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''[[Gentleman Joe, The Hansom Cabbie]]'' is a farcical musical comedy with music by Walter Slaughter and a libretto by Basil Hood.

Also found simply as '''''[[Gentleman Joe]]'''''

==The original text==

The original production of the musical opened at the Prince of Wales's Theatre on 2 March 1895 and ran for a very successful 391 performances. In America there was a production at Miner's Theatre in Newark, New Jersey in late 1895 which then transferred to the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City in January 1896.

==Translations and adaptations==

Possibly the source for ''[[Gentleman Joe]]'', a 1910 black-and-white American silent film.

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1902-3: Performed as ''[[Gentleman Joe]]'' by the [[Mouillot-De Jong Company]], at the [[Opera House]], Cape Town, as part of a season of musical comedy and light opera beginning in December of 1902 and running into 1903.

==Sources==

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentleman_Joe

[[D.C. Boonzaier]]. 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage",  in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)

[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.

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