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Halbwelt Kultur is a 2012 musical cabaret based on the lives of seven highly influential women of the Weimar Republic. An original concept by Patrick Kennedy, the show was devised by PK Productions and includes music by Hans Eisler, Bertolt Brecht, Friedrich Hollaender, Mischa Spoliansky and Fats Waller. The 2012 Churchill Theatre Bromley Cabaret VIP pre-show production became a hit and spawned a seven cast strong production premiering at the New Wimbledon Theatre in April 2013.〔http://www.atgtickets.com/shows/halbwelt-kultur/new-wimbledon-studio/〕〔https://twitter.com/HalbweltKultur〕〔http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwRM4T-LqhM〕 The show presents snapshot vignettes of the women set against the sound of the period's finest songs and the backdrop of the rise of World War II. It is based on verbatim interviews and accounts of the period and is a series of Brechtian vignettes magnifying the personalities of the women's lives. Each vignette is framed with a famous song from the period and describes the rise to success of the women and the ultimate fleeing from Berlin due to the growing threat of Nazism. == Etymology == Halbwelt Kultur is a German portmanteau meaning 'Underworld Culture' and comes from a 1927 book ''Ladies of the Underworld'' by Netley Lucas: *The German is gross in his immorality, he likes his Halb-Welt or underworld pleasures to be devoid of any Kultur or refinement, he enjoys obscenity in a form which even the Parisian would not tolerate. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Halbwelt Kultur」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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