The Bal Masqué - Revision history

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 ''[[The Bal Masqué]]'' is a comic work by an unknown author, performed in South Africa in the 1860s.
-The work is known by a variety of names, e.g. ''[[The Bal Masqué]]'' or ''[[Sloppy Sam the Confidential Ticket Collector]]''), ''[[The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)]]'' or simply ''[[The Bal Masqué]]'' or '''''[[Sloppy Sam]]'''''
+The work is known by a variety of names, e.g. ''[[Sloppy Sam the Confidential Ticket Collector]]'', ''[[The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)]]'', ''[[The Bal Masqué]]'' or ''[[Sloppy Sam]]''.
 ''This is not to be confused with '''''[[Le Bal Masqué]]''''', the comic opera by Arthur Henry Ward (1883–1959).''
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 == Sources ==
-[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.
+[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.191-2.
 Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. ''A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900'' Cambridge University Press[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=u9s8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA613&lpg=PA613&dq=Le+Bal+Masqu%C3%A9+Arthur+H.+Ward&source=bl&ots=j085voK1qt&sig=LGxx1zWIPYzXgxyp-fvQSpGG8vM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiFsaPmkITaAhXJ7xQKHVePC1kQ6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q=Le%20Bal%20Masqu%C3%A9%20Arthur%20H.%20Ward&f=false]

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 ''[[The Bal Masqué]]'' is a comic work by an unknown author, performed in South Africa in the 1860s.
-The work is known by a variety of names, e.g. ''[[The Bal Masqué]]'' or ''[[Sloppy Sam the Confidential Ticket Collector]]''), ''[[The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)]]'' or simply ''[[The Bal Masqué]]'' or ''[[Sloppy Sam]]''
+The work is known by a variety of names, e.g. ''[[The Bal Masqué]]'' or ''[[Sloppy Sam the Confidential Ticket Collector]]''), ''[[The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)]]'' or simply ''[[The Bal Masqué]]'' or '''''[[Sloppy Sam]]'''''
 ''This is not to be confused with '''''[[Le Bal Masqué]]''''', the comic opera by Arthur Henry Ward (1883–1959).''

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 The work is known by a variety of names, e.g. ''[[The Bal Masqué]]'' or ''[[Sloppy Sam the Confidential Ticket Collector]]''), ''[[The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)]]'' or simply ''[[The Bal Masqué]]'' or ''[[Sloppy Sam]]''
-This is not to be confused with '''''[[Le Bal Masqué]]''''', the comic opera by Arthur Henry Ward (1883–1959).
+''This is not to be confused with '''''[[Le Bal Masqué]]''''', the comic opera by Arthur Henry Ward (1883–1959).''
 ==The original text==

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 : Performed as in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, as ''[[The Bal Masqué, or Sloppy Sam the Confidential Ticket Collector]]'' during September by the [[OIO Christy's Minstrels]], led by [[Alfred Ray]] as "Sloppy Sam".
-: Performed as in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, as the "Grand sensation ''[[Bal Masqué]]''", on 6 November by the [[OIO Christy's Minstrels]], led by [[Alfred Ray]] as "Sloppy Sam", now performing as a [[Christy's troupe]] under the auspices of the [[Ray and Cooper Company]]. Also on the programme were ''[[The Harvest Storm]]'' (Hazlewood) and "Prof Pepper's ''Ghost'', as exhibited at the Polytechnic, London".
+: Performed as in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, as the "Grand sensation ''[[Bal Masqué]]''", on 6 November by the [[OIO Christy's Minstrels]], led by [[Alfred Ray]] as "Sloppy Sam", now performing as a [[Christy's troupe]] under the auspices of the [[Ray and Cooper Company]]. Also on the programme were ''[[The Harvest Storm]]'' (Hazlewood) and "Prof Pepper's ''[[Ghost]]'', as exhibited at the Polytechnic, London".
 : A "side-splitting entertainment" called ''[[The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)]]'' was performed by the dramatic company of the [[9th Regiment]] in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town on 8 June, with ''[[Othello in Ireland]]'' ("semi-serio" opera based on Shakespeare).

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 : Performed as in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, as ''[[The Bal Masqué, or Sloppy Sam the Confidential Ticket Collector]]'' during September by the [[OIO Christy's Minstrels]], led by [[Alfred Ray]] as "Sloppy Sam".
-: Performed as in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, as the "Grand sensation ''[[Bal Masqué]]''", on 6 November by the [[OIO Christy's Minstrels]], led by [[Alfred Ray]] as "Sloppy Sam", now performing under the auspices of the [[Ray and Cooper Company]]. Also on the programme were ''[[The Harvest Storm]]'' (Hazlewood) and "Prof Pepper's ''Ghost'', as exhibited at the Polytechnic, London".
+: Performed as in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, as the "Grand sensation ''[[Bal Masqué]]''", on 6 November by the [[OIO Christy's Minstrels]], led by [[Alfred Ray]] as "Sloppy Sam", now performing as a [[Christy's troupe]] under the auspices of the [[Ray and Cooper Company]]. Also on the programme were ''[[The Harvest Storm]]'' (Hazlewood) and "Prof Pepper's ''Ghost'', as exhibited at the Polytechnic, London".
 : A "side-splitting entertainment" called ''[[The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)]]'' was performed by the dramatic company of the [[9th Regiment]] in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town on 8 June, with ''[[Othello in Ireland]]'' ("semi-serio" opera based on Shakespeare).

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	1865: Performed as in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, as ''[[The Bal Masqué, or Sloppy Sam the Confidential Ticket Collector]]'' during September by the [[OIO Christy's Minstrels]], led by [[Alfred Ray]] as "Sloppy Sam".		1865: Performed as in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, as ''[[The Bal Masqué, or Sloppy Sam the Confidential Ticket Collector]]'' during September by the [[OIO Christy's Minstrels]], led by [[Alfred Ray]] as "Sloppy Sam".
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		+	1865: Performed as in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, as ''[[The Bal Masqué, or Sloppy Sam the Confidential Ticket Collector]]'' on 6 November by the [[OIO Christy's Minstrels]], led by [[Alfred Ray]] as "Sloppy Sam", now performing under the auspices of the [[Ray and Cooper Company]]. Also on the programme were ''[[The Harvest Storm]]'' (Hazlewood) and "Prof Pepper's ''Ghost'', as exhibited at the Polytechnic, London".

	1867: A "side-splitting entertainment" called ''[[The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)]]'' was performed by the dramatic company of the [[9th Regiment]] in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town on 8 June, with ''[[Othello in Ireland]]'' ("semi-serio" opera based on Shakespeare).		1867: A "side-splitting entertainment" called ''[[The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)]]'' was performed by the dramatic company of the [[9th Regiment]] in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town on 8 June, with ''[[Othello in Ireland]]'' ("semi-serio" opera based on Shakespeare).

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−	1865: Performed as in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, as ''[[The Bal Masqué, or Sloppy Sam the Confidential Ticket Collector]]'' during September by the [[OIO Christy's Minstrels]], led by [[Alfred Ray]] as "Sloppy Sam".

	Described as a "side-splitting entertainment", this was apparently a vaudeville style act, well known in Cape Town in the 1860s and probably brought here by the [[Christy Minstrels]] in 1862.		Described as a "side-splitting entertainment", this was apparently a vaudeville style act, well known in Cape Town in the 1860s and probably brought here by the [[Christy Minstrels]] in 1862.