The Forty Thieves (1869 play)
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The Forty Thieves (1869 play)
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The Forty Thieves, subtitled Striking Oil in Family Jars, is an 1869 Victorian burlesque that Lydia Thompson's company debuted at Niblo's Garden in New York City on February 1, 1869. It ran for 136 performances. The work was written by Henry Brougham Farnie though it was primarily a "reconstructed" version of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, or Harlequin and the Genii of the Arabian Nights, which played at Covent Garden in 1866, with jokes and other new material added for an 1868 Liverpool produc
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