Frederick Ranalow
Frederick Ranalow( 7 November 18738 December 1953) was an Irish baritone who was distinguished in opera, oratorio, and musical theatre, but whose name is now principally associated with the role of Captain Macheath in the ballad opera" The Beggar's Opera", which he sang close to 1,500 times.
He was also a minor film actor and writer of songs.
Hannah Norsa
Hannah Norsa( first name sometimes spelt Hanna; c. 1712 – 28 August 1784) was an English Jewish actress and singer, who achieved fame appearing in John Gay's" The Beggar's Opera" in 1732 and became the mistress of Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford.
The Beggar's Opera (film)
The Beggar's Opera is a 1953 Technicolor film version of John Gay's 1728 ballad opera directed by Peter Brook and starring Laurence Olivier, Dorothy Tutin, Stanley Holloway and others.
Olivier and Holloway do their own singing in this film, but Dorothy Tutin and several others were dubbed.
This was Laurence Olivier's only film musical.
With additional dialogue and lyrics by Christopher Fry, the film expands on some elements in the opera, notably giving Mrs Trapes (Athene Seyler) a larger role and adding dramatic action sequences to Macheath's escape.
The framing device is also changed: the Beggar (Hugh Griffith) is himself a prisoner in Newgate with the real Macheath, who escapes at the end under cover of the confusion created when the Beggar decides that his fictional Macheath should be reprieved.
The film also includes one of the first film performances of the comic actor Kenneth Williams.
Nancy Dawson
Nancy Dawson was the stage name of Ann Newton( c.1728-1767), a London dancer and actress.
She rose to fame performing a solo rendition of a hornpipe between acts in" The Beggar's Opera" at Covent Garden Theatre in 1759.
The hornpipe tune is now known as" Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush".
Peter Brook
Peter Stephen Paul Brook, CH, CBE (born 21 March 1925) is an English theatre and film director who has been based in France since the early 1970s.
He has won multiple Tony and Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Praemium Imperiale, and the Prix Italia.
He has been called "our greatest living theatre director".
With the Royal Shakespeare Company, Brook directed the first English language production of "Marat/Sade" in 1964.
It transferred to Broadway in 1965 and won the Tony Award for Best Play, and Brook was named Best Director.
Etan Boritzer
Etan Boritzer( born 1950) is an American writer of children ’s literature who is best known for his book" What is God?" first published in 1989.
His best selling" What is?" illustrated children's book series on character education and difficult subjects for children is a popular teaching guide for parents, teachers and child- life professionals.
Boritzer gained national critical acclaim after" What is God?" was published in 1989 although the book has caused controversy from religious fundamentalists for its universalist views.
The other current books in the" What is?" series include
What is Love?,
What is Death?,
What is Beautiful?,
What is Funny?,
What is Right?,
What is Peace?,
What is Money?,
What is Dreaming?,
What is a Friend?,
What is True?,
What is a Family?,
What is a Feeling?"
The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age of 13 when he wrote an essay in his English class at Wade Junior High School in the Bronx, New York on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
His essay was included in a special anthology by New York City public school children compiled and published by the New York City Department of Education.
Boritzer now lives in Venice, California and maintains his publishing office there also.
He has helped numerous other authors to get published through" How to Get Your Book Published!" programs.
Boritzer is also a yoga teacher who teaches regular classes locally and guest- teaches nationally.
He is also recognized nationally as an erudite speaker on" The Teachings of the Buddha."
The Beggar Student (1931 German film)
The Beggar Student is a 1931 German operetta film directed by Victor Janson and starring, Jarmila Novotná and Fritz Schulz.
The film is based on the 1882 operetta" The Beggar Student".
A British version of the film" The Beggar Student" was also released the same year.
The film's art direction was by Botho Hoefer and Bernhard Schwidewski.
John Gay
John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club.
He is best remembered for "The Beggar's Opera" (1728), a ballad opera.
The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names.
Charles Coffey
Charles Coffey( late 17th century – 13 May 1745) was an Irish playwright, opera librettist and arranger of music from Westmeath.
Following the initial failure of his ballad opera" The Beggar ’s Wedding"( Dublin, Smock Alley Theatre, 24 March 1729)- a work capitalising on the success of John Gay's" The Beggar's Opera"( 1728)- he moved to London, where the work opened at the Haymarket on 29 May 1729.
In an abbreviated form as" Phebe, or The Beggar's Wedding" it became highly successful, although it was not to be heard in Dublin before 1754.
His fifth ballad opera," The Devil to Pay, or The Wives Metamorphos'd"( 1731) became the most successful ballad opera of the 18th century after" The Beggar's Opera".
A German translation as" Der Teufel ist los, oder Die verwandelten Weiber"( Berlin, 24 January 1743) strongly influenced the development of the German Singspiel.
Coffey died in London and was buried in the St Clement Danes.
Theodred II (Bishop of Elmham)
Theodred II was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
The date of Theodred's consecration unknown, but the date of his death was sometime between 995 and 997.

Question: When is the director of film The Beggar'S Opera (Film) 's birthday?
Answer: 21 March 1925