The Gipsy Revellers
The Gipsy Revellers was a concert group that, dressed in 18th century Neapolitan Gipsy costumes, performed "Gypsy" music and dances
Founded by Liebe and Newton in 1889, the company enjoyed some fashionable success in London for a while. The members of the company included, inter alia, Lilian Bayliss, Willie Bayliss and Ethel Bayliss.
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Performance history in South Africa
1890: The Gipsy Revellers appeared in the Vaudeville Theatre, Cape Town, under the auspices of the Wheeler Theatre Company toward the end of the year. The production is remembered by the Cape Town critic D.C. Boonzaier as "gigantic failure" (cited in Bosman, 1980: p.391).
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.391
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