He began writing burlesques of melodramas and extravaganzas in the mid-1850s. For the stage he wrote 55 pieces, ranging from burlesques to pantomimes, farces and extravaganzas. "Sweethearts" (1874) and several other libretti, farces, extravaganzas, fairy comedies, dramas and adaptations. These extravaganzas were theatrical productions on a massive scale. It is, undoubtedly, the cornerstone for theatrical extravaganzas staged in South Asia. Theatrical extravaganzas, in particular, moving panoramas, demonstrated a vocabulary of the spectacular. Proms worked their way down incrementally from college gatherings to high school extravaganzas. He designed costumes for the Medici extravaganzas. It was a comedy with songs, a form generally called "musical extravaganzas" at the time. The program examines the catering process behind big event extravaganzas such as the Grammy Awards. F. W. Bateson included the play in his 1963 list of "satirical extravaganzas". It is the Queen Mary of extravaganzas. From this time on he no longer made prints after Spranger's extravaganzas.