[DOC] [TLE] The Threepenny Opera - Wikipedia [PAR] The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) is a "play with music" by Bertolt 
Brecht, adapted from German dramatist Elisabeth Hauptmann's translation of 
John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera, with music 
by .... Filch, a new beggar, is obliged to bribe his way into the profession and 
agree to... [DOC] [TLE] The Beggar's Opera - Wikipedia [PAR] The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay 
with music ... For his original production in 1728, Gay intended all the songs to be 
sung .... The opera was made into a film version in 1953, and starred Laurence ... 
both John Gay's The Beggar's Opera and Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera,
... [DOC] [TLE] Synopsis - The Threepenny Opera [PAR] The show opens with a mock-Baroque overture, a nod to Threepenny's source, 
The Beggar's Opera, ... a shabby figure comes onstage with a barrel organ and 
launches into a song ... In the first scene, he enrolls a new beggar with the help of 
his wife. ... but Mack doesn't know Mrs. Peachum has bribed Jenny to turn him in. [DOC] [TLE] The Threepenny Opera - Drama Online [PAR] Under the title The Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera has been performed 
... There is no reason why John Gay's motto for his Beggar's Opera  nos haec ..... 
at which they are aiming goes wrong, and suddenly it all turns into a dirty joke. [DOC] [TLE] The Beggar's Opera - Drama Online [PAR] John Gay's Beggar's Opera was a theatrical sensation when it was first ... Polly 
and Lucy plead for his life, as do four more women maintaining that he has 
married .... Gay expands their subject-matter, turning Virgil's study of rural labour 
into a ..... Gay's work into The Threepenny Opera, first performed in 1928 and 
filmed in a... [DOC] [TLE] The Threepenny Opera Written by Bertolt Brecht, with Music by Kurt ... [PAR] 'The Threepenny Opera' challenges conventional notions of property as well as ... 
has been translated into 18 languages and performed more than 10,000 times. ... 
Weill he later wrote 'The Threepenny Opera' (based on The Beggar's Opera). .... It 
was to his visual style that we first turned in making our production of 'The... [DOC] [TLE] Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera premieres in ... [PAR] The premiere of The Threepenny Opera on this day in 1928 came almost ... It was 
Bertolt Brecht's idea to adapt The Beggar's Opera into a new work that ... 
performersbut the music of Kurt Weill was just as important in turning it into a 
triumph. ... While this comment was intended as praise of Weill, who had by then 
fled his... [DOC] [TLE] The Threepenny Opera - Marc Blitzstein [PAR] The wedding scene from "The Threepenny Opera" Off-Broadway production, 
1954 ... He enrolls a new beggar with the help of his wife, after which they notice 
that ... the gang decisively as Mrs. Peachum bribes Jenny, Mack's old lover, to 
turn him in ... of a great theatrical work from one era into a successful work of a 
later era. [DOC] [TLE] An Opera for Beggars  Red Wedge [PAR] Aug 6, 2015 ... The English poet John Gay (1685-1732), whose Beggar's Opera ... No theater 
was daring enough to stage his play. ... Like its ancestor, The Threepenny Opera 
was a hit (despite the utter ... Firstly, Macheath is presented as a sexual being, 
which ultimately gets him turned into the police (after Peachum's... [DOC] [TLE] The Threepenny Opera - TCM.com [PAR] Consider the question of who created The Threepenny Opera (1931), ... At times, 
Wild upped the ante by not only returning the loot but turning in the alleged thief. 
... gang, and laughed as the authorities were duped into hanging his competitors. 
... and with that thought let's review the plot of The Beggar's Opera, written 170... [DOC]

Question: His "Beggar's Opera" was turned into "The Threepenny Opera"
Answer: John Gay