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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
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by James T. Tanner and Alfred Murray, lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank, with music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton, with additional numbers by Paul Rubens.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 06:47, 12 September 2020

The Messenger Boy is a musical by J.T. Tanner and S. Murray.

The original text

by James T. Tanner and Alfred Murray, lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank, with music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton, with additional numbers by Paul Rubens.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1901: Performed by the Wheeler Brothers in the Good Hope Theatre, Cape Town, in June, with a Gaiety Company that included Mabel Nelson, Harold Thorley and Mr Danby .

Sources

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: p.409

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