Production Info

Opening March 28, 1928
Closing: April 28, 1928
Length of Run: 36 perf.
Run Type: Open-ended

Location Info

Location: New York, NY

Credits Highlights

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Staging

Cast

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Peachum
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Macheath
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Mrs. Peachum
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Polly Peachum
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Lucy Lockit
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Jenny Diver
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Lockit
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Filch
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Drawer, The Beggar
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Diana Trapes

Musical Numbers

Act One

  • Thro' All the Employments of Life
  • Tis the Woman that Seduces all Mankind
  • If Any Wench Venus's Girdle Wear
  • If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade
  • A Maid is Like the Golden Oar
  • Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower in Its Lustre
  • Our Polly Is a Sad Slut
  • Can Love Be Controlled by Advise?
  • Oh Polly, You Might Have Toy'd and Kissed
  • I, Like a Ship in Storms, was Tossed
  • A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir
  • Oh Ponder Well
  • The Turtle Thus with Plaintive Crying
  • Pretty Polly, Say
  • My Heart Was So Free
  • Were I Laid on Greenland's Coast
  • Oh What Pain It is to Part

Act Two

  • Fill Every Glass
  • Let Us Take the Road
  • If the Heart of a Man
  • Youth's the Season Made for Joys
  • Before the Barn-Door Crowing
  • At the Tree I Shall Suffer with Pleasure
  • Man May Escape from Rope and Gun
  • Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat
  • How Cruel Are the Traitors
  • The First Time at the Looking-Glass
  • When You Censure the Age
  • Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir?
  • You'll Think e'er Many Days Ensue
  • Thus when the Swallow, Seeking Prey
  • How Happy Could I Be with Either
  • I'm Bubbled
  • Cease Your Funning
  • Why How Now, Madam Flirt?
  • No Power on Earth Can e'er Divide

Act Three

  • Thus Gamesters United in Friendship are Found
  • The Modes of the Court So Common are Grown
  • In the Days of My Youth
  • I'm Like a Skiff on the Ocean Tossed
  • A Curse Attends that Woman's Love
  • Come, Sweet Lass
  • Hither, Dear Husband
  • Which Way Shall I Turn Me?
  • The Charge is Prepared
  • O Cruel, Cruel, Cruel Case!
  • Of all the Friends in Time of Grief
  • But Valour the Stronger Grows
  • But can I Leave my Pretty Hussies
  • Their Eyes, Their Lips, Their Busses
  • Would I Might Be Hang'd
  • Thus I Stand Like the Turk

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Trivia & History

Nigel Playfair's staging was recreated but the individual that recreated it is uncredited. Settings are also uncredited.

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Production Info

Opening March 28, 1928
Closing: April 28, 1928
Length of Run: 36 perf.
Run Type: Open-ended

Location Info

Location: New York, NY

Venues

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