Fritz, Our Cousin German
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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. It contains the character "Fritz van Vonderblinkenstoffen", based on and performed by Joseph Kline Emmett, who had developed the "Fritz" character in minstrel variety shows, and the character would become the source of a range of "Fritz" plays. Possibly also the British musical, Captain Fritz (said by Bosman, 1980, to be by Henry Hamilton).
The play was later turned into a musical.
Julian Mates. 1987. America's Musical Stage: Two Hundred Years of Musical Theatre ABC-CLIO.[1] By
