I was lucky enough to see one of the last performances of Here Lies Jenny starring Bebe Neuwirth last fall at the Zipper Theater in New York.

The Zipper Theatre is a really cool, intimate, converted zipper factory. The seats are all reclaimed bucket car seats, some single, some double.

Directed and conceived by Roger Rees and choreographed by Neuwirth's Chicago colleague Ann Reinking, the show introduces a bedraggled woman who returns to a run-down watering hole populated by two thugs, a pianist, and a barkeep.

In a 90-minute span of time, songs by Kurt Weill are performed -- not telling a particular story but suggesting conflicts within the lost title character, and between her and the men of the joint. My favorite number is the "Saga of Jenny" (which, BTW, Julie Andrews also performs as Gertrude Lawrence in the movie musical Star!).

And I read in this article in Playbill that the show is running in San Francisco at the Post Street Theatre until May 25. I'm not familiar with that theater but I'm hoping it is as intimate a space as the Zipper was, because I'm not sure the show would work in a really large venue. You kind of need to feel like you're a fly on the wall.

Anyway, if you love Bebe and you love Kurt Weill, you'll enjoy this show! In a world where nobody's got no class, Bebe is filthy with it!

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