| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Beggar's Opera' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; includes programme extracts with cast lists; printed flyers; magazine extracts with photographs of cast members in the various productions and scenes from the opera; typescript throughout gives cast lists and dates; new settings of the airs and additional music by Frederic Austin
Performed at The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London, 5 Jun 1920, closing performance (1469th) 15 Dec 1923; presented and produced by Nigel Playfair; scenery and dresses by Claude Lovat Fraser; dances by Marian Wilson; The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London, 23 Jun 1925, closing performance (31st) 15 Aug 1925; The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London, 22 May 1923, closing performance, 12 Jun 1926; The Lyric Theatrre, Hammersmith, London, 14 Feb 1928, closing performance, 4 Apr 1928; presented by Nigel Playfair; scenery and costumes by C. Lovat Fraser; dances arranged by Marian Wilson; The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London, 11 Mar 1929, closing performance, 3 Apr 1929; The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London, 13 May 1930, closing performance, 21 Jun 1930; The Criterion Theatre, London, 6 Mar 1935; presented by the Daniel Mayer Company in conjunction with Howard Wyndham and Bronson Albery; produced by Stephen Thomas; scenery and costumes from the designs of Claud Lovat Fraser
Transferred to: The Comedy Theatre, London, 8 Apr 1935, closing performance, 27 Apr 1935; The Haymarket Theatre, London, 5 Mar 1940, closing performance, 25 May 1940; presented by Glyndebourne Productions Ltd by arrangement with Frederick Harrison Trust Ltd; directed by John Gielgud; orchestra under the direction of Frederic Austin and Michael Mudie; decor by Motley; The Peoples Palace Theatre, London, 11 Oct [1940?]; presented by the English Opera Group
On tour: 1924: The West Pier, Brighton; 1927: The Wimbledon Theatre; The New Theatre, Boston; 1933: The Winter Gardens, New Brighton; 1938: The Theatre Royal, Glasgow; The Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh; The Theatre Royal, Birmingham; The Theatre Royal, Newcastle-on-Tyne; The Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool; The Theatre Royal, Nottingham; The Opera House, Manchester; The Theatre Royal, Brighton; 1940: The Prince of Wales's Theatre, Cardiff; 1941: The Opera House, Manchester
America: The Greenwich Village Theater, New York, 27 Dec 1920
The 48th Street Theatre, New York, 7 Apr 1928 (37 performances); presented by J. C. Duff in association with A. L. Jones and Morris Green
Casts: Frederick Austin, Arthur Wyn, Frederick Ranalow, Alfred Heather, Arnold Pilbeam, Elsie French, Sylvia Nelis, Violet Marquesita, Nonny Lock, Beryl Freeman, David Hodder, Jack Garling, Alan Trotter, Charles Staite, Edward Barrs, Malcolm Rignold, John Clifford, Vera Hurst, Ella Milne, Enid Lindsay, Winifred Christie, Lilian Stanford, Edith Bartlett, Mildred Watson, A. Dennison, Scott Russell, Tristan Rawson, Stanley Newman, Frederick Davies, Fergus Leslie, Kathlyn Hilliard, Rose Hignell, Katherine Arkandy, Lilian Stanford, Vivian Roberts, Pamela Baselow, Alice Mason, Angela Baddeley, Janet Ross, Esme de Vayne, Dorothy Smithard, Maisie Evans, Phyllis Blackburne, Miles Malleson, Sara Allgood, Fedora Bernard, Beryl Freeman, T. Durac Minogue, Pilton Wilson, Alfred Atkins, Edwin Iles, Norman Edwards, Hilda Miles, Dora Jay, Vera Berry, Winifred Grace, May Rodwell, Vere Wootten, Fred Dawson, Robert Bishop, C. Morgan Rickards, H. Tenison, Florence Stafford, Lollie Potter, May Ashley, Ruby Bedford, May Webster, Harold Cropton, Marguerite Dalmeyde, Ethel Beard, Janet Campbell, Doris Lyndon, Hugh Wyndham, Eric James, George Richardson, James Davis, Henry Curry, Walter Berry, Paul Beresford, Harold Wildbridge, William Ravenscroft, T. Bezet Bodycombe, Edward de Lusrat, Mai Ramsay, Marjorie Ronald, June Macdonald, Wynn Yray, Marjorie Day, Nellie Vergan, Elsie Asherberg, Nan Bowie, Leon Underwood, Townsend Whitling, Norman Edwards, Stanley Vilven, Kathleen Alcock, Jean Collier, Nelly Griffiths, Alice Cooley, Daisy May, Teddy Miles, Herbert Fenwick, Margot O' Callaghan, Dora Jay, Mark Raphael, Violet Marquesita, Betty Warner, David Horder, Cecily Nicks, Margaret Elwes, Yootha Rose, Rose Hignell, Olive Groves, Vera Robson, David Hodder, Charles Staite, Dewey Gibson, Ella Milne, Haigh Jackson, Patrick Ward, Evan Davies, Arnold Walters, Malcolm Rignold, Cherry Cottrell, Rita Tait, Marjorie Dixon, Alice Mason, Mary Woodville, Joyce Ridge, Guelda Waller, Denys Hoey, Charles Mayhew, Colin Cunningham, Harold Scott, George Hancock, Max Oldaker, T. E. James, Eric Sivyer, Anthony Brian, Bruce Dargavel, J. B. Vogel, Margaret Yarde, Joan Collier, Isabel Jeans, Vivienne Chatterton, Valerie Hay, Jessica Roland, Truman Taylor, Monica Warner, Enid Norwood, Sybil Evers, Gladys Holmes, Winifred Radford, George Gregson, Charles Macgrath, Norman Williams, Lena Maitland, Celia Turrell, George Baker, Frank Napier, Noel Willman, Roy Henderson, Bruce Flegg, Constance Willis, Audrey Mildmay, Michael Redgrave, Dunstan Hart, Maldwyn Thomas, Philip Lewtas, Peter Land, Michael Stoller, Frederick Bush, Edward Barrs, George Wrael, Appleton Moore, Rosemary Michael, Rita Mackay, Brenda Clether, Peggy Hale, Mae Craven, Ruby Gilchrist, Anne Crecy, Gwen Bateman, Rosamund Dalton, Frederick Bush, Joseph Farrington, Linda Gray, Alys Brough, John Gielgud, Noel Willman, Rose Hill, Peter Pears, Nancy Evans, George James, Otaker Kraus, Arthur Lucas, Doris Francis, Leo Sheffield, Walter Cross, Gwen Bateman, Anne Crecy, Jack Martin, Harvey Braban, Jack Martin, William Worsley, Edmund Donlevy, Marjorie Pegram, Adelaide Stanley, Gerald Davies, Allan Bourne Webb |