The Illustrious Stranger, or Married and Buried
A "comic operatic farce" in two acts by John Gideon Millingen and James Kenney.
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The original text
Originally written as a one act farce in prose called The Illustrious Stranger, or Married and Single and published in ‘Home Plays,’ London, 1862. It was apparently then turned into an operatic farce in two acts by Kenney and Millingen, with the aid of Joseph de Lefont and music by Isaac Nathan.
First performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane Printed by William Kenneth in 1827.
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Performance history in South Africa
1834: Performed in the Garrison Theatre by the Garrison Amateurs on Wednesday 19 November, 1834, as afterpiece to The Midnight Hour (Inchbald). The production was a benefit for Mrs Black.
Sources
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Dictionary_of_National_Biography_volume_37.djvu/453
https://archive.org/details/illustriousstra00nathgoog
F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman, 1928: p 194.
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