The Wedekind cabaret
By: by Eric Bentley ; music by Arnold Black, William Bolcom, Lucas Mason and Peter Winkler
Publisher: Samuel French
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9780573660252
Subjects: Librettos; Revues; Adaptations
Work titles: Wedekind cabaret. Libretto
Description: Two cabaret programs featuring songs, poems, and stories by Frank Wedekind.
Notes: "Music by Arnold Black, William Bolcom, Lucas Mason and Peter Winkler"--cover.

"The first program is framed by two Bentley ballads telling the stories of Spring's Awakening and The First Lulu, respectively. Within that frame is a varied series of Wedekind songs and spoken poems. The second program is framed by two Wedekind short stories, neither of them ever before presented on an American (or any other) stage. Within this second frame come poems and songs in which we meet another Wedekind, a wild poet who also had a tender, even elegiac side."--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Program one: two original ballads and 33 Wedekind poems and songs; title: program two: two original songs, two Wedekind stories and four Wedekind poems.