'The Threepenny Opera' at Studio 54 in Spring 2006

Roundabout Theatre Company will present Alan Cumming as 'Macheath,' and Edie Falco as 'Jenny' with Nellie McKay as 'Polly' in a new Broadway production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill�s The Threepenny Opera, directed by Scott Elliott on Broadway at Studio 54. Roundabout Theatre Company has commissioned Wallace Shawn to translate and adapt the original German book and lyrics for the production.

Performances will begin in Spring 2006. This will be a limited engagement. The cast and creative team will be announced shortly.

The Threepenny Opera serves up a deliciously dark satire of �respectable� society, with dashing thieves, saucy prostitutes, and lingering melodies. Based on Elizabeth Hauptmann�s German translation of John Gay�s eighteenth-century The Beggar�s Opera, The Threepenny Opera thrusts the audience into the seedy underworld of Mack the Knife, a dapper criminal and his wry love affair with Polly Peachum.

Scott Elliott is an Associate Artist of the Roundabout Theatre Company. For the Roundabout Theatre Company, he has directed Chekhov�s 'Three Sisters' and Clare Boothe Luce�s 'The Women'.

The Threepenny Opera premiered on Broadway at the Empire Theatre on April 13, 1933. The last Broadway revival began at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 5th, 1989.

The Threepenny Opera will be the fifth musical at Studio 54 since Roundabout Theatre Company purchased the venue that will serve as their new home for musical theatre productions and special theatrical events. The past tenants include 'Pacific Overtures', the Tony award-winning production of 'Assassins' and the Tony award-winning production of 'Cabaret' which had its final performance on January 4, 2004, after a six year run.