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''[[We Fly by Night, or Long Stories]]'' is a "Musical Entertainment in Two Acts" by "Arthur Griffinhoof" (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.
 
 
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
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 South African Commercial Advertiser]] on 26 September 1826 (though, interestingly, the names of performers are not mentioned, only the roles.)
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
National Library of Australia website[http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3729497]
 
 
 
[http://godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dramatists/col01.html#col01-bio.]
 
 
 
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stories-Musical-Griffinhoof-composed-selected/dp/B0000CY4FE
 
 
 
http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Songs_Choruses_c_in_We_Fly_by_Night_Or_L.html?id=agxLHAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
 
 
 
 
 
http://wild.worldcat.org/title/we-fly-by-night-or-long-stories-a-musical-entertainment-in-two-acts/oclc/15439647?page=citation
 
 
 
https://library.villanova.edu/Find/Record/969202
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: pp.149,
 
 
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
 
 
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