Hypothetically Murdered
In 1931 Shostakovich wrote a full-length score for the Leningrad Music Hall, for a show that involved many of the leading entertainers of the day, as well as dancing girls, a jazz band, a dancing dog, sequences of silent film, simulated air-raids and gas attacks, a lorry, a storm, waiters and waitresses in a luxury restaurant, river nymphs and even a scene in Heaven with the Devil, the Twelve Apostles, the Archangel Gabriel and all the other angels doing a blasphemous knees-up. The show was naturally a momentary scandal and the score soon disappeared. In 1991 Gerard McBurney reconstructed from the surviving sketches a sequence of 21 of the orchestral numbers to make a hilarious sequence of gallops, saucy polkas, marches and schmoozy waltzes.
Cast
- Natalia de Froberville Mashenka Kurochkin
- Artyom Mishakov Stopka Kurochkin
- Sergei Mershin Beyburzhuyev
- German Starikov Angel
- Anna Pushvintseva-Poistogova Showy Lady
- Eugenia Chetverikova Dancing Couple
- Denis Tolmazov Dancing Couple
- Lyaisan Gisatullina Barmaid
- Alexey Budrin Accordion Player
Make it a double feature
2h 29m together
Hypothetically Murdered
Step Up 2: The Streets
A close match in mood and era.
