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Opening Date
Dec 26, 1946
Closing Date
Mar 29, 1947
Performances
111
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ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION

Theatres
Broadway Theatre
(Dec 26, 1946 - Mar 29, 1947)
Produced by Perry Watkins and John R. Sheppard, Jr.
Music by Duke Ellington; Book by John La Touche; Lyrics by John La Touche; Musical Director: Max Meth; Orchestrations under personal supervision of Billy Strayhorn; Based on "The Beggar's Opera" by John Gay; Lyrics of "Brown Penny" based on poem by William Butler Yeats
Book Directed by Nicholas Ray; Choreographed by Valerie Bettis
Production Design by Oliver Smith; Lighting Design by Peggy Clark; Assistant to Mr. Florrell: Patricia Brohan; Costume Design by Walter Florell
General Manager: Leo Rose
Technical Supervisor: Peggy Clark; General Stage Manager: Frank Coletti; Stage Manager: Kevin Smith and Charles O. Carey
Orchestra Personnel Manager: Al Pearl
Assistant to Miss Bettis: Paul Godkin; Press Representative: Lorella Val-Mery
Alfred Drake
MacHeath
Zero Mostel
Hamilton Peachum
Hy Anzell
Customer
Marjorie Belle
The Lookout
 
The Girl
 
Lead Dancer
Jack Bittner
Highbinder
 
Member of Mac's Gang
Perry Bruskin
The Foot
 
Mooch
 
Member of Mac's Gang
Marie Bryant
The Cocoa Girl
Stanley Carlson
Fingersmith
 
Member of Mac's Gang
Lewis Charles
A Drunk
 
Member of Mac's Gang
William Dillard
The Horn
 
Member of Mac's Gang
Malka Farber
Trixy Turner
 
Dancer
Paul Godkin
Wire Boy
 
The Boy
 
Lead Dancer
Thomas Gomez
The Pursued
 
The Other Eye
 
Dancer
Doris Goodwin
Mrs. Trapes
 
Dancer
Claire Hale
Baby Mildred
 
Dancer
Leonne Hall
Betty Doxy
Douglas Henderson
The Caser
Lucas Hoving
Policeman
 
Strip
 
Dancer
Dorothy Johnson
Mrs. Peachum
Elmira Jones-Bey
Bessie Buns
 
Dancer
Nina Korda
Minute Lou
Avon Long
Careless Love
Jet MacDonald
Polly Peachum
Tommie Moore
Tawdry Audrey
Gordon Nelson
O'Heister
 
Customer
 
Black Marketeer
 
Member of Mac's Gang
Lavina Nielsen
Dolly Trull
 
Dancer
Bernice Parks
Jenny
Albert Popwell
Plainclothesman
 
Slam
 
Dancer
Herbert Ross
Policeman
 
Bartender
 
Dancer
Archie Savage
Cop
 
Gunsel
 
Dancer
Mildred Joanne Smith
Lucy Lockit
Rollin Smith
Chief Lockit
Pan Theodore
The Eye
 
Blenkinsop
Royce Wallace
Annie Coaxer
 
Dancer
Enid Williams
Flora
the Harpy
 
Dancer

Broadway Theatre (Dec 26, 1946 - Mar 29, 1947)

Cast

Margaret Wilson
Betty Doxy
music by Duke Ellington; lyrics by John Latouche
Act 1
Sung By
Inbetween
Lucy Lockit
When You Go Down By Miss Jenny's
Citizens and Girls
I've Got Me
MacHeath
TNT
The Cocoa Girl
Take Love Easy
Jenny
I Wanna Be Bad
Careless Love
Rooster Man
Jenny
When I Walk With You
Polly Peachum and MacHeath
I've Got Me (Reprise)
First Girl
The Scrimmage of Life
Mrs. Peachum, Hamilton Peachum and Lucy Lockit
Ore from a Gold Mine
Mrs. Peachum and Hamilton Peachum
When I Walk With You (Reprise)
MacHeath and Polly Peachum
Tooth and Claw
Mac's Gang
Maybe I Should Change My Ways
MacHeath
The Wrong Side of the Railroad Tracks
The Cocoa Girl, Careless Love and The Horn
Tomorrow Mountain
MacHeath
Act 2
Sung By
Brown Penny (Lyrics based on poem by William Butler Yeats)
Lucy Lockit
Tooth and Claw (Reprise)
Hamilton Peachum and Reporters
Lullaby for Junior
Jenny
Quarrel for Three
Polly Peachum, Lucy Lockit and MacHeath
Fol-de-rol-rol
MacHeath
Women, Women, Women
Prisoners
Women, Women, Women (Reprise)
The Cocoa Girl and Careless Love
When I Walk With You (Reprise)
MacHeath
The Hunted
MacHeath
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