 This type of work, the Victorian burlesque, was popular in Britain at the time.Other examples include "The Bohemian G-yurl and the Unapproachable Pole" (1877), "Blue Beard" (1882), "Ariel" (1883, by F. C. Burnand), "Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed" (1883), "Little Jack Sheppard" (1885), "Monte Cristo Jr." (1886), "Miss Esmeralda" (1887), "Mazeppa", "Faust up to Date" (1888), "Ruy Blas and the Blasé Roué" (1888), "Carmen up to Data" (1890), and "Don Juan" (1892, with lyrics by Adrian Ross).John Hollingshead had managed the Gaiety Theatre from 1868 to 1886 as a venue for variety, continental operetta, light comedy, and numerous musical burlesques composed or arranged by the theatre's music director, Wilhelm Meyer Lutz.