City Center Encores: Lost in the Stars February 4, 2011

Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson set to work fashioning Alan Paton's novel 'Cry, the Beloved Country' into a musical tragedy within weeks of its publication. This story of life in South Africa under apartheid stirred generations to action, and was the basis for a beautiful, brooding, dramatic musical that produced not only the immortal title song, but an entire score that pulses with the life of a people.'Lost in the Stars' opened at the Music Box Theater on October 30, 1949, and played 281 performances. It was Weill's last completed work before his death in 1950.