Tags: Musical.
Beggar’s Holiday is a musical with a book and lyrics by John La Touche and music by Duke Ellington.An updated version of The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay it focuses on a corrupt world inhabited by rakish mobsters and their double crossing gangs raffish madams and their dissolute whores panhandlers and street people as they conduct their dirty business ply their trade and struggle to survive in brothels shanty towns and prisons.The Broadway production directed by Nicholas Ray and choreographed by Valerie Bettis opened on December 26 1946 at The Broadway Theatre where it ran for 111 performances.
