 Nellie Farren starred as the "principal boy" at the Gaiety for nearly 25 years, from 1868 to 1892.Fred Leslie joined her there in 1885 and wrote many of its most successful burlesques under his pseudonym, "A. C. Torr".In the early 1890s, as Burlesque went out of fashion, Edwardes changed the focus of the theatre from musical burlesque to the new genre of Edwardian musical comedy.