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    The Merry Zingara; Or, The Tipsy Gipsy & The Pipsy Wipsy was the third of W. S. Gilbert's five burlesques of opera. Described by the author as "A Whimsical...
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    tea instead of alcoholic drink appeared in Gilbert's The Merry Zingara (1868), a burlesque of The Bohemian Girl. In "My name Is John Wellington Wells"...
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    Royalty Theatre (category Former buildings and structures in the City of Westminster)
    nights, and a burlesque by W. S. Gilbert, The Merry Zingara. The theatre was managed by Henrietta Hodson during the early 1870s. She also produced mostly...
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    Dulcamara, or the Little Duck and the Great Quack (1866), La Vivandière; or, True to the Corps! (1867), The Merry Zingara; or, the Tipsy Gipsy and the Pipsy Wipsy...
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    breeches role at the Royalty, Florestein, in W. S. Gilbert's The Merry Zingara (1868). In 1869, at the Gaiety Theatre, she created the role of Alice in...
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    or, True to the Corps!, a parody of Donizetti's La fille du régiment (1867). The others were The Merry Zingara; or, the Tipsy Gipsy and the Pipsy Wipsy...
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    the valet Max, in Gilbert's burlesque, The Merry Zingara, a parody of The Bohemian Girl. In 1868 she joined the company of the Strand Theatre in the burlesque...
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    in the first column, along with any further information (such as the source of an adaptation). The genre appears in the second column, and if the piece...
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    The Merry Zingara, played in 1869. The last night of Miss Oliver's lesseeship was 30 April 1870, when a revival of Black-eyed Susan was given for the 490th...
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  • Wren (1867), a Christmas pantomime. The Merry Zingara (1868), a parody of Michael Balfe's The Bohemian Girl Robert the Devil (1868), a parody of Meyerbeer's...
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