We fly by Night

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Full title: We Fly by Night, or Long Stories. A Musical Entertainment in Two Acts by George Colman (1762-1836), with music by Michael Kelly. First Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden on January 28, 1806, and published by T. Woodfall in the same year. Also Published by D. Longworth, at the Dramatic Repository, Shakspeare-Gallery, New York in 1815.

The Amazon website[1] also has a copy which suggests that the play was originally performed as written by "Arthur Griffinhoof" (the pseudonym of George Colman the Younger], with songs and music composed and selected by Kelly.

In one of the websites[2], Picard, L-B. (1769-1828) is mentioned as "other author" of the play.


Performance history in South Africa

20 September 1826: Performed in Cape Town by the Garrison Amateur Company) in The Cape Town Theatre, with A Cure for the Heartache (Morton). A quite comprehensive review of the production appeared in the The Commercial Advertiser on 26 September 1826 (though, interestingly, the names of performers are not mentioned, only the roles.)

Translations and adaptations

Sources

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stories-Musical-Griffinhoof-composed-selected/dp/B0000CY4FE

http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Songs_Choruses_c_in_We_Fly_by_Night_Or_L.html?id=agxLHAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y


http://wild.worldcat.org/title/we-fly-by-night-or-long-stories-a-musical-entertainment-in-two-acts/oclc/15439647?page=citation

https://library.villanova.edu/Find/Record/969202

Bosman, 1928: pp.149,

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