Le Bal Masqué
Le Bal Masqué ("The masked ball") is a comic opera by Arthur H. Ward ()[], with music by H. Vernon.
Sloppy Sam
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The original text
According to Allardyce Nicoll, this was first performed at the Parkhurst Theatre on 16 May, 1898.
Translations and adaptations
A "side-splitting entertainment" called The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam) was apparently well known in Cape Town in the 1860s and is ascribed to Arthur H. Ward by F.C.L. Bosman (1980: p. 260). However this is unlikely to be true and it may simply have been another, earlier, burlesque-style work.
Performance history in South Africa
1867: A "side-splitting entertainment" called The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam) was performed by Le Roy and Duret in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town on 8 June, with Othello in Ireland ("semi-serio" opera based on Shakespeare).
1867: The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam) repeated by Leroy and Duret in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town on 15 June, with The Rose of Ettrick Vale ().
Sources
Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900 Cambridge University Press[1]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.
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