Original Vintage Poster: The Beggar's Opera - BAM, Brooklyn
Poster ID: CL90465
Category: Theatrical/Stage and Plays
Designer: Tom Balchunas
Year: 1970s
Actor / Director: Joseph Palmieri, Gordon Connell, John Long, Jeanne Arnold, Kathleen Widdoes, By John Gay with Score Newly Realized by Ryan Edwards, Directed by Gene Lesser
Country: American
Approximate Size 26 x 17 inches
Condition: Very Good
Condition Note: Tear in edge right side.
1972 Production from The Chelsea Theater Center of Brooklyn in Residence at The Brooklyn Academy of The Beggar's Opera, a satirical ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with a new score by Ryan Edwards, Directed by Gene Lesser. The work "deals with social inequity on a broad scale, primarily through the comparison of low-class thieves and whores with their aristocratic and bourgeois 'betters.' (Wikipedia)
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