To celebrate their scheme, Thespis, Bacchus, Thalie, Momus and the bar's other patrons break into dance.
Dance is always an important part of French baroque opera.
When Rameau wrote this entertainment in 1745, he parodied the hackneyed conventions of antique theater. For us, Morris parodies the dance conventions of Rameau's day. The choreography is an anachronistic outrage, but Rameau's musty gavottes, courantes, and allemaines never looked or sounded fresher. Rameau wrote the part for a haute contre , a high voice close to what the English call a countertenor, or male alto. The show was also quite raunchy.