 At the Gaiety, Lutz compiled the scores, and later often composed original music, for a series of popular pasticcio entertainments, opera-bouffes and burlesques, including "The Bohemian G-yurl and the Unapproachable Pole" (1877); "Robbing Roy" (1879 by F. C. Burnand); a version of "The Forty Thieves" (1880, libretto by Robert Reece; Lutz had conducted an 1878 version of the same story); "All in the Downs; or, Black-Eyed Susan" (1881); "Aladdin" (1881); "Oh!Those Girls" (1882); "Blue Beard" (1882); "Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed" (1883, with a libretto by Henry Pottinger Stephens); "Ariel" (1883, libretto by Burnand); and "Mazeppa" (1884).George Edwardes took over management of the Gaiety in 1885 and expanded the format of the burlesques, commissioning Lutz to write original scores for the "new burlesques" at the theatre