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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. | 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. | ||
| − | 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 | + | 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 Griffinhoofe" (the pseudonym of George Colman the Younger], with songs and music composed and selected by Michael Kelly. This is confirmed by William Godwin's Diary in the Bodleian Library[http://godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dramatists/col01.html#col01-bio.] |
Revision as of 07:08, 15 March 2014
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).
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.
The Amazon website[1] also has a copy which suggests that the play was originally performed as written by "Arthur Griffinhoofe" (the pseudonym of George Colman the Younger], with songs and music composed and selected by Michael Kelly. This is confirmed by William Godwin's Diary in the Bodleian Library[2]
Performance history in South Africa
20 September 1826: Performed in Cape Town by the Garrison Amateur Company) in 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.)
Translations and adaptations
Sources
National Library of Australia website[3]
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stories-Musical-Griffinhoof-composed-selected/dp/B0000CY4FE
https://library.villanova.edu/Find/Record/969202
Bosman, 1928: pp.149,
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