Andrew Lear

FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN

The Jewish and Gay Songs of Weimar Berlin's Tin Pan Alley

Fall in love with Marlene. Trade barbs with Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. And laugh your way through the wild, glittering chaos of the Weimar era with the Comedian Harmonists, Europe’s biggest hitmakers of the 1920s.

In Berlin’s answer to Tin Pan Alley, many of the era’s most dazzling composers, lyricists, and performers were Jewish, gay, or both — and they created a songbook as bold, witty, and irresistible as the city itself.

This cabaret brings their world back to life: the cynical, the silly, the seductive, and the sublime. These were the songs that kept Europe dancing and laughing… right up until 1933...