Un Service à Blanchard

Un Service à Blanchard ("A service to Blanchard") is a vaudeville in 1 one act by Eugène Lemoine-Moreau (1806-1876) and Alfred Delacour (1817-1783)

The original text
First performed in Paris at the, Gymnase, on 6 April 1852.

Translations and adaptations
Adapted from the French vaudeville as To Oblige Benson by Tom Taylor (1817-1880) and termed a comedietta in one act. First performed on 6 March 1854, at the Royal Olympic Theatre, London. The English text published by Samuel French, 1854.

Performance history in South Africa
1861: Performed as To Oblige Benson by Sefton Parry and his company on 19 September in the Theatre Royal, with Black-Ey'd Susan (Jerrold).

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