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[[Johnny Briggs]] was an English cricketer and singer.

He was a member of the first English cricket team to play in South Africa in 1888, a team led by [[C. Aubrey Smith]], who would later become famous as a stage and film actor, actor.

On 24 December of that year the members of the team attended and took part in a "[[smoking concert]]" held in their honour in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], Cape Town. The concert had two parts, first a [[Christy Minstrel]] show, that included a comic ditty called "The Man that Struck O'Hara". The second half saw songs by local celebrities such as [[Tom Graham]], a talk on public entertainers by [[Robert Baden-Powell]], as well as other team members, such as the manager [[Major Warton]] and the popular [[Johnny Briggs]]. [[C.D. Boonzaier]], of the

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-He was a member of the first English cricket team to play in South Africa in 1888, a team led by [[C. Aubrey Smith]], who would later become famous as a stage and film actor, actor.
+Briggs was a popular member of the first English cricket team to play in South Africa in 1888, a team led by [[C. Aubrey Smith]], who would later become famous as a stage and film actor.
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-[[Johnny Briggs]] was a famous English cricketer and amateur singer.
+[[Johnny Briggs]] (1862-1902)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Briggs_(cricketer)] was a famous English cricketer and amateur singer.
 == Biography ==
 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==

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	[[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.)		[[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.)

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-[[Johnny Briggs]] was an English cricketer and singer.
+[[Johnny Briggs]] was a famous English cricketer and amateur singer.
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 On 24 December of that year the members of the team attended and took part in a "[[smoking concert]]" held in their honour in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], Cape Town. The concert had two parts, first a [[Christy Minstrel]] show, that included a comic ditty called "The Man that Struck O'Hara". The second half saw songs by local celebrities such as [[Tom Graham]], a talk on public entertainers by [[Robert Baden-Powell]], as well as other team members, such as the manager  [[Major Warton]]  and the popular [[Johnny Briggs]]. The critic and chronicler of theatre in the Cape, [[D.C. Boonzaier]], was himself involved in the event, helping to blacken the faces of the performers in the [[Christy]] show.
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	He was a member of the first English cricket team to play in South Africa in 1888, a team led by [[C. Aubrey Smith]], who would later become famous as a stage and film actor, actor.		He was a member of the first English cricket team to play in South Africa in 1888, a team led by [[C. Aubrey Smith]], who would later become famous as a stage and film actor, actor.

−	On 24 December of that year the members of the team attended and took part in a "[[smoking concert]]" held in their honour in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], Cape Town. The concert had two parts, first a [[Christy Minstrel]] show, that included a comic ditty called "The Man that Struck O'Hara". The second half saw songs by local celebrities such as [[Tom Graham]], a talk on public entertainers by [[Robert Baden-Powell]], as well as other team members, such as the manager [[Major Warton]] and the popular [[Johnny Briggs]]. [[C.D. Boonzaier]], of the	+	On 24 December of that year the members of the team attended and took part in a "[[smoking concert]]" held in their honour in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], Cape Town. The concert had two parts, first a [[Christy Minstrel]] show, that included a comic ditty called "The Man that Struck O'Hara". The second half saw songs by local celebrities such as [[Tom Graham]], a talk on public entertainers by [[Robert Baden-Powell]], as well as other team members, such as the manager [[Major Warton]] and the popular [[Johnny Briggs]]. The critic and chronicler of theatre in the Cape, [[D.C. Boonzaier]], was himself involved in the event, helping to blacken the faces of the performers in the [[Christy]] show.
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		+	== Biography ==
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		+	==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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		+	== Sources ==
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		+	[[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.)
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		+	[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp.
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		+	[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.
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