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THE BEGGAR'S OPERA By MR. GAY New Settings of the Airs and Additional Music by Frederic Austin. CAST PEACHUM.........................FREDERIC AUSTIN LOCKIT..........................ARTHUR WYNN MACHEATH........................FREDERICK RANALOW FILCH...........................ALFRED HEATHER THE BEGGAR......................ARNOLD PILBEAM MRS. PEACHUM....................ELSIE FRENCH POLLY PEACHUM...................SYLVIA NELIS LUCY LOCKIT.....................VIOLET MARQUESITA DIANA TRAPES....................BERYL FREEMAN JENNY DIVER.....................NONNY LOCK Drawer: DAVID HODDER Turnkey: JACK GIRLING Members of Macheath's Gang: ALAN TROTTER, MALCOLM RIGNOLD, JOHN CLIFFORD, EDWARD BARRS, CHARLES STAITE Women of the Town: VERA HURST, ELLA MILNE, WINIFRED CHRISTIE, MILDRED WATSON, SYDNEY LEON, EDITH BARTLETT PERIOD 1728 ACT I. PEACHUM'S HOUSE ACT II. Sc. i. A TAVERN. Near Newgate Sc. ii. NEWGATE ACT III. Sc. i. A STREET Sc. ii. NEWGATE Sc. iii. THE CONDEMN'D HOLD Scenes and Costumes designed by C. Lovat Fraser. Produced by NIGEL PLAYFAIR