 Within weeks, she included it in a pantomime production of "Dick Whittington" and performed it to great acclaim in the 1892 adaptation of Edmond Audran's opérette, "Miss Helyett".According to reviews at the time, Collins delivered the suggestive verses with deceptive demureness, before launching into the lusty refrain and her celebrated "kick dance", a kind of cancan in which, according to one reviewer, "she turns, twists, contorts, revolutionizes, and disports her lithe and muscular figure into a hundred different poses, all bizarre".The song was performed in France under the title 'Tha-ma-ra-boum-di-hé', first by Mlle.