Knife, Feed, Huge

Mack the Knife was a murderer in The Threepenny Opera. What isn’t known is that Bob the Ladle, his gluttonous sidekick, got cut at the last minute.

The official problem seemed to come from the food budget needed to make Bob the Ladle’s feeds seem reasonable and with tickets being only three pennies, it was unsustainable.

However, an undercover reporter for the The Broadway Gazette found out that the actor who’d been slated to play Bob had been found with the director’s wife in flagrante delicto.

The actor was happy it was only his acting part that was cut.