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''Die Dreigroschenoper'' is [[Bertolt Brecht]] and [[Kurt Weill]]'s [[Darker and Edgier]] adaptation of John Gay's ''[[The Beggar's Opera|The Beggars Opera]]''. Despite the title, [[Non-Indicative Name|it's a musical]].

* [[The Alcoholic]]: Mrs. Peachum.

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]:

The line forms on the right, dear, now that Mackie's back in town. }}

* [[Anachronism Stew]]: The story nominally takes place in 1904. While the "Cannon Song" and its discussion of colonial warfare would seem to place the story in the mid to late 1800s, the coronation the play is centered around is that of Queen Victoria, thus implying an earlier date. Not to mention that the play its adapted from was written and set in the 1700s. Oh, and Macheath in this play tends to dress as a [[Roaring Twenties]] gangster.

* [[The Queen's Latin]]: While productions in translation tend to give the rest of the cast a Cockney accent, which makes sense given the setting, Peachum and sometimes the rest of his family often gets a Scottish accent. This is because one historical stereotype of Scots is that they are Bible-beating misers, which describes the common interpretation of Peachum perfectly.

* [[Sociopathic Soldier]]: Macheath and Tiger Brown as shown in the "Cannon Song"

* [[Spiritual Successor]]: ''[[The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny]]''.

* [[Stylistic Suck]]: This was a device deliberately used in a lot of Brecht's work to achieve the proper "alienating" effect on the audience, and among other things, he wanted the music discordant and the cast to sing off-key.