Robert Reece

He even scored a number of hits, including his adaptation of Les cloches de Corneville, which ran for over 700 performances in 1878–79, the longest run in the history of musical theatre up to that time.

Among his subsequent contributions to the same stage were the burlesques Prometheus (1865),[3] The Lady of the Lake (1866),[4] and Whittington Junior and his Sensation Cat (1871, starring Fred Sullivan and Henrietta Hodson).

[5] He also wrote for the Royalty Dora's Device, a comedietta (1871),[6] Little Robin Hood, a burlesque (1871), revived at the Gaiety Theatre (1882),[7] and Paquita, or Love in a Trance, a comic opera with music by J.

At the Gaiety, he produced fourteen pieces between 1872 and 1884, among them the pantomimes Ali Baba (1872), Don Giovanni in Venice (1873), The Forty Thieves, (written with F. C. Burnand, H. J. Byron and W. S. Gilbert) (1878) and another version of the same story, with music by Meyer Lutz in 1880;[12] and the burlesques Aladdin, (1881); Little Robin Hood, (1882); and Valentine and Orson, (1882).

[1] With Farnie, for the Folly Theatre in London, he wrote Up the River, or the Strict Kew-Tea (1877);[13] Stars and Garters (1878); his biggest success, Les cloches de Corneville (1878); and The Creole.

Also for the Alhambra, in 1881 he wrote an English-language adaptation of Jeanne, Jeannette and Jeanneton, a grand opera by P. Lacome after an original libretto by Clairville & Delacour.