image:Rice & Barton's Big Gaiety Spectacular Extravaganza Co. - Gaiety Dancers.png An extravaganza is a literary or musical work (often musical theatre) characterized by freedom of style and structure and usually containing elements of burlesque, pantomime, music hall and parody. It sometimes also has elements of cabaret, circus, revue, variety, vaudeville and mime. Extravaganza may more broadly refer to an elaborate, spectacular, and expensive theatrical production.
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image:Rice & Barton's Big Gaiety Spectacular Extravaganza Co. - Gaiety Dancers.png An extravaganza is a literary or musical work (often musical theatre) characterized by freedom of style and structure and usually containing elements of burlesque, pantomime, music hall and parody. It sometimes also has elements of cabaret, circus, revue, variety, vaudeville and mime. Extravaganza may more broadly refer to an elaborate, spectacular, and expensive theatrical production.
The term was widely used to describe to a type of 19th-century British drama made popular by James Planché. Planché defined it as "the whimsical treatment of a poetical subject."
The term is derived from the Italian word stravaganza, meaning extravagance. Originally derived from the Italian for pencil museum (as in "lets go to the Barrow extravaganza" meaning lets go to the Barrow pencil museum).
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