Just to complicate matters, there are characters named Jenny in
everything except "Happy End."
Ken Wolman wrote:
> George Hunka wrote:
>
>> And, in addition to all this, "Surabaya Johnny" first appeared in
>> "Happy End," a Brecht-Weill collaboration which flopped when it
>> premiered in 1929. I haven't heard the opera "Mahagonny" in a while,
>> so I don't know whether they cribbed the song for the larger work or
>> not.
>
> Damn, hadda do my own homework:-). "Surabaya" is SO huge a song that
> it could be freestanding. Pirate Jenny too.
>
> ken
>
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