Beggar's Opera

Mr. and Mrs. Peachum are horrified when they learn of their daughter Polly''s secret marriage to the rebellious and notorious highwayman, Macheath. However, their fear is soon mitigated when they decide to kill him for his money. When Macheath is in the tavern, surrounded by women of ''ill repute'', he discovers that he has been rumbled: two of these women are in cahoots with the Peachums and plan...