noun
definition
A form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied. Any entertainment featuring skits, dances, and songs.
Examples of revue in a Sentence
Kicking off is the comedy revue Let 's Kick Arts !
Another natural distinction among Broadway musicals is whether it's a play, dance musical or revue.
As a 14-year-old in Canada he and Lorne Michaels met at summer camp and began to perform a sketch revue called The Fast Show.
Schwartz Stories A new musical revue featuring the songs of Stephen Schwartz, creator of the West End hit, Wicked.
The Bing Boys are Here was Robey's first revue.
When they return for the summer, there is a tradition to put on a satirical theatrical revue.
Phyllida staged and appeared in a new musical revue called On Broadway which toured the UK.
Spike saw the revue several times and attended Noel 's farewell party.
Three Weeks " The funniest material I have seen in a revue show for ages ".
The play was a political revue sketch, padded with Existentialism to confuse the censors.
To encourage people to travel to Takarazuka and so use the new railroad, an all woman revue company was formed.
I was n't expecting an evening of poetry at this late night revue, but I became bored by the tastelessness of it.
A contemporary, Michael Flanders, then a budding schoolboy actor, penned a school revue GO TO IT !
He has appeared in a variety of television shows and will tour with the musical revue Ain't Misbehavin' in late 2008 and early 2009.
Last year we performed a song and dance revue show called Broadway 2 West End in January at The Playhouse.
I wasn't expecting an evening of poetry at this late night revue, but I became bored by the tastelessness of it.
A contemporary, Michael Flanders, then a budding schoolboy actor, penned a school revue GO TO IT!
The Bing Boys are Here was Robey 's first revue.
Every evening, Norwegian passengers are treated to excellent entertainment, from soloists and comedians to revue shows and abridged drama productions.
A live jazz band and the My Hawaii-Lei of Memories Revue provide the entertainment.
The "Glorified Girls" featured in the mainstream Broadway revue of Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. also made nudity more and more acceptable on the stage with opulent tableaux such as "Lady Godiva's Ride" in the Follies of 1919.
A pop music showcase revue is also popular for all ages, and daily parades bring the entertainment to every corner of the park.
During this time, Lambert also sang sporadically with local bands and appeared in solo revue shows.
A few short Pisidian inscriptions have been published by Ramsay in Revue des etudes anciennes (18 95, pp. 353-3 62).
Theologie et philosophie (1868-1872), an account of foreign literature on those subjects, was continued as Revue de theologie et de philosophie (1873) at Lausanne.
Current periodicals are Hollandsche revue, monthly; De Gids (1837), monthly; De nieuwe Gids (1886), monthly; De Architect, bi-monthly; Caecilia (for music); Tijdschrift voor Strafrecht; Museum, for philology (1893), monthly; Tijdschrift voor nederlandsche taal en letterkunde; Nederlandsch Archievenblad; De Paleograaf; Elseviers geillustreerd Maandschrift, monthly; Groot Nederland, monthly.
Among later periodicals we may mention Skandia (1833-1837); Literaturbladet (1838-1840); Stallningar och Forhallanden (1838) of Crusenstolpe, a monthly review of Scandinavian history; Tidskrift for Litteratur (1850); Norsk Tidsskrift (1852), weekly, Forr och Nu; and the Revue suedoise (1858) of Kramer, written in French.
Space forbids any attempt to sketch here the special growth of criticism in other countries, such as France, where the brilliant genius of Renan was in part devoted to the Old Testament, or within the Roman Catholic Church, which possesses in Pere Lagrange, for example, a deservedly influential critical scholar, and in the Revue Biblique an organ which devotes much attention to the critical study of the Old Testament.
Kicking off is the comedy revue Let's Kick Arts!
I took time out from the piled-up work to go to the " Red & Black " student revue this week.
Reinach (Revue des etudes grecques, xix., 1906), who draws special attention to the similar formation "hierophant," the sycophant was an official connected with the cult of the Phytalidae, whose eponymus Phytalus was rewarded with a fig-tree by the wandering Demeter in return for his hospitality.
Articles written in common soon led to a complete literary partnership, and 1831 there appeared in the Revue de Paris a joint novel entitled Prima Donna and signed Jules Sand.
Parker in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Journal asiatique, Revue numismatique, Asiatic Quarterly, &c. (C. EL.) EPI, the French architectural term for a light finial, generally of metal, but sometimes of terra-cotta, e forming the termination of a spire or the angle of a roof.
The authorities for the Crusades have been collected in Bongars, Gesta Dei per Francos (Hanover, 1611) (incomplete); Michaud, Bibliotheque des croisades (Paris, 1829) (containing translations of select passages in the authorities); the Recueil des historiens des croisades, published by the Academie des Inscriptions (Paris, 1841 onwards) (the best general collection, containing many of the Latin, Greek, Arabic and Armenian authorities, and also the text of the assizes; but sometimes poorly edited and still .incomplete); and the publications of the Societe de l'Orient Latin (founded in 1875), especially the Archives, of which two volumes were published in 1881 and 1884, and the volumes of the Revue, published yearly from 1893 to 1902, and containing not only new texts, but articles and reviews of books which are of great service.
Reinach (Revue archeologique, 1903), Tantalus was represented in a picture standing in a lake and clinging to the branches of a tree, which gave rise to the idea that he was endeavouring to pluck its fruit.
Eminent as a philosopher, Ravaisson was also an archaeologist, and contributed articles on ancient sculpture to the Revue Archeologique and the Memoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions.
The first course was published in the Revue d'histoire et de litterature religieuses; and here also appeared instalments of his commentary on St John's Gospel, his critically important Notes sur la Genese, and a Chronique biblique unmatched in its mastery of its numberless subjects and its fearless yet delicate penetration.
Here he continued his important reviews, notably in the Revue d'histoire et de litterature religieuses, and published Morceaux d'exegese (1906), six further sections of his synoptic commentary.
In 1884 he graduated with two theses, Simon de Montfort and La Condamnation de Jean Sansterre (Revue historique, 1886).
In 1841 he established the Revue independante, with the aid of George Sand, over whom he had great influence.
In 1843 he established at Boussac (Creuse) a printing association organized according to his systematic ideas, and founded the Revue sociale.
He was the chief founder of the Revue generale de chimie in 1899.
Notices in Greek authors are collected by P. Paulitschke, Die geographische Erforschung des afrikanischen Continents (Vienna, 1880); the inscriptions were edited and interpreted by G, Maspero, Revue archeol.
It was preceded by a few months by the Revue de Paris (1829-1845), founded by Veron, who introduced the novel to periodical literature.
In 1875 he founded the Revue Historique, which rapidly became a great authority on scientific education.
Notes et Revue, ser.
Eventually he settled in Paris, where he at once attracted attention by brilliant literary criticisms, at first chiefly on great foreign writers, contributed to the Revue des deux mondes.
Antula, Revue generale des gisernents metalliferes en Serbie (with map, Paris, 1900); Th.
A uniform edition of his works was begun in 1908, see Revue de theologie et philosophic (Lausanne, 1908, 234 sqq.).
Spike saw the revue several times and attended Noel's farewell party.