Here Lies Jenny Extends at the Zipper
by Broadway Staff • Jul 9, 2004
Here Lies Jenny, the late-night Kurt Weill show starring Bebe Neuwirth, is being extended and adding a wider variety of performance times. The show, which was originally scheduled to end its limited engagement at the Zipper Theater on July 24, has been playing Thursday through Saturdays at 11pm, but starting on July 28, the show will begin playing six performances a week.
In Here Lies Jenny, a one-time saloon singer Neuwirth at the end of the line arrives at a bar that, like her, has seen better days. Clutching what's left of her life in a small canvas bag, Jenny is drawn inside the joint, at once foreign and painfully familiar. She finds herself singing along to the music playing--the soundtrack, strangely enough, of her life. Searching for something or someone, she seduces and rejects the bar denizens in her way. Through the music, Jenny relives the highs and lows of her checkered existence and finally finds a strength she didn't know she had--the strength to face another day.
In Here Lies Jenny, a one-time saloon singer Neuwirth at the end of the line arrives at a bar that, like her, has seen better days. Clutching what's left of her life in a small canvas bag, Jenny is drawn inside the joint, at once foreign and painfully familiar. She finds herself singing along to the music playing--the soundtrack, strangely enough, of her life. Searching for something or someone, she seduces and rejects the bar denizens in her way. Through the music, Jenny relives the highs and lows of her checkered existence and finally finds a strength she didn't know she had--the strength to face another day.
Here Lies Jenny has music direction and supervision by Leslie Stifelman, choreography by Tony Award winner Ann Reinking and is conceived and directed by Tony Award winner Roger Rees. It opened off-Broadway on May 27.
In addition to Neuwirth, Here Lies Jenny currently features Greg Butler, Shawn Emamjomeh and Ed Dixon. Beginning July 28, Dixon, Angelo Fraboni, Julio Monge, Chris Fenwick and Lenny Daniel will be featured alongside Neuwirth.