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vaudeville

[ UK /vˈɔːdəvˌɪl/ ]
[ US /ˈvɑdvɪɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a variety show with songs and comic acts etc.

How To Use vaudeville In A Sentence

  • In many cases, well-qualified songs from musicals, operettas, vaudeville, and revues, as well as variety shows, music hall, and cafe concert, were recruited for use in cabarets.
  • And, oh, the playacting, the tussles for territory, the acts of intellectual vaudeville that ensue. Times, Sunday Times
  • Continuous vaudeville, paceless and placeless, kept "uniform time. The Tyranny of the Clock
  • He worked in burlesque and vaudeville theaters and then on Broadway in such plays as The Night Circus (1958), One More River (1960), and Do Re Mi (1962). Five People Born at the End of April | myFiveBest
  • Besides being a movie theatre, this place presented vaudeville shows. THREE IN ONE
  • They involve a singing frog, a vaudeville show, the impresario who runs it, and the mad scientist who works for him.
  • But if, as one would assume the picture came from some kind of vaudeville stage-show, that would explain the bare bosoms, but what was the significance or point of putting a ship on the lady's head?
  • It's essentially a series of vaudeville comedy routines.
  • Italian theaters and music halls, for example, largely gave way to vaudeville, nickelodeons, organized sports, and radio programming.
  • The courtroom became a vaudeville theatre, as the MP lampooned his interrogators, accusing them of making ‘schoolboy howler’ mistakes.
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