Productions2 on Broadway
| 1954 | Theatre de Lys Original. March 10, 1954 · Carmen Capalbo | 95 performances |
| 2006 | Studio 54 Revival. April 20, 2006 · Scott Elliott | 77 performances |
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Among the more than 200 actors who played the 22 parts during the show’s run were Carole Cook, Valerie Bettis, and Dolly Haas (Jenny); James Mitchell and Jerry Orbach (Mack); Pert Kelton and Nancy Andrews (Mrs. Peachum); Georgia Brown (Lucy); Edward Asner (Peachum); and Estelle Parsons (Mrs. Coaxer). book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p154
America saw the first musical comedy in 1750 when a traveling company offered the premiere North American showing of The Beggar's Opera (whose most celebrated spinoff was Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera). book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p21
The reason for the two engagements noted above is that the initial showing of Marc Blitzstein’s English-language version of the Kurt Weill-Bertold Brecht Die Dreigroschenoper at the Theatre de Lys (now the Lucille Lortel) had to be terminated because of a prior booking. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p183
At this writing, the return engagement is the second longest running production ever mounted Off Broadway. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p183
At the same festival, Marc Blitzstein’s adaptation of The Threepenny Opera premiered, and it was Brooks who created the role of Blitzstein’s Macheath; and during the musical’s marathon Off-Broadway run beginning in the mid-1950s, Atkinson was one of many performers who played Macheath. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p370
There have been a number of film versions of The Beggar’s Opera and The Threepenny Opera. The latter has been adapted as The 3 Penny Opera (1931; Lotte Lenya and Rudolph Forster); The Threepenny Opera (1964; Hildegarde Neff, Curt Jurgens, Sammy Davis, Jr.); and Mack the Knife (1989; Raul Julia and Julia Migenes). book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p618
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