Mam'zelle Nitouche
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Mam'zelle Nitouche is a French vaudeville-opérette in three acts by Hervé ()[], Henri Meilhac ()[] and Albert Millaud ()[].
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.
1894: Performed in English for the first time in South Africa in the second half of the year to enormous enthusiasm 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.
