Music by Kurt Weill
Text & lyrics by Bertold Brecht
English adaptation by Marc Blitzstein

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53rd Season
November 1972

Produced by
Joanne Hines

Directed by
Paul R. Barstow

Music Director
Robin Esch

 


Cast
Street Singers
Mr J.J. Peachum
Mrs. Peachum
Kathy Huffman
Polly Peachum
Joanna Gerngross
Macheath
Ray Huffman
Jenny
Reverend Kimball
Tiger Brown
Filch
Wayne Hold
Constable Smith
Ronald Nau
Lucy Brown
Messenger
Mack's Gang
Bob The Saw
Randy Rice
Crookfingered Jake
Ready-money Matt
John Butman
Walt Dreary
Tom Jackson
Girls
Betty
Dorothy Brown
Dolly
Buffie Groves
Molly
Jane Alexander
Coaxer
Cathy Mann
Policeman
Randy Rice
Beggar
Jim Knowles

 

Musical Numbers

Prologue, The Market Soho
Ballad of Mack the Knife
ACT I - Monday Night
Scene 1. Peachum's Beggar's Outfit Shop
Morning Anthem
Scene 2: An empty Stable
Instead of Song
Wedding Song
Pirate Jenny
Army Song
Wedding Song (reprise)
Love Song
Scene 3: Peachum's Beggar's Outfit Shop
Ballad of Dependency
First Threepenny Finale
The World is Mean
ACT II - Thursday Afternoon
Scene 1.The Stable
Melodrama & Polly's Song
Interlude: A Street
Ballad of Dependence (Reprise)
Scene 2: A Brothel in Wapping
Tango Ballad
Scene 3: Newgate Prison
Ballad of the Easy Life
Barbara Song
Jealousy Duet
Second Threepeny Finale
How to Survive
ACT III - Friday Morning - 3 AM
Scene 1: Peachum's Beggar's Outfit Shop
Useless Song
Interlude: A street
Solomon Song
Scene 2: Newgate Prison Death Cell
Call From the Grave #1
Call From the Grave #2
Death Message
Passage to the Gallows
Third Threepeny Finale
The Mounted Messenger
Ballad of Mack the Knife (reprise)

 

Crew
Stage Manager
Set and Lighting design
John Fishback
Rehearsal Pianist
George Albertus
set construction
Fred Barstow
Costumes
Lenore Larkin
Props & Set dressing
Light Crew
Trevor Fougere
Projection graphics
Projection photography
Wayne Denat
Sound
Makeup

 

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