Difference between revisions of "Brown and the Brahmins"

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-''[[Brown and the Brahmins]]'' is a burlesque by Reece
+#REDIRECT[[Brown and the Brahmins, or Captain Pop and The Princess Pretty-eyes!]]
-[[An Ashantee Dance and Chorus]] presented by "a band of coloured boys picked from the the streets of Cape Town" under the leadership of [[Mr Elton]], under the auspices of [[Disney Roebuck]] in July 1875. The novelty of seeing coloured folk on the stage for the first time combined with their "extrvagant contortions of body and limb and grotesque action" apparently set audiences in a furore, though the idea was well received by ''The Argus'' on July 27.
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