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Of course, Thom brings up a good point: Threepenny Opera is Brecht's rewrite of Gay's Beggar's Opera -- which leads to another question: do the 18th century and 20th century MacHeaths, Jenny Divers, Suky Tawdrys, et alia both exist in the League world's history?
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( "The Beggar's Opera" is the best-known of these.)
"Showtime," Larry Stempel's history of Broadway musicals, reviewed by Lloyd Rose Lloyd Rose 2010
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It's just like shooting Womp Rats back in Beggar's Canyon.
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Beggar's Petition ', published in his Poems on Several
Letter 5 2009
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Actor-manager John Rich commissioned The Beggar's Opera and made so much money, he could afford to put up the building.
The Royal Opera House: Welcome to the new people's palace | Observer Profile 2011
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( "The Beggar's Opera" is the best-known of these.)
"Showtime," Larry Stempel's history of Broadway musicals, reviewed by Lloyd Rose Lloyd Rose 2010
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Instead it was an intriguing song cycle in that English ballad tradition which travels from The Beggar's Opera via The Rake's Progress and Butterworth to the present.
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It's just like shooting Womp Rats back in Beggar's Canyon.
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THE OPERA HOUSE FILEBorn 1728, when the actor-manager John Rich commissioned John Gay to write The Beggar's Opera and did so well from it, he could afford to put up the theatre.
The Royal Opera House: Welcome to the new people's palace | Observer Profile 2011
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The Rape of the Lock, for example, or The Beggar's Opera have an obvious parodic element.
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