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The Cradle Will Rock is a 1937 play in music by Marc Blitzstein. Originally a part of the Federal Theatre Project, it was directed by Orson Welles and produced by John Houseman. Set in Steeltown, U.S.A., the Brechtian allegory of corruption and corporate greed includes a panoply of social figures.
Blitzstein wrote The Cradle Will Rock shortly after the death of his wife, novelist Eva Goldbeck. The two of them were very close, and her passing devastated the composer.
Cradle Will Rock is a 1999 American historical drama film written, produced and directed by Tim Robbins.
"And the Cradle Will Rock..." is a song written and performed by Van Halen. It appears on their 1980 album Women and Children First and was released as a single. It is also the first song released by the band that featured the keyboard playing of Eddie Van Halen.
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Marc Blitzstein's biggest and best-remembered hit, Cradle Will Rock was a left-wing dream when it opened in 1937, in the middle of the Great Depression.
In January 1936, Bertolt Brecht was in New York to discuss translations of his work with, amongst others, Blitzstein's wife Eva. One evening at a party, Blitzstein played Brecht a short scena that he had written about a prostitute, call Nickel under the Foot.
Original album packaging. The opera “The Cradle Will Rock” (1936-37), composer-librettist Marc Blitzstein’s first big success, proved a turning point in his career, and its premiere, a legendary event in the annals of the American theater.
