The run closed May 13, 1751
- Opened
- December 3, 1750
- Closed
- May 13, 1751
- Performances
- 5
- Previews
- 0
- Theatre
- Nassau Street Theatre
Of the 1 productions we hold that opened in the 1750s and record a performance count, this is the 1st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Beggar's Opera 6 more that season
| 1854 | Broadway Theatre Revival | |
| 1855 | Niblos Garden Revival | |
| 1859 | Niblos Garden Revival | 2 perf. |
| 1920 | Greenwich Village Theatre Revival | 37 perf. |
| 1928 | 48th Street Theatre Revival | 36 perf. |
| 1973 | Billy Rose Theatre Revival · Gene Lesser | 6 perf. |
Who was in it16 named
Mrs Davis
Nancy George
Mr Jago
Thomas Kean
Mr Leigh
Mrs Leigh
Mr Marks
Mr Moore
Dickie Murray
Walter Murray
Mrs Osborn
Mr Scott
Mr Smith
Mrs Taylor
John Tremain
Charles Somerset Woodham
0 of these 16 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 16 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for The Beggar's Opera at all.
- No director named.
- No show page for The Beggar's Opera. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.