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GOLDEN CITY A musical romance of the South African gold rush Written and composed by John Toré and Stephen Mitchell Adelphi Theatre, London 15 June. 1950 (140 perfs) SYNOPSIS Set in the South African Gold Rush days of the 1880s, with scenes set in a Cape Town music hall, a Johannesburg Saloon, and a “realistic” Zulu uprising, this was an extremely lavish spectacle. It was a love story about a young American telephone engineer and a local beauty, Danny Martin, and local beauty, Sarie van Selm, and the efforts of Mabel Page to establish herself in the Cape Town music-hall circuits. (CHARACTERS in order of appearance) Sarie van Selm Tanta de Villiers - Guardian to the sisters. Anna van Selm Bokkie van Selm Ningi Piet van Niekerk Dirk Marais Mabel Page Danny Martin Tabooka Barney Delaney Katrina du Toit Captain of the Guard Oupa Smit The Witch Doctor Rickshaw Driver AT THE TIVOLI Tivoli Girls Strong Man Seal Trainer Ballet Dancers Bearded Lady Madame Arabella Mont-Smith Girl in the Window The Boys AT MABEL'S SALOON Little Flossie Ethel Barman Rosie Cordova Bill Mavis, the pianist Fire-eater CHORUS OF: Diggers, Workmen, Malays, Coons, Zulus, Saloon Girls, Tivoli Girls, Farm boys and girls. Ladies and gentlemen of Cape Town, etc. SYNOPSIS OF SCENES ACT I CAPE TOWN: MARCH, 1886 1. Green Market Square. 2. A Street in Cape Town. 3. Backstage at the Tivoli Theatre. 4. The Drawing Room in Tanta's House. 5. The Kat-Castle Courtyard. ACT II JOHANNESBURG: SEPTEMBER, 1886 1. Outside Mabel's Saloon. 2. The Road to the Farm. 3. Sarie's Farm. 4. The Grapevines on Sarie's Farm. 5. Mabel's Saloon. 6. The Road to the Farm. 7. Sarie's Farm.

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