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The Shop Girl is a musical farce in two acts by H.J.W. Dam ()[], Ivan Caryll ()[], Adrian Ross ()[] and Lionel Monckton ()[].
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The words for the play were by H.J.W. Dam, with music by Ivan Caryll and additional numbers by Adrian Ross and Lionel Monckton.
An early example of what became known as "Edwardian musical comedy" and - along with A Gaiety Girl (Hall, 1893) - part of the Gaiety movement and among the first of many other "girl"-themed musicals.
Published in London by Hopwood & Crew, copyrighted in 1895.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1894: Performed in South Africa in the second half of the year by the Cairns James Company as part of their season in the Good Hope Theatre, Cape Town, under the auspices of the Wheeler Theatre Company.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shop_Girl
https://www.worldcat.org/title/shop-girl-musical-farce/oclc/9225865
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 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.400
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