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| − | Full title: ''We Fly by Night, or Long Stories. A Musical Entertainment in Two Acts'' by "Arthur Griffinhoofe" George Colman Jr's (1762-1836) pseudonym. With music by Michael Kelly. An adaptation from the French play, ''Le conteur, ou, Les deux postes'' by Louis-Benoît Picard (1769-1828).
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| − | First Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden on January 28, 1806, and published by T. Woodfall and George Dobbin & Murphy, in the same year. Also Published by D. Longworth, at the Dramatic Repository, Shakspeare-Gallery, New York in 1815.
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| − | The Amazon website[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stories-Musical-Griffinhoof-composed-selected/dp/B0000CY4FE] also has a copy which suggests that the play was originally performed as written by "Arthur Griffinhoof" (the pseudonym of George Colman the Younger], with songs and music composed and selected by Michael Kelly. .
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | 20 September 1826: Performed in Cape Town by the [[Garrison Players|Garrison Amateur Company]]) in [[The African Theatre|The Cape Town Theatre]], with ''[[A Cure for the Heartache]]'' (Morton). A quite comprehensive review of the production appeared in the [[The Commercial Advertiser]] on 26 September 1826 (though, interestingly, the names of performers are not mentioned, only the roles.)
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| − | ==Translations and adaptations==
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | National Library of Australia website[http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3729497]
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| − | http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stories-Musical-Griffinhoof-composed-selected/dp/B0000CY4FE
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| − | http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Songs_Choruses_c_in_We_Fly_by_Night_Or_L.html?id=agxLHAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
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| − | http://wild.worldcat.org/title/we-fly-by-night-or-long-stories-a-musical-entertainment-in-two-acts/oclc/15439647?page=citation
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| − | https://library.villanova.edu/Find/Record/969202
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: pp.149,
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| − | Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
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| − | == Return to ==
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| − | Return to [[ESAT Plays 2 C|C]] in Plays II Foreign Plays
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| − | Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Plays]]
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| − | Return to [[The ESAT Entries]]
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