• 
• Alfred Drake
• MacHeath
  

• 
• Zero Mostel
• Hamilton Peachum
  

• 
• Hy Anzell
• Customer
  

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• Marjorie Belle
• Lead Dancer
  The Girl
  The Lookout
  

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• Jack Bittner
• Highbinder
  Member of Mac's Gang
  

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• Perry Bruskin
• Member of Mac's Gang
  Mooch
  The Foot
  

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• Marie Bryant
• The Cocoa Girl
  

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• Stanley Carlson
• Fingersmith
  Member of Mac's Gang
  

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• Lewis Charles
• A Drunk
  Member of Mac's Gang
  

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• William Dillard
• Member of Mac's Gang
  The Horn
  

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• Malka Farber
• Dancer
  Trixy Turner
  

• 
• Paul Godkin
• Lead Dancer
  The Boy
  Wire Boy
  

• 
• Thomas Gomez
• Dancer
  The Other Eye
  The Pursued
  

• 
• Doris Goodwin
• Dancer
  Mrs. Trapes
  

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• Claire Hale
• Baby Mildred
  Dancer
  

• 
• Leonne Hall
• Betty Doxy
  

• 
• Douglas Henderson
• The Caser
  

• 
• Lucas Hoving
• Dancer
  Policeman
  Strip
  

• 
• Dorothy Johnson
• Mrs. Peachum
  

• 
• Elmira Jones-Bey
• Bessie Buns
  Dancer
  

• 
• Nina Korda
• Minute Lou
  

• 
• Avon Long
• Careless Love
  

• 
• Jet MacDonald
• Polly Peachum
  

• 
• Tommie Moore
• Tawdry Audrey
  

• 
• Gordon Nelson
• Black Marketeer
  Customer
  Member of Mac's Gang
  O'Heister
  

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• Lavina Nielson
• Dancer
  Dolly Trull
  

• 
• Bernice Parks
• Jenny
  

• 
• Albert Popwell
• Dancer
  Plainclothesman
  Slam
  

• 
• Herbert Ross
• Bartender
  Dancer
  Policeman
  

• 
• Archie Savage
• Cop
  Dancer
  Gunsel
  

• 
• Mildred Joanne Smith
• Lucy Lockit
  

• 
• Rollin Smith
• Chief Lockit
  

• 
• Pan Theodore
• Blenkinsop
  The Eye
  

• 
• Royce Wallace
• Annie Coaxer
  Dancer
  

• 
• Enid Williams
• Dancer
  Flora
  

• 
• Max Meth
• Musical Director
  

• 
• Albert Pearl
• Orchestra Personnel Manager
  

• 
• John La Touche
• Book
  Lyrics
  

• 
• Duke Ellington
• Music
  

• 
• William Butler Yeats
• Lyrics of "Brown Penny" based on poem
  

• 
• John Gay
• Based on "The Beggar's Opera"
  

• 
• Nicholas Ray
• Book Direction
  

• 
• Valerie Bettis
• Choreographer
  

• 
• Walter Florrell
• Costume Design
  

• 
• Peggy Clark
• Lighting Design
  Technical Supervisor
  

• 
• Oliver Smith
• Production Design
  

• 
• Frank Coletti
• General Stage Manager
  

• 
• Kevin Smith
• Stage Manager
  

• 
• Charles O. Carey
• Stage Manager
  

• 
• Leo Rose
• General Manager
  

• 
• Lorella Val-Mery
• Press Representative
  

• 
• Perry Watkins
• Producer
  

• 
• John R. Sheppard, Jr.
• Producer