Astonished at having a foreign princess in their house the Woralls began to advertise the fact. ‘Princess Caraboo’ delighted guests with her strange language and eccentric manners. She was a skilled ...

On April 3, 1817, a young woman appeared, seemingly out of nowhere, in the rural village of Almondsbury, just a few miles north of Bristol in southwest England. Dressed in a shabby black gown and ...

Goodspeed Musicals will present three new shows--Caraboo, Princess of Javasu, The '60s Project and Meet John Doe--at the Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, Connecticut. The first will be presented as a ...

In the spring of 1817, a mysterious woman in exotic clothes wandered into the English countryside and took everyone by surprise. Claiming to be a foreign princess, she charmed everyone with her ...

Since “Princess Caraboo” is a comedy about a possible con game-a mysterious “Asian princess” who pops up in the British countryside of 1817 and is taken up by a circle of gullible bankers and ...

Kevin Kline works up a comic Greek accent and a fussy air as he performs a labor of love for his own princess bride, Phoebe Cates, in “Princess Caraboo.” But despite some humorous moments from America ...

The true story of servant Mary Baker’s masquerade as the exotic Princess Caraboo makes an amusing footnote in English history. Phil Willmott’s engaging musical uses this story to explore themes of ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

Thursday 3 April 1817 was a strange day indeed in the village of Almondsbury, near Bristol; the events that unfolded, quickly brought the village notoriety. An extraordinary woman, wearing a black ...

Soon she became restless and left Bristol, still pretending to be French, but using her own contrived language, begging at various places along the road to Gloucester. This disguise proved successful ...