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== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
  
Robert Ignatius Letellier. ''Operetta: A Sourcebook'' (Volume I), p. 340[]
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Robert Ignatius Letellier. 2015. ''Operetta: A Sourcebook'' (Volume I), Cambridge Scholars Publishing:p. 340[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=z5jWCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA338&lpg=PA338&dq=Les+F%C3%A9tards+Mars&source=bl&ots=ITCObqiJON&sig=ACfU3U2I5XLN2wsKGDdgVkeLrIdp63QjHA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwju95DjrOzpAhVSuHEKHd8iACYQ6AEwAnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Les%20F%C3%A9tards%20Mars&f=false]
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J.P. Wearing. 2013. ''The London Stage 1890-1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel''. (Second, revised edition, p. 71). Scarecrow Press, Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=o5JWAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&dq=Kitty+Grey+by+J.+Smith+Pigott&source=bl&ots=1PSDOP2IdM&sig=ACfU3U2MZKV2fX2gq9s0whIK9g-V6DB8Gw&hl=en&s]
 
J.P. Wearing. 2013. ''The London Stage 1890-1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel''. (Second, revised edition, p. 71). Scarecrow Press, Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=o5JWAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&dq=Kitty+Grey+by+J.+Smith+Pigott&source=bl&ots=1PSDOP2IdM&sig=ACfU3U2MZKV2fX2gq9s0whIK9g-V6DB8Gw&hl=en&s]

Revision as of 06:40, 6 June 2020

Les Fêtards ("The revellers") is a French operetta in 3 acts and 4 tableaux by Antony Mars (1862-1915) and Maurice Hennequin (1863-1926), with music by Victor Roger (1853-1903)[].


The original text

First performed in the Théâtre du Palais Royal, Paris, on 28 October, 1897.

Translations and adaptations

Adapted into English as a musical comedy called Kitty Grey by George Edwardes ()[], with music by Edward Talbot ()[], performed in Bristol in 1900.

Adapted into English as a musical comedy called Kitty Grey by J. Smyth Pigott ()[]

Performance history in South Africa

1902: Performed in English as Kitty Grey by an unnamed Gaiety Company in the Good Hope Theatre, Cape Town, as part of a short season.

Sources

Robert Ignatius Letellier. 2015. Operetta: A Sourcebook (Volume I), Cambridge Scholars Publishing:p. 340[1]

J.P. Wearing. 2013. The London Stage 1890-1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. (Second, revised edition, p. 71). Scarecrow Press, Google E-book[2]

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 Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.411-2

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