Sentence examples for a burlesque character from inspiring English sources

On the modern stage, The Relapse has been established as one of the most popular Restoration comedies, valued for Vanbrugh's light, throwaway wit and the consummate acting part of Lord Foppington, a burlesque character with a dark side.

Kelly Savage's synthesizer produced a credible digital harpsichord sound; a vibraphone-marimba patch Ms. Savage adopted for Ms. Palmer's arias heightened their burlesque character.

Some light relief came in the form of I Fagiolini's L'Amfiparnaso, a burlesque based on the characters of the commedia dell'arte by Orazio Vecchi (1550-1605).

His interest in the scene was fuelled by the contrast between an artist's public and private persona: "A burlesque performer takes a piece of themselves and builds a character in their fantasy world," he writes.

Little Tich left for America in the early months of 1887 and assumed his first role for Pastor in a burlesque version of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, playing the lead character for a fee of £10 a week.

The main shaman character, however, named the White Old Man, was a burlesque, a doddering, bearded buffoon.

In the movie, Penelope invents escapist characters ranging from a Darth Vader dominatrix who performs a burlesque strip tease to a swaggering man who authoritatively misdirects a parallel parker.

In his initial choreographic effort, The Tavern Bilkers (1702), a burlesque and the first English pantomime ballet, he used Italian commedia dell'arte characters such as Harlequin and Scaramouche.

A year later he wrote his first play, a burlesque.

Mr. Lane, our greatest comic stage star, provides a counterpoint in "The Nance," a play about a burlesque star from the 1930s whose dreary personal life is juxtaposed with his energetic, comic turn as a stock character rooted in gay stereotypes.

His Marilyn isn't a burlesque Sphinx.