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    Beggar's Holiday

    For the 1934 film, see Beggar's Holiday (film).

    1946 musical

    Beggar's Holiday is a musical with a book and lyrics by John La Touche and music by Duke Ellington.

    History and background

    The project originated with black scenic designer Perry Watkins, who envisioned a jazz-driven adaptation of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera. Watkins hired John Latouche, who'd written lyrics for the cantata "Ballad for Americans" and "Cabin in the Sky," and teamed him with Ellington, still best known at the time as a band leader.[1]

    Ellington and Latouche updated the play's locale to a modern American city and turned Macheath into what Bowers calls "a pin-stripe-suited mobster, a singing, dancing Bugsy Siegel." The book itself mixed jazz and blues rhythms with more traditional musical theater, including comedy numbers written for Zero Mostel, making his Broadway debut as Peachum.[1]

    The Broadway production, directed by Nicholas Ray and choreographed by