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Press Release Contact: Macalester College Theater and Dance Department Presents St. Paul, Minn. – Macalester College Theater and Dance Department presents "The Threepenny Opera" by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, in the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center Main Stage Theater, 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, Minn. Tickets are $10 general admission and $7 for seniors and groups, except for the Thursday, March 6 performance which will be “pay what you can,” and the matinee performance on March 2 will be $5 for everyone. Performances are Friday and Saturday, Feb. 29 and March 1, and Thursday - Saturday March 6 - 8 at 7:30 p.m. There is also a 2 p.m. performance on Sunday, March 2. Guest artist Gary Briggle directs. This play is recommended for mature audiences. "Oh the shark has pretty teeth, dear," so beware - Mac the Knife is back in town! Out of gutters, jails and brothels this macabre masterpiece tells the tale of the murderous Macheath, uncrowned King of Criminals, as he stalks money, power and women with a violent passion. Embellished with marvelously comic characters and witty songs, this play satirizes an effete culture in a corrupt world - a world not unlike our own. Gary Briggle has staged classic opera to contemporary works, from Mozart to Argento, Gilbert & Sullivan to Sondheim. He recently directed "The Comedy of Errors" at Concordia College (St. Paul), Rossini's "La Cambiale di Matrimonio" at the University of Iowa, "H.M.S. Pinafore" at Dayton Opera (Ohio) and "Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill" for Skylark Opera (St. Paul). A professional singer-actor for over 30 years, he was a member of the Minnesota Opera Company, The Children's Theatre (acting) Company (Minneapolis) and has performed with Nautilus Music-Theater (St. Paul), Frank Theater (Minneapolis), Theatre de la Jeune Lune (Minneapolis), and Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (St. Paul), among others. Briggle also teaches Balk Techniques for singer-actors at MacPhail Center for Music (Minneapolis). Macalester College, founded in 1874, is a national liberal arts college with a full-time enrollment of 1,873 students. Macalester is nationally recognized for its long-standing commitment to academic excellence, internationalism, multiculturalism and civic engagement.
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