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Revision as of 06:47, 6 June 2020
Les Fêtards ("The revellers") is a French operetta in 3 acts and 4 tableaux by Antony Mars (1862-1915)[1] and Maurice Hennequin (1863-1926)[2], with music by Victor Roger (1853-1903)[].
Title also found as Les Fétards (e.g. in Wearing, 2013)
Contents
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 George Edwardes ()[], with music by Edward Talbot ()[], performed in Bristol in 1900.
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
Robert Ignatius Letellier. 2015. Operetta: A Sourcebook (Volume I), Cambridge Scholars Publishing:p. 340, Google E-book[3]
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[4]
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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