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A Ballad-play (1788) being the second part of The Beggar's Opera by JOHN GAY with Cy Grant
Jane Wenham , Edric Connor
The traditional ballads newly arranged by Christopher Whelen
THE Introduction:
Scene- The stage of the Playhouse, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
POLLY- an opera: Scene: In the West Indies
Players, servants, pirates, guards piaved bv members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company with the Ambrosian Singers

Contributors

Unknown:
Cy Grant
Unknown:
Jane Wenham
Arranged By:
Christopher Whelen
Mr Gay, the Poet:
Godfrey Kenton
Mr Rich the Player:
Haydn Jones
Signora Crotchetta:
June Tobin
Mrs Diana Trapes:
Marjorie Westbury
Mr Ducat:
William Eedle
Damans:
Pearl Prescod
Flimzy:
Hilda Kriseman
Pollv Peachum:
Jane Wenham
Mrs ' Ducat:
June Tobin
West Indian Soldier:
Charles Hyatt
Pirate 'Hacker:
Haydn Jones
Culverin:
Arthur Gomez
Capstern:
George Hagan
Laguerre:
Godfrey Kenton
Cutlace:
Kenneth Dight
Jenny Diver:
Peggy Butt
Morano:
Gordon Boyd
Vanderbluff:
Julian Somers
Prince Cawwawkee:
Cy Grant
King Pohetohee:
Edric Connor

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