Hypothetically Murdered
In 1931 Shostakovich wrote a full-length score for the Leningrad Music Hall, for a show that involved many of the leading entertainers of the day, as well as dancing girls, a jazz band, a dancing dog, sequences of silent film, simulated air-raids and gas attacks, a lorry, a storm, waiters and waitresses in a luxury restaurant, river nymphs and even a scene in Heaven with the Devil, the Twelve Apostles, the Archangel Gabriel and all the other angels doing a blasphemous knees-up. The show was naturally a momentary scandal and the score soon disappeared. In 1991 Gerard McBurney reconstructed from the surviving sketches a sequence of 21 of the orchestral numbers to make a hilarious sequence of gallops, saucy polkas, marches and schmoozy waltzes.
Cast
Natalia de Froberville
Mashenka Kurochkin
Artyom Mishakov
Stopka Kurochkin
Sergei Mershin
Beyburzhuyev
German Starikov
Angel
Anna Pushvintseva-Poistogova
Showy Lady
Eugenia Chetverikova
Dancing Couple
Denis Tolmazov
Dancing Couple
Lyaisan Gisatullina
Barmaid
Alexey Budrin
Accordion Player
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