Le Chalet
Le Chalet is an operetta in one act by Adolphe Adam( ) ...
Adapted into English by Thomas Haynes Bayly ()[] as The Swiss Chalet, or Why don't she Marry?, with music by Arthur Edward Shelden Seguin (1809-1852)[].
Also known in English simply as The Swiss Chalet or Why don't she Marry?.
1857 Performed as Why don't She Marry? by the Sefton Parry company for their very first performance on 14 September in the newly constructed Cape Town Theatre in Harrington Street. The rest of the porgramme consisted of A Kiss in the Dark (Morton) and A Thumping Legacy! (Morton). For the opening night new scenery was installed for the opening by Messrs Groom and Smith, the wardrobe "by Cantor of London and Walker of New York" and the orchestra under the direction of Mr Holt. A new drop-curtain was painted for the performances by Mr Smith.
1857: Performed as the opening production in Sefton Parry's first wooden theatre in Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 14 September (along with Morton's two plays Why don't she Marry? and A Thumping Legacy).
