The Beggar's Opera Premieres
January 29, 1728
John Gay's ballad opera, set among London's whores and thieves, opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields. Audiences recognized Walpole's ministry behind the highwayman Macheath. It ran for an unheard-of sixty-two nights. Gay made Rich gay and Gay rich, ran the quip about his producer. English theater had discovered the political musical.
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