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"Eureka!". ''[[SA Panorama]]'', July 1968: pp.40-41.
 
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Latest revision as of 20:06, 31 December 2025

Eureka! is a musical with book and lyrics by Percy Baneshik and Alfred Travers and music by Bertha Egnos

Also found as Eureka.

The original text

A musical play about the discovery of gold at Barberton. While this story about South African gold mining had characters representing immigrants from around the world - Americans, British, Europeans and Australians - it managed to avoid including among its many characters any black South Africans.

Translations and adaptations

Productions

1967: Produced by the Port Elizabeth Musical and Dramatic Society in July.

1968: Produced at the Johannesburg Civic Theatre from 14 March, directed and designed by Anthony Farmer, with Lawrence Folley and Pat Lancaster.

Sources

"Eureka!". SA Panorama, July 1968: pp.40-41.

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