Little Jack Horner, or Harlequin ABC
Little Jack Horner, or Harlequin ABC is an English pantomime.
(Also found as Little Jack Horner, or Harlequin A.B.C.)
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The original text
A Pantomime by this name was performed at the Drury Lane Theatre, London in the 1857–8 season.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1865: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Messrs Alfred Ray and R.S. Cooper on 26-27 December, and claimed by William Groom (cited by F.C.L. Bosman, 1980: pp. 192-3) to have been an original work penned by a Mr B. Mollan of Cape Town. According to the flier for the presentation a "new" overture and music was composed by Mr W.G. Browne, choreography of dances was by Mrs R.I. Cooper, scenery by Mr R.S. Cooper, properties and masks by Mr Der. F. la Yar, mechanical contribution by Mr W.G. Browne, Harlequinade and Pantomimic business by Mr Alfred Ray, and Herr Luin, comic scenes painted by Mr C.J.M. Smith.
1866: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Messrs Ray and Cooper on 4 and 6 January.
