In Hamburg, Germany, anyone can dial 4166 and hear hit records of the week. Most startling selection: Louis Armstrong playing and croaking a catchy 4/4 time ditty called Mack the Knife: Oh the shark ...

But let’s be fair: Fitzgerald didn’t write “Mack the Knife,” making her mistake more understandable. Bobby Darrin and Louis Armstrong first sang the song, according to The Kids Should See This. Still, ...

The Brecht/Weill song, 'Mack The Knife' first appeared in 'The Threepenny Opera' in Berlin in 1928. Brecht and Weill's 'play with music' was based on John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera', which was ...

THE THREEPENNY OPERA. Musical by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. With Alan Cumming, Jim Dale, Ana Gasteyer. Director: Scott Elliott. At Studio 54. ($36. 25-$111. 25; 212-719-1300) Among the forgotten ...

Presented by Splish Splash Productions, LLC, casting by World Casting, at the Theatre at Saint Peter's, 619 Lexington Ave., NYC, June 22-Aug. 31. Do not toss out those old Bobby Darin records and ...

Tony-winner Jonathan Groff is set to star in a staged reading next month of a new musical about Bobby Darin, the 1950s-’60s-era singer who scored hits with “Mack the Knife,” “Dream Lover” and “Beyond ...