Les Dominos Roses

Les Dominos Roses is a farce by Alfred Delacour and Alfred Hennequin. .

It tells of a plan by two wives to test their husbands' fidelity at a masked ball and a mischievous maid who causes comic complications by wearing a gown similar to those worn by the wives. First performed in Paris in 1876.

Translated and adapted into English as The Pink Dominos, a farce in three acts, by James Albery. The English piece opened on March 31, 1877 and was exceptionally successful, running for a record-setting 555 performances at the Criterion Theatre, London.

The French play also formed the basis of Der Opernball ("The Opera Ball", 1898)[1], a German operetta in three acts with by Richard Heuberger, Viktor Léon and Heinrich von Waldberg as well as To-Night's the Night (1914)[2], a musical comedy by Paul Rubens, Percy Greenbank and Fred Thompson.