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First performed in the Avenue Theatre, London, and the musical and vocal score published in London by Hopwood & Crew, 1894. | First performed in the Avenue Theatre, London, and the musical and vocal score published in London by Hopwood & Crew, 1894. | ||
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The Lady Slavey is a musical by George Dance ()[] and John Francis Crook ()[].
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The original text
The Lady Slavey was an 1894 operetta in two acts with a score by John Crook (with contributions by Henry Wood and Letty Lind, among others), to a libretto by George Dance (with additional lyrics by Adrian Ross, among others) which opened at the Royal Avenue Theatre in London on 20 October 1894
First performed in the Avenue Theatre, London, and the musical and vocal score published in London by Hopwood & Crew, 1894.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1895: Performed by the Wheeler-Edwardes Gaiety Company in the Opera House, Cape Town.
1903: Performed by the Wheeler Company in the Good Hope Theatre, Cape Town.
Sources
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.402, 416
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