We Fly by Night, or Long Stories

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

1826: Performed in Cape Town on 20 September as We Fly by Night 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 (though, interestingly, the names of performers are not mentioned, only roles.)

Sources

National Library of Australia website[1]

http://godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dramatists/col01.html#col01-bio.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stories-Musical-Griffinhoof-composed-selected/dp/B0000CY4FE

http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Songs_Choruses_c_in_We_Fly_by_Night_Or_L.html?id=agxLHAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

http://wild.worldcat.org/title/we-fly-by-night-or-long-stories-a-musical-entertainment-in-two-acts/oclc/15439647?page=citation

https://library.villanova.edu/Find/Record/969202

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 149,

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