Cox and Box

Or The Long-Lost Brothers, is a 1866 one-act comic opera with a libretto by F. C. Burnand and music by Arthur Sullivan. It was Sullivan's first successful comic opera. 

The original text
Based on the 1847 farce Box and Cox by John Maddison Morton.

Performance history in South Africa
Staged by the Port Elizabeth Gilbert & Sullivan Society in 1971.

Staged by the Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society in 1960, 1967 and 1972.

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