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href="/wiki/File:John-Dauban-savoyard-march81.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/John-Dauban-savoyard-march81.jpg/220px-John-Dauban-savoyard-march81.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="295" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/John-Dauban-savoyard-march81.jpg/330px-John-Dauban-savoyard-march81.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/John-Dauban-savoyard-march81.jpg/440px-John-Dauban-savoyard-march81.jpg 2x" data-file-width="773" data-file-height="1035" /></a><figcaption>Contemporary press caricature of D'Auban</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Frederick John D'Auban</b> (1842 – 15 April 1922) was an English dancer, choreographer and actor of the <a href="/wiki/Victorian_era" title="Victorian era">Victorian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Edwardian_era" title="Edwardian era">Edwardian eras</a>. Famous during his lifetime as the ballet-master at the <a href="/wiki/Theatre_Royal,_Drury_Lane" title="Theatre Royal, Drury Lane">Theatre Royal, Drury Lane</a>, he is best remembered as the choreographer of many of the <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan" title="Gilbert and Sullivan">Gilbert and Sullivan</a> operas. </p><p>After performing as a child with his family, D'Auban continued a career as a comic dancer in <a href="/wiki/Music_hall" title="Music hall">music hall</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pantomime" title="Pantomime">pantomime</a>. He also served as dance master for the <a href="/wiki/Alhambra_Theatre" title="Alhambra Theatre">Alhambra Theatre</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Gaiety_Theatre,_London" title="Gaiety Theatre, London">Gaiety Theatre, London</a>, and, for decades, Drury Lane. In 1868, he began a long association with <a href="/wiki/W._S._Gilbert" title="W. S. Gilbert">W. S. Gilbert</a>, staging the dances for most of the original productions of the <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan" title="Gilbert and Sullivan">Gilbert and Sullivan</a> operas, including <i><a href="/wiki/H.M.S._Pinafore" title="H.M.S. Pinafore">H.M.S. Pinafore</a></i> (1878) and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mikado" title="The Mikado">The Mikado</a></i> (1885), as well as many other <a href="/wiki/Savoy_opera" title="Savoy opera">Savoy operas</a>. Between the 1860s and 1909, D'Auban choreographed more than 150 productions, including pantomimes, <a href="/wiki/Victorian_burlesque" title="Victorian burlesque">burlesques</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edwardian_musical_comedies" class="mw-redirect" title="Edwardian musical comedies">musical comedies</a> and <a href="/wiki/Comic_opera" title="Comic opera">comic operas</a>. He also taught dance to many who became famous performers. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_D%27Auban&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_years">Early years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_D%27Auban&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As a child, D'Auban appeared with his sister, Marie, as Madame D'Auban's "celebrated infant dancers", from 1850 onwards,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and continued to appear as part of the D'Auban family song and dance act throughout his childhood.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As adults, he and his sister appeared together in a comic dance double act at the <a href="/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace" title="The Crystal Palace">Crystal Palace</a> in 1863.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They appeared together in a <a href="/wiki/Harlequinade" title="Harlequinade">Harlequinade</a> at the opening of the <a href="/wiki/Surrey_Theatre" title="Surrey Theatre">Surrey Theatre</a>, as Harlequin and Columbine, which ran during the Christmas season that year.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They repeated their Harlequinade with variations during the Christmas seasons of 1868,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1869<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and 1871.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Burlesque,_pantomime_and_other_early_work"><span id="Burlesque.2C_pantomime_and_other_early_work"></span>Burlesque, pantomime and other early work</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_D%27Auban&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Burlesque, pantomime and other early work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Faustupto.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/71/Faustupto.jpg/250px-Faustupto.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="338" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/71/Faustupto.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="406" /></a><figcaption>The "Pas de Quatre" from <i><a href="/wiki/Faust_up_to_date" class="mw-redirect" title="Faust up to date">Faust up to date</a></i> (1888), one of many Gaiety <a href="/wiki/Victorian_burlesque" title="Victorian burlesque">burlesques</a> choreographed by D'Auban</figcaption></figure> <p>D'Auban quickly became popular as a <a href="/wiki/Grotesque_dance" title="Grotesque dance">grotesque dancer</a> and "<a href="/wiki/Trapdoor#Star_traps_in_theatre" title="Trapdoor">star trap</a>" performer in London <a href="/wiki/Music_halls" class="mw-redirect" title="Music halls">music halls</a> early in his career. From 1865 to 1868, he danced in many of the <a href="/wiki/Alhambra_Theatre" title="Alhambra Theatre">Alhambra Theatre</a> <a href="/wiki/Victorian_burlesque" title="Victorian burlesque">burlesques</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pantomime" title="Pantomime">pantomimes</a> under director <a href="/wiki/John_Hollingshead" title="John Hollingshead">John Hollingshead</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He made a sensation in Paris in 1866, introducing that city to the star-trap. According to Hollingshead, D'Auban was the champion of star-trap jumpers, able to spring through the trap, from below the stage, high up in the air in sight of the audience.<sup id="cite_ref-Timesobit_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Timesobit-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>D'Auban began his forty-year association with <a href="/wiki/W._S._Gilbert" title="W. S. Gilbert">W. S. Gilbert</a> in 1868 by appearing in the bill at the opening of Hollingshead's <a href="/wiki/Gaiety_Theatre,_London" title="Gaiety Theatre, London">Gaiety Theatre, London</a>, including as one of two mysterious fiddlers in Gilbert's burlesque <i><a href="/wiki/Robert_the_Devil_(Gilbert)" title="Robert the Devil (Gilbert)">Robert the Devil</a></i>. The other was John Warde, elder brother of <a href="/wiki/Willie_Warde" title="Willie Warde">Willie Warde</a>. D'Auban and John Warde were billed as the theatre's "principal grotesque dancers and pantomimists".<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> D'Auban then acted as ballet-master at the Gaiety, choreographing its famous burlesques, until 1891.<sup id="cite_ref-Timesobit_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Timesobit-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1870 and in 1875 at the Gaiety, D'Auban choreographed <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dibdin" title="Charles Dibdin">Charles Dibdin</a>'s musical farce, <i>The Waterman</i>. From 1868 to 1909, D'Auban arranged the dances for more than 150 productions in the <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a>, at 30 different theatres.<sup id="cite_ref-tm_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tm-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>D'Auban married Warde's sister, Emma, in 1871, with whom he also performed.<sup id="cite_ref-Timesobit_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Timesobit-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1871 Christmas season, in the Harlequinade section of the pantomime <i>Nip Van Winkle</i> at the Pavilion Theatre, D'Auban played Harlequin, Emma was the "Harlequin <i>à la</i> Watteau", D'Auban's sister Marie was Columbine, and John Warde was Clown.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The next Christmas, D'Auban and Warde appeared together as the eponymous Valentine and Orson at the Elephant and Castle Theatre.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the Gaiety, D'Auban appeared in and choreographed <i>Fiz-Gig</i>, "a new pantomimic ballet" in 1874.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Comic_opera;_Drury_Lane"><span id="Comic_opera.3B_Drury_Lane"></span>Comic opera; Drury Lane</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_D%27Auban&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Comic opera; Drury Lane"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1876, D'Auban arranged the dances for the Gilbert and <a href="/wiki/Frederic_Clay" title="Frederic Clay">Frederic Clay</a> <a href="/wiki/Comic_opera" title="Comic opera">comic opera</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Princess_Toto" title="Princess Toto">Princess Toto</a></i>, starring <a href="/wiki/Kate_Santley" title="Kate Santley">Kate Santley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1877, D'Auban began working with <a href="/wiki/Richard_D%27Oyly_Carte" title="Richard D'Oyly Carte">Richard D'Oyly Carte</a>, Gilbert and <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Sullivan" title="Arthur Sullivan">Arthur Sullivan</a> by arranging the dances for their comic opera <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sorcerer" title="The Sorcerer">The Sorcerer</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1878, D'Auban trained Gilbert in his dances as <a href="/wiki/Harlequin" title="Harlequin">Harlequin</a> for the Harlequinade section of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Forty_Thieves" title="The Forty Thieves">The Forty Thieves</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> D'Auban arranged the dances for the next <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan" title="Gilbert and Sullivan">Gilbert and Sullivan</a> opera, <i><a href="/wiki/H.M.S._Pinafore" title="H.M.S. Pinafore">H.M.S. Pinafore</a></i>, which became extraordinarily successful.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For the Christmas season in 1879, he choreographed the <a href="/wiki/Extravaganza" title="Extravaganza">extravaganza</a> burlesque of <i>Gulliver's Travels</i> by <a href="/wiki/H._J._Byron" class="mw-redirect" title="H. J. Byron">H. J. Byron</a> at the Gaiety.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ruddigore_Poster.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Ruddigore_Poster.jpg/300px-Ruddigore_Poster.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Ruddigore_Poster.jpg/450px-Ruddigore_Poster.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Ruddigore_Poster.jpg/600px-Ruddigore_Poster.jpg 2x" data-file-width="650" data-file-height="492" /></a><figcaption>"In Sailing O'er Life's Ocean", a choreographed number from <i><a href="/wiki/Ruddigore" title="Ruddigore">Ruddigore</a></i>, Act I (1887)</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1880, D'Auban choreographed and appeared with his wife and sister in <a href="/wiki/E._L._Blanchard" class="mw-redirect" title="E. L. Blanchard">E. L. Blanchard</a>'s pantomime of <i>Mother Goose</i> at the <a href="/wiki/Theatre_Royal,_Drury_Lane" title="Theatre Royal, Drury Lane">Theatre Royal, Drury Lane</a>. Thereafter, until at least 1909, he was ballet-master and director at Drury Lane, especially of the pantomimes, where he also continued to perform in the Christmas pantomimes. His son, Ernest Henry D'Auban (1874–1941), became the stage manager at Drury Lane for many years. In 1881, D'Auban appeared in and arranged the dances for <i>Robinson Crusoe</i>, followed in subsequent years by such Drury Lane pantomimes as <i>Sinbad The Sailor</i>, <i>Cinderella</i> and <i>Aladdin</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1880, he choreographed <i><a href="/wiki/Billee_Taylor" title="Billee Taylor">Billee Taylor</a></i> at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Aquarium" title="Royal Aquarium">Imperial Theatre</a>, <a href="/wiki/Franz_von_Supp%C3%A9" title="Franz von Suppé">Franz von Suppé</a>'s <i>Boccaccio</i> for <a href="/wiki/H._B._Farnie" class="mw-redirect" title="H. B. Farnie">H. B. Farnie</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Vicar_of_Bray_(opera)" title="The Vicar of Bray (opera)">The Vicar of Bray</a></i> at the <a href="/wiki/Globe_Theatre_(Newcastle_Street)" title="Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street)">Globe Theatre</a>, and <i>Rip van Winkle</i> by <a href="/wiki/Henri_Meilhac" title="Henri Meilhac">Henri Meilhac</a>, Phillipe Gille and Farnie, both at the <a href="/wiki/Comedy_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Comedy Theatre">Comedy Theatre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1886, D'Auban choreographed <i>Vetah</i>, a comic opera with a libretto by Kate Santley and music by <a href="/wiki/Firmin_Bernicat" title="Firmin Bernicat">Firmin Bernicat</a> and Georges Jacobi, which toured the British provinces in 1886.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He played Demonico in <i><a href="/wiki/Frankenstein,_or_The_Vampire%27s_Victim" title="Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim">Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim</a></i> in 1887 at the Gaiety and arranged the dances.<sup id="cite_ref-behind_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-behind-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also choreographed <i><a href="/wiki/Faust_up_to_date" class="mw-redirect" title="Faust up to date">Faust up to date</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Meyer_Lutz" title="Meyer Lutz">Meyer Lutz</a>, including his famous ballet music, a <i>Pas de Quatre</i> (1888), that became very popular and is still available today on CD.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1889, he choreographed <i>Cinderella; Or, Ladybird, Ladybird, Fly Away Home</i> at <a href="/wiki/Her_Majesty%27s_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Her Majesty's Theatre">Her Majesty's Theatre</a><sup id="cite_ref-Cinderella_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cinderella-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and both choreographed and appeared in <i>Aladdin, and the Wonderful Lamp; or, The Willow Pattern plate and the Flying Crystal Palace</i> at the Crystal Palace.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other later Gaiety burlesques choreographed by D'Auban included <i><a href="/wiki/Ruy_Blas_and_the_Blas%C3%A9_Rou%C3%A9" title="Ruy Blas and the Blasé Roué">Ruy Blas and the Blasé Roué</a></i> (1889) and <i><a href="/wiki/Carmen_Up_to_Data" class="mw-redirect" title="Carmen Up to Data">Carmen Up to Data</a></i> (1890).<sup id="cite_ref-tm_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tm-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>D'Auban continued to choreograph most of the Gilbert and Sullivan and other <a href="/wiki/Savoy_Theatre" title="Savoy Theatre">Savoy Theatre</a> pieces throughout the 1880s and 1890s. These included <i><a href="/wiki/Iolanthe" title="Iolanthe">Iolanthe</a></i> (1882),<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><i><a href="/wiki/Princess_Ida" title="Princess Ida">Princess Ida</a></i> (1884),<sup id="cite_ref-tm_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tm-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mikado" title="The Mikado">The Mikado</a></i> (1885)<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (D'Auban is played by <a href="/wiki/Andy_Serkis" title="Andy Serkis">Andy Serkis</a> in the 1999 film <i><a href="/wiki/Topsy-Turvy" title="Topsy-Turvy">Topsy-Turvy</a></i> concerning the making of <i>The Mikado</i>), <i><a href="/wiki/Ruddigore" title="Ruddigore">Ruddigore</a></i> (1887),<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Yeomen_of_the_Guard" title="The Yeomen of the Guard">The Yeomen of the Guard</a></i> (1888),<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Vicar_of_Bray_(opera)" title="The Vicar of Bray (opera)">The Vicar of Bray</a></i> (1892), <i><a href="/wiki/Captain_Billy" title="Captain Billy">Captain Billy</a></i> (1892), <i><a href="/wiki/Haddon_Hall_(opera)" title="Haddon Hall (opera)">Haddon Hall</a></i> (1892),<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Jane_Annie" title="Jane Annie">Jane Annie</a></i> (1892), <i><a href="/wiki/Utopia_Limited" class="mw-redirect" title="Utopia Limited">Utopia Limited</a></i> (1893),<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Chieftain" title="The Chieftain">The Chieftain</a></i> (1894),<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Grand_Duke" title="The Grand Duke">The Grand Duke</a></i> (1896),<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/His_Majesty_(comic_opera)" class="mw-redirect" title="His Majesty (comic opera)">His Majesty</a></i> (1897),<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Grand_Duchess_of_Gerolstein" class="mw-redirect" title="The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein">The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein</a></i> (1897), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Beauty_Stone" title="The Beauty Stone">The Beauty Stone</a></i> (1898)<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Emerald_Isle" title="The Emerald Isle">The Emerald Isle</a></i> (1901).<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1890s_and_1900s">1890s and 1900s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_D%27Auban&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1890s and 1900s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:D%27Auban-Denny-Haddon-Hall.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/24/D%27Auban-Denny-Haddon-Hall.jpg/300px-D%27Auban-Denny-Haddon-Hall.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="273" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/24/D%27Auban-Denny-Haddon-Hall.jpg/450px-D%27Auban-Denny-Haddon-Hall.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/D%27Auban-Denny-Haddon-Hall.jpg 2x" data-file-width="587" data-file-height="535" /></a><figcaption>D'Auban rehearsing <a href="/wiki/W._H._Denny" title="W. H. Denny">W. H. Denny</a> for <i><a href="/wiki/Haddon_Hall_(opera)" title="Haddon Hall (opera)">Haddon Hall</a></i></figcaption></figure> <p>The 1890s were D'Auban's most prolific decade as a choreographer, with more than 70 productions in the <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a>, in some of which he also danced.<sup id="cite_ref-tm_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tm-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition to the many comic operas that he choreographed at the Savoy in the 1990s, he choreographed a series of musical pieces at the <a href="/wiki/Lyric_Theatre,_London" title="Lyric Theatre, London">Lyric Theatre</a>, beginning with <i><a href="/wiki/The_Red_Hussar" title="The Red Hussar">The Red Hussar</a></i> (1889), and including <i><a href="/wiki/La_Cigale" title="La Cigale">La Cigale</a></i> (1890), <i><a href="/wiki/Little_Christopher_Columbus" title="Little Christopher Columbus">Little Christopher Columbus</a></i> (1893) and others. In 1890, D'Auban played the Beast in the Drury Lane's Christmas pantomime of <i>Beauty and the Beast</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-behind_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-behind-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and he both performed in and choreographed <i>Humpty Dumpty or, Harlequin the Yellow Dwarf, and the Fair One with the Golden Locks</i> (1891).<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He and his wife danced in a revised version of <i>The Golden Web</i>, libretto by Frederick Corder and <a href="/wiki/B._C._Stephenson" title="B. C. Stephenson">B. C. Stephenson</a>, music by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Goring_Thomas" title="Arthur Goring Thomas">Arthur Goring Thomas</a> at the Lyric in 1893.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was the resident choreographer at the <a href="/wiki/Adelphi_Theatre" title="Adelphi Theatre">Adelphi Theatre</a> in 1892 to 1893.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His other choreographic work during this period embraced pantomime, comic opera and <a href="/wiki/Edwardian_Musical_Comedy" class="mw-redirect" title="Edwardian Musical Comedy">musical comedy</a>, including a revival of the hit comic opera <i><a href="/wiki/Dorothy_(opera)" title="Dorothy (opera)">Dorothy</a></i> by B. C. Stephenson and <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Cellier" title="Alfred Cellier">Alfred Cellier</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Duke_of_York%27s_Theatre" title="Duke of York's Theatre">Trafalgar Square Theatre</a> (1892),<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gilbert's <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mountebanks" title="The Mountebanks">The Mountebanks</a></i> at the Lyric (1892),<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Black Domino</i> by <a href="/wiki/George_R._Sims" class="mw-redirect" title="George R. Sims">George R. Sims</a> and Robert Buchanan at the <a href="/wiki/Adelphi_Theatre" title="Adelphi Theatre">Adelphi Theatre</a> (1893)<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Gilbert's <i><a href="/wiki/His_Excellency_(opera)" title="His Excellency (opera)">His Excellency</a></i> at the Lyric (1894).<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the beginning of the transition of British musical theatre from comic opera and burlesque to <a href="/wiki/Edwardian_musical_comedy" title="Edwardian musical comedy">Edwardian musical comedy</a>, he choreographed <i><a href="/wiki/An_Artist%27s_Model" title="An Artist's Model">An Artist's Model</a></i> at <a href="/wiki/Daly%27s_Theatre" title="Daly's Theatre">Daly's Theatre</a> for <a href="/wiki/George_Edwardes" title="George Edwardes">George Edwardes</a> in 1895.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1896, he choreographed a revised version of a musical, <i>The New Barmaid</i>, followed by <i>A Man About Town</i> and <i>The Mermaids</i> at the <a href="/wiki/Avenue_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Avenue Theatre">Avenue Theatre</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Aladdin</i> at Drury Lane, in which his son Ernest appeared with <a href="/wiki/Decima_Moore" title="Decima Moore">Decima Moore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dan_Leno" title="Dan Leno">Dan Leno</a> and <a href="/wiki/Paul_Cinquevalli" title="Paul Cinquevalli">Paul Cinquevalli</a><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>Black-ey'ed Susan</i> at the Adelphi.<sup id="cite_ref-tm_11-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tm-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He then choreographed the British production of <i><a href="/wiki/Lost,_Strayed_or_Stolen" title="Lost, Strayed or Stolen">Lost, Strayed or Stolen</a></i> (1897) a musical comedy by <a href="/wiki/J._Cheever_Goodwin" title="J. Cheever Goodwin">J. Cheever Goodwin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Woolson_Morse" title="Woolson Morse">Woolson Morse</a> and <a href="/wiki/Leslie_Stuart" title="Leslie Stuart">Leslie Stuart</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Duke_of_York%27s_Theatre" title="Duke of York's Theatre">Duke of York's Theatre</a><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i><a href="/wiki/Babes_in_the_Wood" title="Babes in the Wood">Babes in the Wood</a></i> at Drury Lane (1898).<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1897, he was also back at Her Majesty's Theatre with <i>Rip Van Winkle</i>, <i>Hansel and Gretel</i> and <i>The 'Prentice Pillar</i> and at the <a href="/wiki/Shaftesbury_Theatre" title="Shaftesbury Theatre">Shaftesbury Theatre</a> choreographing <i><a href="/wiki/The_Yashmak" title="The Yashmak">The Yashmak</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wizard_of_the_Nile" title="The Wizard of the Nile">The Wizard of the Nile</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-tm_11-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tm-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Skirt_dance.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4d/Skirt_dance.jpg/170px-Skirt_dance.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="242" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4d/Skirt_dance.jpg/255px-Skirt_dance.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4d/Skirt_dance.jpg/340px-Skirt_dance.jpg 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="997" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Letty_Lind" title="Letty Lind">Letty Lind</a>, one of D'Auban's students, performing a skirt dance in 1890</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1900 and 1901, D'Auban returned to the Globe Theatre with <i>The Gay Pretenders</i>, <i>A Little Supper</i> and <i>Sweet Nell of Old Drury</i>. Also in 1900, he was at the <a href="/wiki/Haymarket_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Haymarket Theatre">Haymarket Theatre</a> with <i>Sweet Nell of Old Drury</i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_School_for_Scandal" title="The School for Scandal">The School for Scandal</a></i>. In 1903, he choreographed <i><a href="/wiki/Monsieur_Beaucaire_(operetta)" class="mw-redirect" title="Monsieur Beaucaire (operetta)">Monsieur Beaucaire</a></i> at the Imperial, also choreographing many revivals of this piece in London throughout the decade.<sup id="cite_ref-tm_11-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tm-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He choreographed W. S. Gilbert's <i>Harlequin and the Fairy's Dilemma</i> at the <a href="/wiki/Garrick_Theatre" title="Garrick Theatre">Garrick Theatre</a> (1904).<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1905, he first choreographed <i><a href="/wiki/The_Scarlet_Pimpernel" title="The Scarlet Pimpernel">The Scarlet Pimpernel</a></i> at the <a href="/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward_Theatre" title="Noël Coward Theatre">New Theatre</a>, a work that he saw through several revivals. He then choreographed revivals of <i>The Yeomen of the Guard</i> (1906) and <i>The Gondoliers</i> (1907) at the Savoy for <a href="/wiki/Helen_Carte" title="Helen Carte">Helen Carte</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-tm_11-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tm-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His final productions were Gilbert's last opera, <i><a href="/wiki/Fallen_Fairies" title="Fallen Fairies">Fallen Fairies</a></i> (1909)<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and another <i>Aladdin</i> at Drury Lane, both in December 1909.<sup id="cite_ref-tm_11-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tm-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dance_teacher_and_last_years">Dance teacher and last years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_D%27Auban&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Dance teacher and last years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>D'Auban became so famous as a dance teacher that his teaching style became known as the "D'Auban school". Among his dance students were <a href="/wiki/Alice_Lethbridge" title="Alice Lethbridge">Alice Lethbridge</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Sylvia_Grey" title="Sylvia Grey">Sylvia Grey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mabel_Love" title="Mabel Love">Mabel Love</a>, <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Morris_(dancer)" title="Margaret Morris (dancer)">Margaret Morris</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lillie_Langtry" title="Lillie Langtry">Lillie Langtry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mary_Anderson_(actress,_born_1859)" title="Mary Anderson (actress, born 1859)">Mary Anderson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ruby_Ray_(actress)" title="Ruby Ray (actress)">Ruby Ray</a> and <a href="/wiki/Letty_Lind" title="Letty Lind">Letty Lind</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-History_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-History-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He partly inspired the art of <a href="/wiki/Skirt_dance" title="Skirt dance">skirt dancing</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The humour magazine <i><a href="/wiki/Punch_(magazine)" title="Punch (magazine)">Punch</a></i> honoured D'Auban in the following verse:<br /> </p> <blockquote><p>See Mr. Johnny D'Au<i>ban</i>,<br /> </p><p>He's so quick and nimble,<br /> He'd dance on a thimble,<br /> </p><p> He's more like an elf than a man.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>D'Auban died at his home in <a href="/wiki/Maida_Vale" title="Maida Vale">Maida Vale</a>, London at the age of 80.<sup id="cite_ref-Timesobit_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Timesobit-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Portrayals">Portrayals</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_D%27Auban&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Portrayals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <i><a href="/wiki/Topsy-Turvy" title="Topsy-Turvy">Topsy-Turvy</a></i>, a 1999 movie about the creation of <i>The Mikado</i>, D'Auban is portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Andy_Serkis" title="Andy Serkis">Andy Serkis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_D%27Auban&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Era_(newspaper)" title="The Era (newspaper)">The Era</a></i>, 26 May 1850, p. 13</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Era</i> <i>passim</i>, for example, 23 January 1853; 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