Arthur Miller, Orson Welles, John Houseman, Martin Ritt, Elia Kazan, Joseph Losey, Marc Blitzstein, Arthur Arent and Abe Feder all became established, in part, through their work in the FTP.

Welles, Houseman, and Blitzstein, seeking a way to privately produce the show, rented the much larger Venice Theatre and a piano just in time for the scheduled preview on June 16, 1937.

Houseman also announced that the musical would continue to be performed with Blitzstein playing piano onstage and the cast members singing from the audience.

Bit parts were given to Welles ' Mercury Theatre producer John Houseman, assistant director John Berry, composer Marc Blitzstein and the New York Herald Tribunes drama critic Herbert Drake ; Welles gave himself a small role as a Keystone Kop.

Originally to open at the Maxine Elliott Theatre with elaborate sets and a full orchestra, the production was shut down on opening night, and Welles, Housman, and Blitzstein scrambled to rent the Venice Theatre twenty blocks north.

In 1959 he made his musical debut playing Captain Boyle in the ill-fated Marc Blitzstein musical Juno, based on Sean O ' Casey's Juno and the Paycock.

Marc Blitzstein was born in Philadelphia on March 2, 1905, the son of affluent parents.

Although Blitzstein married novelist Eva Goldbeck on March 2, 1933, he was openly gay ; they had no children.

There, without costumes or sets, they performed the work concert-style, actors and musicians alike, sitting among the audience ( to evade union restrictions on their performance ) with Blitzstein narrating from the piano.

At the time of his death Blitzstein was at work on Idiots First, a one-act opera based on the eponymous story by Bernard Malamud – intended to be part of a set of one-acters called Tales of Malamud – which Ned Rorem has called " his best work ".

In 1958, Blitzstein was subpoenaed to appear before the notorious red-baiting U. S. House Committee on Un-American Activities ( HUAC ).

According to the New York Public Library, the first original cast album, a set of songs recorded by the cast of The Cradle Will Rock, by Marc Blitzstein, was released in 1938 on Musicraft.

The WPA temporarily shut down the project a few days before it was to open on Broadway, so to avoid government and union restrictions, the show was performed with Blitzstein playing piano onstage and the cast members singing their parts from the audience.

She appears with William Sharp and pianist Steven Blier on a New York Festival of Song recording released by Koch International Classics called Zipperfly & Other Songs by Marc Blitzstein.

A musical adaptation of the play, titled Juno, was created by Marc Blitzstein ( music, lyrics ) and Joseph Stein ( book ) and opened on Broadway in 1959.

Juno is a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Marc Blitzstein and book by Joseph Stein, based closely on the 1924 play Juno and the Paycock by Sean O ' Casey.

On Broadway he danced to considerable acclaim as " Johnny " in Marc Blitzstein and Joseph Stein's 1959 musical, Juno ( based on Sean O ' Casey's play Juno and the Paycock ).

The program staged many elaborate and controversial plays such as It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis and The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein.

Blitzstein also composed music for films, such as Surf and Seaweed ( 1931 ) and The Spanish Earth ( 1937 ), and he contributed two songs to the original 1960 production of Hellman's play Toys in the Attic.

Written by Marc Blitzstein the musical was about Larry Foreman, a worker in Steeltown ( played in the original production by Howard Da Silva ), which is run by the boss, Mister Mister ( played in the original production by Will Geer ).

Cradle Will Rock is a 1999 drama film which chronicles the process and events that surrounded the production of the original 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein.

For her first production in her new theatre Ms Lortel reopened her White Barn production of the Marc Blitzstein translation of The Threepenny Opera at the theatre.

In May 1983, founding alumni of The Acting Company reunited for an off-Broadway revival of Marc Blitzstein ’ s landmark labor musical The Cradle Will Rock at the American Place Theatre.

When she arrives at the source of the music, the camera pans up the side of the building and moves inside where we are introduced to the playwright Marc Blitzstein ( Hank Azaria ), who is attempting to write the songs and put together the musical The Cradle Will Rock.

He appeared in the leftist plays Waiting for Lefty ( by Clifford Odets ) and The Cradle Will Rock ( by Marc Blitzstein ).

The Cradle Will Rock is a 1937 musical by Marc Blitzstein.

* Moll, a character in the 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein

The Group included Elia Kazan, Harry Morgan ( billed as Harry Bratsburg ), Stella Adler, Robert Lewis, John Garfield ( billed as Jules Garfield ), Canada Lee, Franchot Tone, Phoebe Brand, Ruth Nelson, Will Geer, Howard Da Silva, John Randolph, Joseph Bromberg, Michael Gordon, Paul Green, Clifford Odets, Paul Strand, Morris Carnovsky, Sanford Meisner, Marc Blitzstein, Anna Sokolow and Lee J. Cobb, Roman Bohnen and many others.

Ivens was, however, known for his anti-fascist and other propaganda films, including The Spanish Earth, for the Spanish loyalists, co-written with Ernest Hemingway and music by Marc Blitzstein and Virgil Thomson.

* 1905 – Marc Blitzstein, American composer ( d. 1964 )

Its opening and closing lament, " The Ballad of Mackie Messer ", was written just before the Berlin premiere, when actor Harald Paulsen ( Macheath ) threatened to quit if his character did not receive an introduction ; this creative emergency resulted in what would become the work's most popular song, later translated into English by Marc Blitzstein as " Mack the Knife " and now a jazz standard that Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé, Robbie Williams, Ray Quinn and countless others have all covered.

One was published by Marc Blitzstein in the 1950s and first staged under Leonard Bernstein's baton at Brandeis University in 1952.

Blitzstein had translated the work into English ; Lenya, Weill's wife since the 1920s, had sung both Jenny and Polly earlier in Germany.

* January 22 – Marc Blitzstein, American composer ( b. 1905 )

In 1949, the play was adapted for an opera entitled Regina by Marc Blitzstein.

In 1949 the play was adapted into an opera by Marc Blitzstein, under the title Regina.

* " Mack The Knife " w. ( Eng ) Marc Blitzstein ( Ger ) Bertolt Brecht m. Kurt Weill

Marcus Samuel Blitzstein, better known as Marc Blitzstein ( March 2, 1905January 22, 1964 ), was an American composer.

In 1928 his father Sam Blitzstein married Robert Serber's sister-in-law Madeline Leof.

During a visit to Martinique in 1964, at the age of 58, Blitzstein was murdered by three Portuguese sailors he had picked up in a bar, one of whom he was said to have propositioned.

In 1939, Blitzstein's close friend Leonard Bernstein led a revival of the play at Harvard, narrating from the piano just as Blitzstein had done.

In the film, Blitzstein ( played by Hank Azaria ) is portrayed as gaining inspiration through ghostly appearances by his idol Brecht and his late anorexic wife.

This was followed by the work Blitzstein intended to be his magnum opus, a three-act opera commissioned by the Ford Foundation and optioned by the Metropolitan Opera entitled Sacco and Vanzetti.

On September 30, 2005, Praeger published Lehrman's long-awaited Marc Blitzstein: A Bio-Bibliography.