Harlequinade is a British comic theatrical genre, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "that part of a pantomime in which the harlequin and clown play the principal parts". It developed in England between the 17th and mid-19th centuries. It was originally a slapstick adaptation or variant of the Commedia dell'arte, which originated in Italy and reached its apogee there in the 16th and 17th centuries. The story of the Harlequinade revolves around a comic incident in the lives of its five main characters: Harlequin, who loves Columbine; Columbine's greedy father Pantaloon, who tries to separate the lovers in league with the mischievous Clown; and the servant, Pierrot, usually involving chaotic chase scenes with a policeman.
Originally a mime (silent) act with music and stylised dance, the harlequinade later employed some dialogue, but it remained primarily a visual spectacle. Early in its development, it achieved great popularity as the comic closing part of a longer evening of entertainment, following a more serious presentation with operatic and balletic elements. An often elaborate magical transformation scene, presided over by a fairy, connected the unrelated stories, changing the first part of the pantomime, and its characters, into the harlequinade. In the late 18th and 19th centuries, the harlequinade became the larger part of the entertainment, and the transformation scene was presented with increasingly spectacular stage effects. The harlequinade lost popularity towards the end of the 19th century and disappeared altogether in the 1930s, although Christmas pantomimes continue to be presented in Britain without the harlequinade.
Les Millions d'Arléquin (en. Harlequin's Millions) (ru. «Миллионы Арлекина», Milliony Arlekina) also known under the title Harlequinade (ru. «Арлекинада», Arlekinada) is a Ballet comique in two acts with libretto and choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Riccardo Drigo. First presented at the Hermitage by the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia on 23 February [O.S. 10 February] 1900. The ballet was given a second premiere with the same cast at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre on 26 February [O.S. 13 February] 1900.
Drigo's score was famous in its own right, spawning the famous repertory piece known as the Sérénade that has been adapted for various instruments. In 1922 the lyricist S. Focacci adapted the Sérénade into the song Notturno d'amour that went on to be recorded by many notable singers including the famous Italian tenor Beniamino Gigli, whose 1926 recording of the song became a world-wide hit.
Petipa's original two-act version of the ballet has not been performed since 1927. The Ballet Master Fyodor Lopukhov staged a one-act redaction of the ballet as Arlekinada in 1933 for the Maly Theatre Ballet, being the company's first production after its formation. This version has survived to the present day and is still occasionally given by various companies and schools in Russia and throughout the world.
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Cheshire grinning villain of my pantomine
Swagger out your vortex just in time
To catch harlequin and columbine out of costume
Come cobra charmer and crash my gate
Trick or treater swindle me some mdma
And let the slapstick clown swap lipstick with
pantaloon
Again and again
And we're going for the jugular
And we're going down town
Hopscotch through my playground
Do-do-do Do-do-do Do-do-do
Do-do-do Do-do-do Do-do-do
Hey de-de bop
Hey de-de bop bop
Hey de-de bop
Hey de-de bop bop
Goddess in an infinity cove
Cuts the caper in a leotard of gold
Does the way she cavort not distort your political
view?
Let's masquerade on the promenade
Let's foxtrot across your map
It's a hoedown a showdown a shindig and a knees-up too
It's whatever that you want it to be
And we're going for the jugular
And we're going down town
Hopscotch through my playground
Do-do-do Do-do-do Do-do-do
Do-do-do Do-do-do Do-do-do
No flame burns brighter than yours
No flame burns brighter than yours
Indeed many try
Tie the knot into your tie
Zip your zip and flick your zippo light
We have the target in our sight
And we're going for the jugular
And we're going down town
Hopscotch through my playground
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