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Script Page for "The Threepenny Opera"
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A page from the working script for "The Threepenny Opera" production at the Theatre de Lys in New York City in 1954. The page is from the start of the opera and includes the lyrics for the Ballad of Mack the Knife and has handwritten notations on it done by Marc Blitzstein.
1954
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W014E5C
WHi 137252
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