![]() ![]() Over that same summer of 2021, the shiny glass building across the street had been the site of a series of drug busts by the NYPD reviews of the building online had called it a haven for coke dealers, gangsters, and all-night Airbnb parties. “Seems more like something you’d find at 95 Wall Street?” Indeed, 95 was far more malefic than 75. “You sure you’re in the right building?” he said. At one point, the night doorman offered them a little investigative advice. "Oh, London is a Fine Town" - Mrs.A couple of weeks went by and the feds returned."What Shall I Do to Show How Much I Love Her?" - Polly."Of All the Sinful Things We Do?" - Mrs."Why is your faithful Slave disdained?" - Mrs."An Old Woman Clothed in Gray" - Peachum.The narrator (the Beggar), notes that although in a properly moral ending Macheath and the other villains would be hanged, the audience demands a happy ending, and so Macheath is reprieved, and all are invited to a dance of celebration, to celebrate his wedding to Polly. He declares that he is ready to be hanged. However, Macheath now finds that four more pregnant women each claim him as their husband. They plead with their fathers for Macheath's life. Polly narrowly avoids the poisoned drink, and the two girls find out that Macheath has been recaptured owing to the inebriated Mrs Diana Trapes. Meanwhile, Polly visits Lucy to try to reach an agreement, but Lucy tries to poison her. Lockit and Peachum discover Macheath's hiding place. Her father learns of Macheath's promise to marry her and worries that if Macheath is recaptured and hanged, his fortune might be subject to Peachum's claims. Lucy helps Macheath to escape by stealing her father's keys. Macheath pacifies her, but Polly arrives and claims him as her husband. She tells him that to see him tortured would give her pleasure. His daughter, Lucy Lockit, has the opportunity to scold Macheath for having agreed to marry her and then broken this promise. The prison is run by Peachum's associate, the corrupt jailer Lockit. Macheath discovers, too late, that two of them (Jenny Diver and Suky Tawdry) have contracted with Peachum to capture him, and he becomes a prisoner in Newgate prison. Macheath goes to a tavern where he is surrounded by women of dubious virtue who, despite their class, compete in displaying perfect drawing-room manners, although the subject of their conversation is their success in picking pockets and shoplifting. Upset to learn they will no longer be able to use Polly in their business, Peachum and his wife ask how Polly will support such a husband "in Gaming, Drinking and Whoring." Nevertheless, they conclude that the match may be more profitable to the Peachums if the husband can be killed for his money. ![]() The Peachums discover that Polly, their daughter, has secretly married Macheath, the famous highwayman, who is Peachum's principal client. Mrs Peachum, overhearing her husband's blacklisting of unproductive thieves, protests regarding one of them: Bob Booty (the nickname of Robert Walpole). Peachum, a fence and thief-catcher, justifies his actions. A number of the cast members have not been identified by their first names and so have been listed by the name that appears in the original programme.
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