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| − | ''[[Fritz, Our Cousin German]]'' is a play by Charles Gayler (1820–92)[],
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| − | Also found as '''''[[The Adventures of Fritz, Our Cousin German]]'''''
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| − | ==The original text==
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| − | A play first performed in on July 11, 1870, in Wallack's Theatre, New York, later music was added. It contains the character "Fritz van Vonderblinkenstoffen", based on and often performed by Joseph Kline Emmett, who had developed the "Fritz" character in minstrel variety shows, and a character that would become the source of a range of "Fritz" plays. Possibly also the British musical performed in Cape Town by [[Charles Arnold]] in 1895, referred to as '''''[[Captain Fritz]]''''' by [[D.C. Boonzaier|Boonzaier]] (1923) and said by [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] (1980), to be a musical play by Henry Hamilton.
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| − | ==Translations and adaptations==
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | 1895: A musical called ''[[Captain Fritz]]'' was performed in Cape Town by [[Charles Arnold]] in 1895.
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | Julian Mates. 1987. ''America's Musical Stage: Two Hundred Years of Musical Theatre'' ABC-CLIO.[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=i5mFCD5qRHcC&dq=Fritz,+Our+Cousin+German+by+Charles+Gayler&source=gbs_navlinks_s]
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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 1923. (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]]: pp.
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