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Les Fêtards ("The revellers") is a French operetta in 3 acts and 4 tableaux by Antony Mars (1862-1915)[1] and Maurice Hennequin (1863-1926)[2], with music by Victor Roger (1853-1903)[3].
Title also found as Les Fétards (e.g. in Wearing, 2013)
Contents
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 play called Kitty Grey by George Edwardes ()[], with music by Edward Talbot ()[], and first performed in Bristol in the Prince's Theatre, Bristol on 27 August, 1900.
The play was then again adapted and/or expanded into English as a musical comedy also called Kitty Grey by J. Smyth Pigott ()[], with lyrics by Adrian Ross ()[], and music by Edward Talbot ()[], Augustus Barratt ()[], Lional Monckton ()[] and Paul Rubens ()[]
Performance history in South Africa
1902: Performed in English as Kitty Grey (Bosman, 1980: p. 412) suggests the Pigott version) by an unnamed Gaiety Company in the Good Hope Theatre, Cape Town, as part of a short season there.
Sources
Robert Ignatius Letellier. 2015. Operetta: A Sourcebook (Volume I), Cambridge Scholars Publishing:p. 340, Google E-book[4]
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[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Mars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Roger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Hennequin
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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