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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 ...phrase ‘a proper pantomime’ was used outside...confusion’. The word pantomime was also used in France for...Pierrot. Fox also staged pantomimes in the USA, while another...art from the popular idea of pantomime, describe it as mime .
Leno, Dan
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...night. He first appeared in pantomime in 1886, as Jack's mother...then seen in every Drury Lane pantomime up to 1903, when he made...diminutive quicksilver figure. The pantomimes usually ran until the spring...Leno, in common with other pantomime stars, returned to the...
Fox, G. L.
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...he staged a long series of successful pantomimes . He then moved to the Olympic, giving...Dream , and a year later producing his pantomime Humpty-Dumpty and a travesty of Hamlet...played Pantaloon in his brother's pantomimes.
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...
Fox, G(eorge Washington) L(afayette)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...greatest American exponent of classical pantomime and often called the first “...where as manager he regularly inserted pantomimes into the bill. His greatest success...the day. This was followed by other pantomimes and burlesques: Hiccory Diccory Dock...
Copyrights
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Business and Finance, 2nd ed. ...including any accompanying music; (4) pantomimes and choreographic materials; (5...dramatic, and choreographic materials, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual...dramatic, and choreographic materials, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural...
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...
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...
Harlequinade
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...Harlequinade, important element in the development of the English pantomime . It resulted from the fusion of the dumbshow of the actors...and the harlequinade, placed after the Grande Finale of the pantomime, lost all meaning. It finally disappeared altogether during...

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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...
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...
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...
Dance
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...first "ballet" style dance. Using techniques similar to pantomime, this ballet was presented in 1735 by Henry Holt, a British...touring companies, which presented operas, operettas, and pantomimes. Dancing also made its way into circuses and variety shows...
Bartók, Béla
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...1-act ballet (1914–17); The Miraculous Mandarin ( A csodálatos mandarin ), Op.19, 1-act pantomime (1918–19, orch. 1923, rev. 1924, 1926–31).ORCH.: Kossuth , sym.-poem (1903); Rhapsody...
Festin de l'araignée, Le
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Festin de l'araignée, Le ( The Spider's Banquet ). Ballet-pantomime with mus. by Roussel to scenario by G. de Voisins and choreog. by Staats. Prod. Paris 1913. Orch. suite (1912).
Schreker, Franz
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...Christophorus (1925–9), and Der Schmied von Gent (1929–32). In 1908 he composed a ballet-pantomime based on Wilde, Der Geburtstag der Infantin , for str. orch., producing a Suite from it scored for full orch. in 1923...
Martha
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...oder Der Markt von Richmond ). 4-act opera by Flotow to lib. by W. Friedrich after V. de Saint-Georges's ballet-pantomime Lady Henriette for which Flotow had comp. some mus. Makes use of ‘The Last Rose of Summer’, as...

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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
comedy
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...noun   1. he excels in comedy synonyms : light entertainment, comic theater, farce, situation comedy, satire, pantomime, comic opera; burlesque, slapstick; informal sitcom. antonyms: tragedy, drama.   2. the comedy in their work...
charade
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English charade • noun   synonyms : pretense, travesty, fake, farce, parody, pantomime.

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Raucous, vulgar and electric. (pantomime in Great Britain)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 12/24/1994; 700+ words ; ...What seems to make pantomime effective is its subtle...done (and the best pantomimes are impeccably professional...For the glory of pantomime is the involvement...not strictly speaking pantomimes--like "Peter Pan...Theatre--incorporate pantomime elements to foster...
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News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 3/24/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...who has himself written a pantomime, believes that the medium...productions. "People are enjoying pantomime less because they have been...the fact that of the last 16 pantomimes, Gloudon has written more...certain sameness about the pantomime." Yet despite a drop in...
Harlequin Britain: Pantomime and Entertainment, 1690-1760.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Theatre Notebook; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...theatrical elements of pantomime. He narrates and...and Faustian pantomimes with some clarity...the Drury Lane pantomimes of David Garrick...eighteenth-century pantomime, and, equally...takes analysis into pantomimes featuring sorcery...eighteenth century. Pantomime, O'Brien ...
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 ; ...because "anything goes". Pantomime has evolved sideways, messily...Roman theatre (the term "pantomime" from the Greek means "we...London led to the flowering of pantomimes, many based on the Harlequin...drama) that the modern pantomime took wing. The path had been...
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...
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 ; ...the Victorians who gave us pantomime as we know it today. Until...Hall stage thrown into the pantomime melting pot. By the 20thCentury...popular did they become that pantomimes would often run until Easter. The pantomime is still changing as anyone...
Pantomime: oh, so British - and, oh, so funny.(THE HOME FORUM)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 12/27/2005; 700+ words ; ...recent research into the pantomime phenomenon revealed...in the early days of pantomime (in the 18th century...out that in Britain pantomimes are frequently the...So the quality of pantomimes is significant for...longstanding ingredient of pantomime, and I suspect it...
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...Python and Benny Hill. When people hear pantomime they immediately think of whitefaced...
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...imitator of all". Although pantomimes originated in Greece they came...the Romans, and the role of a pantomime dame played by a man, usually...
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 ; ...story-telling. British Pantomime Performancedigs beneath the jokes to force a reevaluation of pantomime's importance as a dramatic...director of British professional pantomimes, and there has never been...Information Full Title: British Pantomime Performance Author: Millie...