We do it too, but we don't talk about it," is the well-meaning answer Madeleine receives from her friends. But Madeleine refuses to remain silent and forces her husband, the Marquis Aristide, into an open confrontation.
Just like the plot, Paul Abraham's music is characterized by lightness, cheeky to frivolous wit and the new style of a new era. Whether it's the jazz composer Daisy Parker, alias José Pasodoble, singing the "Kangaroo Song" with her gentleman admirers; Madeleine, the wife of the unfaithful marquis, asking: "What's a woman to gain from fidelity?"; or the Turkish attaché Mustapha Bei with his six ex-wives. "Wenn wir Türken küssen" sings - the music from Ball im Savoy (premiere 1932) is a swinging kaleidoscope of the Roaring Twenties in Berlin with foxtrot and English waltz.
Premiere November 13, 2023
Further performances: November 18, 13, 17, 23 and 31 December 2023, January 16, February 9 and 11, March 6, April 28, May 4, 10 and 30, 2024
