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Most of the cast fill their roles with 18th century gusto. Teresa Toulouse, for example, combines the vengefulness of Gilbert and Sullivan's jilted Katisha with the coarse bumptiousness of Eliza the Flower Girl in her characterization of Lucy Lockit, Polly Peachum's rival for the love of the unfaithful highwayman Macheath. Joanna Blum as Mrs. Peachum also plays her role to the hit. Unscrupulous and unmarried, she jerks around the stage, hands on hips, spitting out cynical asides to the audience...
...Cameron is less impressive as her gray bewigged, dandified husband, but his gentlemanly affectations provide an effective visual and aural contrast to the antics of his partner in crime, the hard-drinking, Scottish jailor, Mr. Lockit (Daniel Frank). While Lisa Popick looks just right as Macheath's favorite prostitute Jenny Diver, Meredith Birdsall is completely inadequate as his favorite wife, Polly. Awkward and artificial, she sports a perpetually perturbed countenance and her attempts at crying are laughable...
...richly enough through the original Beggar's Opera. The dominant motif-Gay's as well as Brecht's-is that money is thicker than blood. By now, the characters are classic, and they all live up to their names: Peachum (Gordon Cornell), the informer and fence; Lockit (Ralston Hill), the venal jailer of Newgate; and MacHeath (Timothy Jerome), the saucy highwayman who can down a wench as quickly as a cup of sack. As two of the ladies of his choice, Polly Peachum (Kathleen Widdoes) and Lucy Lockit (Marilyn Sokol) are erotic sprites...
...women! I love the sex," sighs Macheath the Highwayman. "I must have 'em." But they have him, for when Macheath promises marriage to Polly Peachum, Polly's Parents bribe the gentleman robber's other bawds to turn him in for the reward. Mac's other love, Lucy Lockit, frees him, only to have him recaptured. And he would hang, were it not for every opera's prescribed happy ending. Macheath escapes from Tyburn and rejoins Polly in a fullthroated choral finale...
...indiscretion he has married Polly Peachum, and now the greedy Mr. Peachum turns his daughter's situation to his own advantage. With the treacherous aid of Macheath's lovely women, Peachum captures our hero and delivers him, for the reward, to Newgate Prison. The Captain's other wife, Lucy Lockit, frees him, but in another moment of indiscretion he is captured again, this time by both Mr. Lockit and Mr. Peachum. The Captain should hang, and in a tragedy he would hang, but this opera being a comedy, he lived, and all rejoice, the women a bit more than...