The Beggar's Opera 1859 - Articles Page 5

Opened: June 8, 1859

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At its London premiere in 1728, John Gay's rollicking Beggar's Opera caused a sensation. Lampooning the politics and public morality of the day, it became an instant hit.

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The Beggar's Opera FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What is the songs are in The Beggar's Opera and what's the order?
Through all the Employments of Life
'Tis Woman that Seduces all Mankind
If any Wench Venus's Girdle wear
If Love the Virgin's Heart invade
A Maid is like the golden Oar
Virgins Are like the fair Flower in its Lustre
Our Polly is a sad Slut! nor heeds what we have taught her
Can Love be controul’d by Advise?
O Polly, you might have toy'd and kist
I, like a Ship in Storms, was lost
A Fox may steal your Hens, Sir
Oh, ponder well! Be not severe
The Turtle thus with plaintive crying
Pretty Polly, say
My Heart was so free
Were I laid on Greenland's Coast
O what Pain it is to part!
The Miser thus a Shilling sees
Fill ev’ry Glass, for Wine inspires us
Let us take the Road
If the Heart of a Man is deprest with Cares
Youth's the Season made for Joys
Before the Barn-door crowing
The Gamesters and Lawyers are Jugglers alike
At the Tree I shall suffer with pleasure
Man may escape from Rope and Gun
Thus when a good Huswife sees a Rat
How cruel are the Traytors
The first time at the Looking-glass
When you censure the Age
Is then his Fate decreed, Sir?
You'll think e'er many days ensue
If you at an Office solicit your Due
Thus when the Swallow, seeking Prey
How happy could I be with either
I'm bubbled
Cease your Funning
Why how now, Madam Flirt?
No Power on Earth can e'er divide
I like the Fox shall grieve
When Young at the Bar you first taught me to score
My Love is all Madness and Folly
Thus Gamesters United in Friendship are found
The Modes of the Court so common are grown
What Gudgeons are we men!
In the Days of my Youth I could bill like a Dove, fa, la, la
I'm like a Skiff on the Ocean tost
When a Wife's in her Pout
A Curse attends that Woman's Love
Among the Men, Coquets we Find
Come, sweet Lass
Hither, dear Husband, turn your Eyes
Which way shall I turn me?
When my Hero in Court appears
When he holds up his Hand arraign’d for his life
Our selves, like the Great, to secure a Retreat
The Charge is prepar’d; The Lawyers are met
O cruel, cruel, cruel Case!
Of all the Friends in time of Grief
Since I must Swing, – I scorn, I scorn to wince or whine
But now again my Spirits sink
But Valour the stronger grows
If thus – A Man can die
So I drink off this Bumper. And now I can stand the Test
But can I leave my pretty Hussies
Their Eyes, their Lips, their Busses
Since Laws were made for ev’ry degree
Would I might be hang'd
Thus I stand like the Turk, with his Doxies around
When Gold Is in Hand
In Pimps and Politicians
In a Humor I Was of Late
Newgate Prison
Prisoner's Song
Macheath's Hanging
What productions of The Beggar's Opera have there been?
The Beggar's Opera has had 9 productions including West End which opened in 1920, Broadway which opened in 1920, Broadway which opened in 1928, Broadway which opened in 1928, Off-Off-Broadway which opened in 1964, West End which opened in 1968, Broadway which opened in 1973, Broadway which opened in 1973 and London Fringe which opened in 1992.

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