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''[[Mam'zelle Nitouche]]'' is a French vaudeville-opérette in three acts by Hervé ()[], Henri Meilhac ()[] and Albert Millaud ()[].
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''[[Mam'zelle Nitouche]]'' (approx. "Little Miss Hypocrite") is a French vaudeville-opérette in three acts by Hervé ()[], Henri Meilhac ()[] and Albert Millaud ()[].
  
  
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==Translations and adaptations==
 
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Numerous film have been made of the work between 1912 and 1976 - see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mam%27zelle_Nitouche for a list. 
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==

Revision as of 06:14, 17 January 2020

Mam'zelle Nitouche (approx. "Little Miss Hypocrite") is a French vaudeville-opérette in three acts by Hervé ()[], Henri Meilhac ()[] and Albert Millaud ()[].


The original text

Composed by Hervé, with a libretto by Meilhac and Millaud, the musical play tells the story of a respectable musician, transforming himself into a songwriter at night, and is in part based on the life of the composer himself.

It was first performed at the Théâtre des Variétés, Paris on 26 January 1883.

Translations and adaptations

Numerous film have been made of the work between 1912 and 1976 - see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mam%27zelle_Nitouche for a list.

Performance history in South Africa

1894: Performed in English in the second half of the year by the Cairns James Company as part of their season in the Good Hope Theatre, Cape Town, under the auspices of the Wheeler Theatre Company.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mam%27zelle_Nitouche

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.400

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