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Kurt Weill and Langston Hughes' Street Scene is a panorama of life in a Lower East Side Manhattan neighborhood that's a mixture of many different nationalities and ethnicities, including Italian, Swedish, and Russian. It begins with a number of women complaining about the sweltering heat, but soon move on to gossiping about another of the tenants, Anna Maurrant, an unhappily married woman who is having an affair. Anna's daughter, Rose, is having her own troubles. Her boss, Mr. Easter, is putting a lot of moves on her, but ...

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