Bluebell in Fairyland

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Bluebell in Fairyland is a musical by Seymour Hicks ()[] and Walter Slaughter ()[].

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1903: Performed at the Opera House, Cape Town, by the visiting Mouillot Company some time in May or June.

1908: Performed at the Opera House, Cape Town, by the Wheeler Juvenile Opera and Musical Company during the Christmas season, featuring Dan Leno Jr. (said to be the son of the original Dan Leno) in the lead.

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 1923. (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. 414, 429


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