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Opening
December 3, 1750
Closing:
May 13, 1751
Length of Run:
5 perf.
Run Type:
Open-ended
Location Info
Location: New York, NY
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Musical Numbers
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Act One
- Through All the Employments of Life .... Peachum
- Tis the Woman that Seduces all Mankind .... Filch
- If Any Wench Venus's Girdle Wear .... Mrs. Peachum
- If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade .... Mrs. Peachum
- A Maid is Like the Golden Oar .... Mrs. Peachum
- Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower in Its Lustre .... Polly
- Our Polly Is a Sad Slut .... Mrs. Peachum
- Can Love Be Controlled by Advise? .... Polly
- Oh Polly, You Might Have Toy'd and Kissed .... Mrs. Peachum & Polly
- I, Like a Ship in Storms, was Tossed .... Polly
- A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir .... Peachum
- Oh Ponder Well .... Polly
- The Turtle Thus with Plaintive Crying .... Polly
- Pretty Polly, Say .... Macheath & Polly
- My Heart Was So Free .... Macheath
- Were I Laid on Greenland's Coast .... Macheath & Polly
- Oh What Pain It is to Part .... Polly & Macheath
- The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees .... Macheath & Polly
Act Two
- Fill Every Glass .... Matt o' the Mint & Chorus
- Let Us Take the Road .... Matt o' the Mint & Chorus
- If the Heart of a Man is Depressed with Cares .... Macheath
- Youth's the Season Made for Joys .... Macheath & Ladies' Chorus
- Before the Barn-Door Crowing .... Jenny Diver
- The Gamesters and Lawyers are Jugglers Alike .... Jenny Diver
- At the Tree I Shall Suffer with Pleasure .... Macheath
- Man May Escape from Rope and Gun .... Macheath
- Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat .... Lucy
- How Cruel Are the Traitors .... Lucy
- The First Time at the Looking-Glass .... Macheath
- When You Censure the Age .... Lockit & Peachum
- Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir? .... Lucy
- You'll Think e'er Many Days Ensue .... Lockit
- If You at an Office Solicit Your Due .... Macheath
- Thus when the Swallow, Seeking Prey .... Polly
- How Happy Could I Be with Either .... Macheath
- I'm Bubbled .... Polly & Lucy
- Cease Your Funning .... Polly
- Why How Now, Madam Flirt? .... Lucy & Polly
- No Power on Earth Can e'er Divide .... Polly
- I, Like the Fox, Shall Grieve .... Lucy
Act Three
- When Young at the Bar You First Taught Me to Score .... Lucy
- My Love Is All Maddness and Folly .... Lucy
- Thus Gamesters United in Friendship are Found .... Lockit
- The Modes of the Court So Common are Grown .... Macheath
- What Gudgeons Are We Men .... Lockit
- In the Days of My Youth .... Mrs.Trapes
- I'm Like a Skiff on the Ocean Tossed .... Lucy
- When a Wife's in her Pout .... Lucy
- A Curse Attends that Woman's Love .... Polly & Lucy
- Among the Men Coquets we Find .... Polly
- Come, Sweet Lass .... Lucy
- Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes .... Polly & Lucy
- Which Way Shall I Turn Me? .... Macheath
- When My Hero in Court Appears .... Polly
- When He Holds Up His Hand .... Lucy
- Ourselves, like the Great, to Secure a Retreat .... Lockit
- The Charge is Prepared .... Macheath
- O Cruel, Cruel, Cruel Case! .... Macheath
- Of all the Friends in Time of Grief .... Macheath
- Since I Must Swing
- But now again my Spirits Sink
- But Valour the Stronger Grows
- If Thus--A Man Can Die
- So I Drink off this Bumper
- But can I Leave my Pretty Hussies
- Their Eyes, Their Lips, Their Busses
- Since Laws Were Made for Every Degree
- Would I Might Be Hang'd .... Lucy, Polly, Macheath & Chorus
- Thus I Stand Like the Turk .... Macheath
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Trivia & History
Performances on December 3 and 10, 1750, January 1 and 21, 1751, February 18, 1751 and May 13, 1751.
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Production Info
Previews:
no date entered yet
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Opening
December 3, 1750
Closing:
May 13, 1751
Length of Run:
5 perf.
Run Type:
Open-ended
Location Info
Location: New York, NY
Venues
Main Run
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Theatre in Nassau Street (New York, NY)
December 3, 1750 - May 13, 1751 [opening and closing date are total run; the show was performed sporadically in repertory]
