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Revision as of 06:42, 25 May 2016
We Fly by Night, or Long Stories is a "Musical Entertainment in Two Acts" by "Arthur Griffinhoof" (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.
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 South African 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[1]
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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