Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Why Influence? Anxiety and Other Modes of Intertextuality 11
6. 2 “Have You Seen My New Opera?” The Cradle Will Rock, Johnny Johnson, and Die Dreigroschenoper 39
7. 3 “Something Like Opera”: Regina, Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, and Street Scene 70
8. 4 “Make Our Garden Grow”: Candide and Die Dreigroschenoper 98
9. 5 “This Isn’t Worth Drei Groschen”: West Side Story and Street Scene 118
10. 6 A Pray by Blecht: Revisiting the Lehrstück 146
11. 7 “The Saga of Lenny”: Trouble in Tahiti and Lady in the Dark 165
12. Epilogue 181
13. Bibliography 185
14. Index 203