Here Lies Jenny Extends Again at the Zipper
by Broadway Staff • Aug 27, 2004
Here Lies Jenny, the Kurt Weill show starring Bebe Neuwirth, is being extended for a second time. The show will now run at the Zipper Theater through October 3.
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 as a late-night cabaret, but expanded its performances times in July.
In addition to Neuwirth, Here Lies Jenny features Ed Dixon, Angelo Fraboni, Julio Monge, Chris Fenwick and Lenny Daniel.