My Lenya story:
In 1967 my mother worked at a Detroit bank with a young woman whose brother had some connection to Lotte Lenya. My parents cooked up a surprise trip to NYC for my mother and me, to occur at the beginning of the summer before my senior year. Through her co-worker, Mom secured third row center seats for CABARET, then playing at the Imperial Theatre. We saw the entire original cast and met 4 of the 5 principals at the stage door afterwards. I still have the autographed pictorial program book, signed by Joel Grey, Bert Convy, Jack Gilford, and Lotte Lenya. We missed Jill Haworth because she'd swapped her short dark hair for long blond and we didn't recognize her until she called "Good Night" in her raspy British voice.
Anyway, what I suspect is that we sat in Lenya's house seats for which Mom had paid the outrageous price of $12.00 each.
