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.
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
Love Happy58%
High Strung70%
Battle of the Year67%
Silk Stockings68%
Coyote Ugly62%
Save the Last Dance65%
Star!69%
One Chance66%
Feel the Beat75%
Monster High: Boo York, Boo York78%
Limelight79%
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie62%
Arlo the Alligator Boy67%
Pure Country 2: The Gift67%
Yankee Doodle Dandy70%
Chevalier64%
Make Mine Music58%
Hounddog64%
Babes in Arms64%
Teen Spirit60%
