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pantomime
pantomime or mime [Gr.,=all in mimic], silent form of the drama in which the story is developed by movement, gesture, facial expression, and stage properties. It is known to have existed among the Chinese, Persians, Hebrews, and Egyptians and has been observed in many other cultures. Pantomime ... Read more
Jean Gaspard Deburau
Jean Gaspard Deburau , 1796-1846, French pantomime performer, whose original name was Jan Kaspar Dvorjak, b. Bohemia. He became famous for his introduction of the pantomime character Pierrot at the Théâtre des Funambules. With delicate charm and pathos, he captured the essence of the ... Read more
charade
charade , verbal, written, or acted representation of a word, its syllables, or a number of words. The object is to guess the idea being conveyed. Winthrop M. Praed wrote many of the well-known charades, and a good description of the acted charade is found in Thackeray's Vanity Fair. In the Unit... Read more
dumb show
dumb show a theatrical pantomime included as part of a drama, especially in Elizabethan works, from the middle of the 16th cent. well into the 17th cent. Whether presented as a spectacle, with music, or as a masque with the players as allegorical characters, the dumb show appeared as prologue, betw... Read more
Joseph Grimaldi
Joseph Grimaldi , 1779-1837, English pantomime actor and clown. He made his debut at the age of three in Robinson Crusoe at Sadler's Wells, London. For many years he performed there and at Drury Lane. By the time he played the clown in his production of Mother Goose at Covent Garden in 1806, he ... Read more
harlequin
harlequin character (associated with Columbine) in It. comedy and Eng. pantomime (clothed in variegated costume, whence the application of the word to animals with variegated coat, plumage, etc.). XVI. — F. †harlequin (mod. arlequin, after It. arlecchino), later var. of Herlequin leade... Read more
Pierrot
Pierrot [Fr.,=little Peter], character in French pantomime. A buffoon, he wore a loose white tunic with big buttons, balloon sleeves, and white pantaloons. His face was painted white. A creation of Giuseppe Giaratone or Geratoni (fl. 1639-97), Pierrot was introduced to early 19th-century France by ... Read more
John Rich
John Rich 1692-1761, English actor-manager. Rich introduced pantomime to England, himself playing (1717-60) the role of Harlequin in annual performances. His successful production of John Gay's Beggar's Opera (1728) enabled him to build Covent Garden Theatre, which he opened in 1732. ... Read more
Marius Petipa
Marius Petipa , 1822-1910, French dancer and choreographer, b. Marseilles. Petipa rose to prominence at the Imperial Theatre in St. Petersburg. He was the principal creator of the modern classical ballet. Bringing French and Italian traditions to Russia, he gave increasing importance to pure dance o... Read more
music hall
music hall In England, the Licensing Act of 1737 confined the production of legitimate plays to the two royal theaters—Drury Lane and Covent Garden; the demands for entertainment of the rising lower and middle classes were answered by song, dance, and acrobatics, and later by pantomime and co... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "pantomime"

pantomime
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition pantomime or mime [Gr.,=all in mimic], silent...been observed in many other cultures. Pantomime was popular in ancient Rome, where it...action. The traditional characters of pantomime take their origin in the Italian commedia...
Pantomime
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Pantomime, word which has drastically changed...as to the art of the Roman player of pantomime led to its adoption as the description...the adoption of the term ‘pantomime’ for this offshoot of the...
Leno, Dan
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...stars of the English music-hall and pantomime . Born in London of itinerant entertainers...later a Mohawk Minstrel and a player in pantomime. Working mainly in the north of England...every night. He first appeared in pantomime in 1886, as Jack's mother in Jack...
Humpty Dumpty
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre Humpty Dumpty (1868), a musical pantomime. [Olympic Theatre, 483 perf.] The...end, they are transformed, in classic pantomime fashion, into Clown, Columbine, Pantaloon...L. Fox's career and of traditional pantomime in America. Its authorship was by various...
ballet
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...Also popular in London at this time was pantomime, often performed between the acts of...John Weaver claimed credit for the first pantomime with The Tavern Bilkers : probably the...expressive dancing, together with the English pantomime and the acting style of David Garrick...
Marcel Marceau
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the world's greatest practitioner of pantomime. He revived this ancient form of acting...discipline of silence." The art of pantomime did not attract many students, and even...birthday in "Bip and the Street Girl." Pantomime did not attract large audiences at first...
Transformation Scene
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Transformation Scene, important element in the English pantomime . An instantaneous change of part of a scene, such as a shop...reveal new ones behind. For the swift changes needed for the pantomime a more spectacular method, made possible by the flies found...
Traps
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...raised to stage level from below. They are now used mainly in pantomime , but were formerly essential for the acrobatic trickwork...projects an actor on stage at great speed, and is used in pantomime for the arrival of the Demon King. Almost in the centre of...
Rich, John
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...actor in dumb-show and, developing the ideas of Weaver, he popularized pantomime in England, playing Harlequin himself under the name of Lun. He produced a pantomime annually from 1717 to 1760, his own masterpiece in acting being ‘...
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...also part-author of several entertainments and wrote the pantomime Robinson Crusoe for Drury Lane in 1781 as an after-piece...exploited to the full the popular taste for spectacle and pantomime, helped by the scenic artist Philip de Loutherbourg , and...

Dictionary entries related to "pantomime"

pantomime
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable pantomime a theatrical entertainment, mainly for...produced around Christmas. Modern British pantomime developed from the harlequinade and the...animal played by actors in comic costume. Pantomime is recorded from the late 16th century...
Harlequin
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Harlequin a mute character in traditional pantomime, typically masked and dressed in a diamond-patterned costume...identified with Woden. harlequinade the section of a traditional pantomime in which Harlequin played a leading role. It originated...
Aladdin
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...and marries the Sultan's daughter. The story first became a pantomime in England in 1788; in 1861 H. J. Byron's dramatization established what are now some of the main pantomime features. Aladdin's mother was named Widow Twankay (see...
Fêtes galantes
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...poems by Verlaine. The first version, comp. 1882, comprised Pantomime , En sourdine , Mandoline , Clair de Lune , and Fantoches...Roland-Manuel 1923, No.3 orch. Beydts 1929. Mandoline and Pantomime were issued separately.
widow
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...J. Byron's dramatization of the story of Aladdin as a pantomime. She was so named in reference to a kind of green tea which...Widow Twankey is now one of the stock characters for this pantomime. widow's cruse an apparently small supply that proves inexhaustible...
Laurel, Stan, and Oliver Hardy
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...divorced 1946); 6) Ida Kitaeva Raphael, 1946. Career: 1906—stage debut in Glasgow; joined Levy and Cardwell Pantomime Company as stage manager, then as actor and featured comedian; 1910—joined the Fred Karno Company, worked as...
Price, Vincent
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...contract with Universal-International, then contract with RKO, 1951; 1950–52—panelist on TV program Pantomime Quiz ; 1953—in stage production of Richard III, and later in Billy Budd, 1955, and Ardele, 1975; Art Consultant...
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...boy was a prodigy of astonishing talent, writing piano and chamber pieces while still a child and enjoying success with his pantomime-ballet Der Schneemann at the age of 11. A year later his piano trio received performances by top musicians, as did all...
Tragedy and Comedy
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...ceased to be performed by actors and, at most, been presented only by public recitations. The term tragedy was also used for pantomime productions, tragoediae saltatae, and also for citharoediae, in which a tragic protagonist sang and accompanied himself...
Dance
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...American. Incorporating this distinctly American style was the first "ballet" style dance. Using techniques similar to pantomime, this ballet was presented in 1735 by Henry Holt, a British dancing instructor who had opened a dancing school in 1734 in...

Thesaurus entries related to "pantomime"

mime
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus mime • noun  a mime of someone fencing synonyms : pantomime, charade, dumb show. • verb  she mimed picking up a phone synonyms : act out, pantomime, gesture, simulate, represent.
performance
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...capacity, power, potential.   5. informal he made a great performance of telling her about it synonyms : fuss, production, palaver, scene, business, pantomime; informal song and dance, big deal, to-do, hoo-ha.
comedy
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...synonyms : light entertainment, humorous play, farce, musical comedy, situation comedy, comedy of errors, burlesque, pantomime, slapstick, satire, vaudeville, comic opera; inf. sitcom.   2. the comedy of the situation synonyms : humor...
rigmarole
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...rigmarole of dressing up synonyms : fuss, bother, trouble, palaver, ado, pother, song and dance, performance, to-do, pantomime, hassle, folderol.   2. that rigmarole about the house being haunted synonyms : tale, saga, yarn, shaggy...
charade
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus charade • noun  our entire relationship is a charade synonyms : farce, pantomime, travesty, mockery, parody, pretense, act, masquerade.
travesty
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...misrepresentation of, poor imitation of, poor substitute for, mockery of, parody of, caricature of; farce of, charade of, pantomime of, sham of, spoof of; informal apology for, (poor) excuse for. See note at caricature.
fuss
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...about nothing; bother, fluster, flurry, bustle; informal hoo-ha, to-do, ballyhoo, song and dance, performance, pantomime.   2. they settled in with very little fuss synonyms : bother, trouble, inconvenience, effort, exertion, labor...

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News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 3/24/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...There was a time when going to see a pantomime performance in Jamaica was a social occasion...stage productions. In a year when the pantomime celebrates its 60th anniversary in Jamaica...second coming of sorts for the local pantomime. But "Bugsie"'s writer, Barbara...
Raucous, vulgar and electric. (pantomime in Great Britain)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 12/24/1994; 700+ words ; ...cricket or the finer points of class, pantomime is a perennial feature of Christmas in...tales in the traditional manner. The pantomime canon embraces such children's classics...male comedian in drag playing the famous pantomime dame, whose costumes grow more outrageous...
Oh yes it is an art form! ; BARBICAN ++ Pantomime is just vulgar and superficial - isn't it? We l, only if you think comedia dell'arte and Renaissance traditions are a little low rent, says an aghast Michael Coveney
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/21/2006; ; 700+ words ; In the current pantomime at the Barbican in London, Mark Raven...movies. As grown-ups, we revisit the pantomime with our children, or even without...childhood impressions? And why is pantomime such a peculiar, and peculiarly British...
Group Therapy Using Pantomime Play
Magazine article from: Alcoholism; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...psychotherapeutic method of treatment by means of pantomime according to the method introduced by Horetzky. We applied pantomime to various psychiatric patients and...Alcoholism 2006; 42: 79-84) Key words: Pantomime; Group therapy; Addiction INTRODUCTION...
British pantomime coming to the Met in December.
Newspaper article from: Dominion Post (Morgantown, WV); 9/28/2006; 700+ words ; ...faces and haunted look. The British pantomime coming to Morgantown's Metropolitan...the Morgantown Panto Club, said this pantomime has much more in common with other popular...and "Benny Hill." "When people hear pantomime they immediately think of whitefaced...
Harlequin Britain: Pantomime and Entertainment, 1690-1760.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Theatre Notebook; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; Harlequin Britain: Pantomime and Entertainment, 1690-1760 John...in 1972 ('The Infancy of English Pantomime: 1716-1725', Educational Theatre...the theatrics and performances of pantomime as it mutated in the first 70 years...
DP Arts: Pantomime is just old hat ... Oh no,it isn't!; Philip Key gives his view of this year's productions.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 12/26/2003; 700+ words ; ...Key IT WAS the Victorians who gave us pantomime as we know it today. Until the 1880s...the Music Hall stage thrown into the pantomime melting pot. By the 20thCentury that...pantomimes would often run until Easter. The pantomime is still changing as anyone visiting...
Managing the pantomime: productions at the Theatre Royal Nottingham in the 1860s.
Magazine article from: Theatre Notebook; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...successful speculation is confined to pantomime, burlesque, and kindred pieces...that for most provincial theatres, 'pantomime ... is the sheet-anchor of the drama...Knowles's acknowledgement that the pantomime was financially crucial to the provincial...
ANY QUESTIONS: Pantomime is a real man's dame.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 2/3/2000; ; 700+ words ; WHY are pantomime dames always played by men? PANTOMIME is derived from the Greek word pantomimus meaning "imitator...women was also started by the Romans, and the role of a pantomime dame played by a man, usually comically, stretches back...
Taylor's British Pantomime Performance takes a peek behind the curtain to find out what panto is really all about.
M2 Presswire; 12/11/2007; 624 words ; ...2007-Intellect: Taylor's British Pantomime Performance takes a peek behind the curtain...COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11122007 The pantomime season is now in full swing! A heady...repartee. However, there is more to pantomime than initially meets the eye... Millie...