Beggar's Holiday

• Original Broadway Production (1946)
  New York, NY
• National Tour (1947)
• Concert Revival (1992)
• Musicals in Mufti Production (1999)
  New York, NY
• Regional Revival (2004)
• Regional Revival (2009)
  Pittsburgh, PA

Click on the title for info on the song.

Original score

• Inbetween
• The Chase
  • aka Was That Mac? [no note]
• When You Go Down by Miss Jenny's
• I've Got Me
• TNT
• Take Love Easy
• I Wanna Be Bad
• When I Walk with You
• Wedding Ballet
• The Scrimmage of Life
• Ore from a Gold Mine
• Tooth and Claw
• Maybe I Should Change My Ways
• The Wrong Side of the Railroad Tracks
• Tomorrow Mountain
• Chorus of Citizens
  • aka World Loves a Criminal, The [no note]
• Girls Want a Hero
  • aka Where Is My Hero? [no note]
• Lullaby for Junior
  • aka Nice Fate for Junior [no note]
• Quarrel for Three
  • aka Fight, The [no note]
• Fol-de-rol-rol
  • aka Fight, The [no note]
  • aka Folderolrol [no note]
• Brown Penny
• Women, Women, Women
  • aka Women Women Women [no note]
• Ballet
• The Hunted
• Rooster Man
• Live for the Moment
• When You're Older
• Hell Hath No Fury

Cut prior to opening

• Gumshoe Ballet
• Get Out
  • aka Git Out [no note]
• Loose Living
• Bible of My Days
• He So Charmed Me
• Jailhouse Lament
• Law and Disorder
• How Happy I Could Be with Either
• He Makes Me Believe
• Let Nature Take Its Course
• My Reward
• The Fatal Gimmick

Recordings listed here were done in the studio specifically to release as recordings. They do not represent cast recordings of a particular production.

• Original/Studio Cast (1946)
  

  • Libby Holman
  • Alfred Drake (i)
  • Bernice Parks
  • Avon Long
  • Jet MacDonald
• Original/Studio Cast (1946)
  

  • Alfred Drake (i)
  • Bernice Parks
  • Avon Long
  • Jet MacDonald
  • Dorothy Johnson

Based on John Gay's The Beggar's Opera

At a post-show discussion following a performance of the Musicals in Mufti production, Luther Henderson (who had helped reconstruct the score for that production) said that Billy Strayhorn wrote a good deal of the show's music.

• The Beggar's Opera (source material)
• Twilight Alley (Tryout title)