I've been down on Lotte Lenya since she dissed Brecht on the made-for-TV production of "Mahagony." and I didn't care for that production, which tried to make it into grand opera -- like they missed the point of Brecht/Weill somehow.

My 20th C. German Drama studies -- which was all Brecht, of course -- is probably what made a leftie out of me. thank you, Dr. Schluchter, wherever you are.