 Edwardes expanded the burlesque format from one act to full-length pieces with original music by Lutz, instead of scores compiled from popular tunes, as was the usual course before that.The theatre's choreographer and dance-master, under both Hollingshead and Edwardes, was John D'Auban.Nellie Farren, as the theatre's "principal boy", starred at the Gaiety for over 20 years, from 1868.