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A style of multi-act theatrical entertainment which originated from France and flourished in Europe and North America from the 1880s through the 1920s.
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An entertainment in this style.
Examples of vaudeville in a Sentence
By night he was donning a frock coat and bow tie in the last of the great seaside vaudeville shows witnessed on the Island.
Charged with murder, Roxie goes to jail where she meets her idol, the vaudeville singer Velma Kelly (Jones).
At 15, he toured the New England Vaudeville Circuit as a juggler, unicyclist, magician, and comedian.
Vaudeville historian Joe Laurie, Jr. claimed that vaudeville headliner Eva Tanguay let the veils drop in her version of the Salome dance in 1912.
Some examples of other names of steps are botafogo, jazz box, kick ball change, mambo step, military turn, sugarfoot, vaudeville - a complete list is impossible because the art is constantly changing.
Various folk dances arrived with immigrant groups and by the mid-19th century vaudeville and ballroom dance were popular.
The foxtrot has gone all the way from the vaudeville stage to prime time TV on shows like Dancing with the Stars.
His drinking songs became famous under the name of Vaux-de-Vire, corrupted in modern times into "vaudeville."
There 's a little vaudeville in there, smatterings of jazz, and a healthy dose of snotty punk.
His first professional work came accompanying vaudeville performers, and he was part of a troupe that broke up in Kansas City in 1927.
In 1914, while watching a friend rehearse at a vaudeville theater, she was approached by a talent scout for Fox.
A talent scout visits a Broadway booker to sell him a new vaudeville act he has seen.
He was not Chinese at all, but an American vaudeville artist and conjuror called William Ellsworth Robinson.
The Original Chinese Conjuror is presented as a vaudeville show in the pavilion of a seaside pier.
The striptease represented a return to the flash-and-tickle approach of populist vaudeville dancers.
The star performers of this era employed all the over-the-top shtick of 50 years of vaudeville in their acts.
In America, men in drag were popular on the vaudeville circuit, but otherwise not widely seen.
Taken off the streets and brought to Vaudeville in the 1900s, tap was on Broadway and in jazz festivals by the 1950s.
Openned in 1907, it included large picnic lawns, a band shell, and a stage for vaudeville productions.
Her parents were vaudeville performers, and by the age of two, Garland was joining them on stage.
In 1857, having been persuaded to make a play of the novel of Dalila, he brought out this piece at the Vaudeville, and enjoyed a brilliant success; on this occasion he positively broke through the consigne and went up to Paris to see his play rehearsed.