Johnny Johnson (words by Paul Green, music by Kurt Weill; Group Theatre, producer) is described by its authors as "a legend." It is also a fable, a fantasy, a dream of peace and goodwill stated in terms so simple and childlike that, while it may irritate the sophisticated, it should please the pure in heart.
Johnny Johnson should also appeal to playgoers interested in seeing some of the theatre's traditional dimensions torn out and enlarged. Playwright Green, who supplied the Group with its first play, The House of Connelly, and fugitive German composer Weill,...
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