The Threepenny Opera | Act Three Summary
Scene Seven opens on the Peachum Emporium in preparation for their grand plan of disrupting the coronation ceremony with "a demonstration of human misery.'' This is a massive campaign: nearly fifteen-hundred men are preparing signs. The whores traipse in for their payoff, which Mrs. Peachum refuses to pay because Macheath has escaped. Jenny lets it slip that Macheath is with the whore Suky Tawdry, so Peachum sends word to the constables. Mrs. Peachum sings a stanza from "The Ballad of Sexual Obsession." Brown enters and threatens to arrest the lot of the beggars, but Peachum blackmails...
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