* July 1 – The comic ballet La fille mal gardée choreographed by Jean Dauberval is first presented under the title Le ballet de la paille at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, in Bordeaux, France.

In the first two decades of the century, two rival London theatres, Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane presented productions that began seriously with classical stories with elements of opera and ballet, and ended with a comic " night scene ".

Nic Briand's influences tend to be " heavier " such as the Wu Tang Clan, comic books and Jimi Hendrix, whereas Susien Chong's are " softer " elements such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, ballet and Roberta Flack.

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It took the form of musical theatre parody in which a well-known opera, play or ballet was adapted into a broad comic play, usually a musical play, often risqué in style, mocking the theatrical and musical conventions and styles of the original work, and quoting or pastiching text or music from the original work.

Classical mythology has provided subject matter for all forms of visual, musical, and literary art in the West, including poetry, drama, painting, sculpture, opera, and ballet, as well as forms of popular culture such as Hollywood movies, television series, comic books, and video games.

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Coppélia is a comic ballet originally choreographed by Arthur Saint-Léon to the music of Léo Delibes, with libretto by Charles Nuitter.

It became even more widely known after its inclusion in the 1940 Disney animated film Fantasia where it is depicted as a comic ballet featuring anthropomorphized ostriches, hippos, elephants, and alligators.

* Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse, comic ballet ( 1743 )

" Among Taneyev's unpublished works are reportedly various parodies, including " Quartets of Government Officials ", " humorous choruses, comic fugues and variations, toy symphonies, a mock ballet for Tchaikovsky's birthday with an absurd scenario and music which is an ingenious contrapuntal pot-pourri of themes from Tchaikovsky's works ...."

The portrayal of women by male dancers was very common in Renaissance court ballet and has continued into more modern times, although primarily restricted to comic or malevolent female characters.

After a few years of working in this more simplistic style, during which time he wrote the comic opera Dolorès, ou Le miracle de la femme laide ( 1942 ) and the ballet Guignol et Pandore ( 1943 ), he arrived at a compromise between this and his earlier more experimental work.

Pineapple Poll is a Gilbert and Sullivan-inspired comic ballet, created by choreographer John Cranko with arranger Sir Charles Mackerras.

Following the expiration of the copyright on Arthur Sullivan's music in 1950, John Cranko choreographed the comic ballet Pineapple Poll, in collaboration with Charles Mackerras, for a British Festival.

Comic ballet is a subcategory of narrative ballet, and denotes a dramatic work of a light or comic nature.

La fille mal gardée ( English: The Wayward Daughter, literal translation: The Badly Guarded Girl and also known as The Girl Who Needed Watching ) is a comic ballet presented in two acts, inspired by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin's 1789 painting, La réprimande / Une jeune fille querellée par sa mère.

* Cinderella ( Ashton ) ( 1948 ), a comic ballet by Frederick Ashton, using Prokofiev's music

In operas, even comic operas with dialogue like The Magic Flute, the principal singers leave the dancing to the ballet troupe.

Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars and wrote, " The movie isn't as funny or entertaining as Evil Dead II, however, maybe because the comic approach seems recycled ".

* It has four lines of irregular length and metre ( for comic effect )

Doom has appeared in several forms in addition to games, including a comic book, four novels by Dafydd Ab Hugh and Brad Linaweaver ( loosely based on events and locations in the games ), a board game and even a live-action film starring Karl Urban and The Rock released in 2005.

Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata ( The Marriage of Figaro, or The Day of Madness ), K. 492, is an opera buffa ( comic opera ) composed in 1786 in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with a libretto in Italian by Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro ( 1784 ).

Using money from a tax refund together with a loan from Eastman's uncle, the young artists self-published a single-issue comic intended to parody four of the most popular comics of the early 1980s: Marvel Comics ' Daredevil and New Mutants, Dave Sim's Cerebus, and Frank Miller's Ronin.

With Rossini a standard distribution of four characters is reached: a prima donna soubrette ( soprano or mezzo ); a light, amorous tenor ; a basso cantante or baritone capable of lyrical, mostly ironical expression ; and a basso buffo whose vocal skills, largely confined to clear articulation and the ability to ‘ patter ’, must also extend to the baritone for the purposes of comic duets.

The inspiration for the comic strip came from Dennis Ketcham, the real life son of Hank Ketcham, who was only four years old when he refused to take a nap and somehow messed up his whole room.

The Swamp Thing has appeared in four comic book series to date, plus several specials, and has crossed over into other DC titles.

During the ten years that followed his creator's retirement the character made infrequent appearances, appearing only in four comic book stories.

There have been four adaptations of the book: a serialisation in the Daily Express newspaper, a subsequent daily comic strip by Henry Gammidge and John McLusky in the same paper, the 1963 film version, and a 2012 BBC radio adaptation of the same name, produced by Jarvis & Ayres and starring Toby Stephens.

It was followed by a " daily comic panel " in newspapers, four more books, a game, and a calendar.

In 1991 Thrasher left the University of Alberta and worked for Northwestern Utilities in Edmonton ; during the four months he worked with the company, he did not produce any Space Moose comics, and the school newspaper replaced Space Moose's slot with Colby Christ, a comic about Colby Cosh, a friend of Thrasher.

The first four of these were among the large cast of La vie est un roman ( Life Is a Bed of Roses ) ( 1983 ), a comic fantasy about utopian dreams in which three stories, from different eras and told in different styles, are interwoven within a shared setting.

Besides four issues of the comic book Last Kiss, the panels have also become a regular feature of Comics Buyer's Guide, and recently expanded into being featured on t-shirts, greeting cards, etc.

* Mutant X ( TV series ), a television show produced by Marvel Studios that ran from 2001 – 2004 about four superpowered mutants, but unrelated to the Marvel comic series Mutant X

Gorillaz is a virtual band composed of four animated band members created in 1998 by Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, co-creator of the comic book Tank Girl.

The first Dynamite issue was published with four different color covers and eight special cover variants: These included Retailer Incentive versions, regional comic shop limited print run specials, and even two variants that offered limited run, hand-drawn, signed, and numbered original cover sketches, one in pencil, the other in ink.

Perry was good friends with fellow comic actor Will Rogers, and they appeared in four films together, David Harum ( 1934 ), Judge Priest ( 1934 ), Steamboat ' Round the Bend ( 1935 ), and The County Chairman ( 1935 ).

** Gang of Four, four heroes of comic Oriental Heroes

Papp went on to produce four more of Hwang's plays, including the Pulitzer Prize-nominated drama The Dance and the Railroad, which tells the story of a former Chinese opera star working as a coolie laborer in the nineteenth century, and Family Devotions, a darkly comic take on the effects of Western religion on a Chinese family.

* Fantagraphics Books has published four volumes of a series collecting Kelly's Our Gang comic book stories ( 1943 – 45 ) with cover art by Bone creator Jeff Smith and introductions by Leonard Maltin and Kelly chronicler Steve Thompson.

* A four color or superheroic campaign is similar in flavor to comic books.

Based on Carl Barks ' Uncle Scrooge comic book series, it premiered on September 18, 1987 and ended on November 28, 1990 with a total of four seasons and 101 episodes in 100 shows.

" Roger Ebert gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote, " Caddyshack feels more like a movie that was written rather loosely, so that when shooting began there was freedom-too much freedom-for it to wander off in all directions in search of comic inspiration ".