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| − | ''[[Miss Helyett]]''("Miss Eliot") is a comic opera by Audran ()[], with a book by Maxime Boucheron ()[].
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| − | ==The original text==
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| − | Telling of the accidental meeting of an American girl and a French artist in the Pyrénées, it was first performed in French at the Bouffes Parisiens on November, 1890, and became immensely popular with Parisian audiences, being performed a staggering 816 times.
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| − | ==Translations and adaptations==
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| − | Originally adapted into English as ''[[Miss Decima]]'' by F.C. Burnand ()[], it was performed at the Criterion Theatre, London, opening on 23 July. In New York it opened under the title of [[Miss Helyett]] at the Star Theatre on 3 November, 1891, in a new production by David Belasco ()[].
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | 1894: Performed in English in the second half of the year by the '''[[Cairns James Company]]''' as part of their season in the [[Good Hope Theatre]], Cape Town, under the auspices of the [[Wheeler Theatre Company]].
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | Richard Traubner. 2004. ''Operetta: A Theatrical History''. Routledge: p.90[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=tkCTAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=Miss+Decima+Burnand&source=bl&ots=Ry2ks5hlbo&sig=ACfU3U3d8TJWW6m-01nfNfnVrKPA0AgGMg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwju-6jHppHnAhWGLMAKHXx9CbcQ6AEwEnoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=Miss%20Decima%20Burnand&f=false]
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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 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p.400
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