Fritz, Our Cousin German

Fritz, Our Cousin German is a play by Charles Gayler (1820–92)[],

Also found as The Adventures of Fritz, Our Cousin German

A play first performed in on July 11, 1870, in Wallack's Theatre, New York, later music was added. It contains the character "Fritz van Vonderblinkenstoffen", based on and often performed by Joseph Kline Emmett, who had developed the "Fritz" character in minstrel variety shows, and a character that would become the source of a range of "Fritz" plays. Possibly also the British musical performed in Cape Town by Charles Arnold in 1895, referred to as Captain Fritz by Boonzaier (and said by Bosman, 1980, to be by Henry Hamilton).

1895: According to Boonzaier a musical called Captain Fritz was performed in Cape Town by Charles Arnold in 1895. (It is said by Bosman, 1980, to be a work by Henry Hamilton, but no such work has yet been traced).

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