Songs From a Hotel Bedroom

Synopsis

1949: stylish and sophisticated post-war New York. Cabaret singer Angelique relives the memories of her brief but passionate love affair with songwriter Dan. Recalling her arrival from Paris a year before, she reflects on how her life has changed... This exciting new piece of music theatre unfolds through the bittersweet love songs of Kurt Weill’s American repertoire, including September Song, Speak Low, I’m A Stranger Here Myself, and the sensuous mischief of tango dance.

Our Review:

Anne Morley-Priestman - 14 October 2010

The story is a new one, yet it’s as old as telling tales itself. Boy meets girl in the aftermath of conflict. They are separated, come together in another place at another time, are separated yet again, meet again… Songs From a Hotel Bedroom is music theatre in its widest sense, with the stage numbers of Kurt Weill punctuating the action and with the two main characters – chanteuse Angélique and songwriter Dan – having tango dancers as alter-egos shadowing their passion.

Weill’s lyricists were a starry bunch – Ira Gershwin, Ogden Nash and Maxwell Anderson among them. Peter Rowe’s linking dialogue fits th new yet old story very well and director/choreographer Kate Flatt welds the two couples into something more disturbing than a mere decorative echoing. Chloe Lamford’s sets move seamlessly between a succession of slightly sordid hotel bedrooms to a recording studio and a New York nightclub while the...

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