Bebe Neuwirth Brings Here Lies Jenny to San Francisco
Broadway.com has learned that Bebe Neuwirth will star in a San Francisco mounting of Here Lies Jenny, the Kurt Weill musical that played at the Zipper Theatre last year. The show is set to begin performances on May 1 at the Post Street Theatre formerly The Theatre on the Square.
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 played at the Zipper from May 7, 2004 through October 3, 2004.
