The Beggar's Opera
The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today.
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George Devine
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George Rose
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Kenneth Williams
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Roger Daltrey
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Jonathan Miller
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Yvonne Furneaux
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Guy Green
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Hugh Griffith
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Stanley Holloway
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Stuart Burge
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Dorothy Tutin
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Mary Clare
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Denis Cannan
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Peter Brook
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Herbert Wilcox
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Athene Seyler
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Eric Pohlmann
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Christopher Fry
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Sandra Dorne
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Peter Brookes
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Ken Williams
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Margot Grahame
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Yonatan Miller
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Gerald Lawson
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Bombardier Billy Wells
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Daphne Anderson
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John Gay
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