Note to Dr. Wolfe:

'The Black Crook' was perhaps the first real musical/burlesque show on the American stage in the mid-19th century.
(Who was the American artist RC who did the dancing girls [i.e., the cover for a booklet (early 20^th century) on the 'real story' behind the creation of the American Black Crook?)

Trying to steal a little of the success of the American production, Harry Paulton put on a 'Black Crook' in London (late 19^th century)
whose plot owed more to the fairy-comedy 'La biche au bois' ['A doe in the woods'] than to the earlier New York production.