Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed

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Galatea
or Pygmalion Reversed
Music	Meyer Lutz
Book	Henry Pottinger Stephens W. Webster
Based upon	The Pygmalion legend
Productions	1883 West End

Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed is a musical burlesque that parodies the Pygmalion legend. The libretto was written by Henry Pottinger Stephens and W. Webster. The score was composed by Wilhelm Meyer Lutz.

The production was performed at the Gaiety Theatre, London in 1883. Under the management of John Hollingshead since 1868, the Gaiety Theatre was a venue for variety, continental operetta, light comedy, and numerous musical burlesques, such as Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed, composed or arranged by the theatre's music director, Wilhelm Meyer Lutz. Hollingshead called himself a "licensed dealer in legs, short skirts, French adaptations, Shakespeare, taste and musical glasses."^[1] Later, the theatre became the home of musical comedies, under the management of George Edwardes.