| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Threepenny Opera', based on 'The Beggar's Opera' by John Gay; English translation by Marc Blitzstein; with photographs of members of the cast and cast lists; includes programme with cast list and typescript dates 1956; printed flyer 1956; magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the musical; also includes magazine cutting of a photograph and brief biography on Bertolt Brecht
Performed at The Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London, 9 Feb 1956; presented by Oscar Lewenstein, Wolf Mankowitz and Helen Arnold for Peachum Productions Ltd; directed by Sam Wanamaker; musical direction by Berthold Goldschmidt; decor by Caspar Neher; dances arranged by Tutte Lemkow
Transferred to: The Aldwych Theatre, London, 21 Mar 1956, closing performance, 9 Jun 1956; then to: The Comedy Theatre, London, 19 Jun 1956, closing performance, 14 Jul 1956
Originally at: The Royal Theatre, Brighton, 30 Jan 1956
America: Theatre de Lys, New York, Jan 1956; staged by Carmen Capalbo
Casts: Ewan MacColl, Una Victor, Victor Baring, Aliki Hansen, Patricia Black, Sylva Langova, Renee Goddard, George Murcell, Warren Mitchell, George Tovey, Charles Hill, Eric Pohlmann, Lisa Lee, Daphne Anderson, George A. Cooper, Charles Stanley, Maria Remusat, Georgia Brown, Roland Randel, Michael Murray, John Corbett, Bill Owen, Jean Arnold, Joe Elic |