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''[[Les Fétards]]'' is a French musical comedy by Antony Mars ()[] and Maurice Hennequin ()[].  
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''[[Les Fêtards]]'' ("The revellers") is a French operetta in 3 acts and 4 tableaux by Antony Mars (1862-1915) and Maurice Hennequin (1863-1926), with music by Victor Roger (1853-1903)[].  
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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
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First performed in the Théâtre du Palais Royal, Paris, on 28 October, 1897.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
  
Adapted into English as '''''[[Kitty Grey]]''''' by J. Smyth Pigott ()[]
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Adapted into English as a musical comedy called '''''[[Kitty Grey]]''''' by J. Smyth Pigott ()[]
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==

Revision as of 06:34, 6 June 2020

Les Fêtards ("The revellers") is a French operetta in 3 acts and 4 tableaux by Antony Mars (1862-1915) and Maurice Hennequin (1863-1926), with music by Victor Roger (1853-1903)[].


The original text

First performed in the Théâtre du Palais Royal, Paris, on 28 October, 1897.

Translations and adaptations

Adapted into English as a musical comedy called Kitty Grey by J. Smyth Pigott ()[]

Performance history in South Africa

1902: Performed in English as Kitty Grey by an unnamed Gaiety Company in the Good Hope Theatre, Cape Town, as part of a short season.

Sources

J.P. Wearing. 2013. The London Stage 1890-1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. (Second, revised edition, p. 71). Scarecrow Press, Google E-book[1]

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: pp.411-2

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