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.
It took 34 years for Stephen Schwartz's once-ubiquitous rock musical, in which the gospel according to St. Matthew is enacted as a circuslike vaudeville turn, to make it back to Broadway, and by all rights the results should have been dated beyond hope of resuscitation. That Wild and Crazy Messiah
The vaudeville star Eddie Cantor called Linkletter the best ad-libber in radio. TV's 'People Are Funny' Host Art Linkletter Dies
In Edinburgh, we are promised the best of contemporary burlesque and vaudeville performers.
Yet the music they played, fuzzed garage punk that lifted liberally from such diverse strands as doo-wop, vaudeville, blues and sugary teen pop, absolutely refused to take any prisoners.
Most mandolinists did not play for classical music audiences but rather played in noisy vaudeville acts.
The rest of what was put on was mostly farce; light comedies, very often French, sentimental tear-jerkers and vaudeville.
Father stayed on the vaudeville circuit for a few years after he and mother got married.
The vaudeville act of "The Fighting Keatons" concentrated almost completely on the category known as knockabout farce. Instant Education
The troupe's signature use of satire, vaudeville, mime and spoken word dramatizes the voices of the socially invisible and the New Americans, offering a fresh examination of cultures in flux. Playbill.com : News
It's a tragicomic turn of equal parts emotional heft and vaudeville vitality. Times, Sunday Times
Christmas would bring back the memory of losing his father, a minor vaudeville star and alcoholic, who died when Charlie was a child.
Adding drama to the downtown scene are the melodramas and vaudeville revues presented at the Gaslighter Theater.
I was always a mimic as a child, and that was my dream; to be in - you know, I wished I was in Vaudeville or something, doing different sketches.
Though his banner read burlesque, he occasionally dabbled in slightly more legitimate vaudeville fare.
He was a vaudeville headliner of growing stature when he went into radio.
Adding drama to the downtown scene are the melodramas and vaudeville revues presented at the Gaslighter Theater.
Don't be distracted by the tired old vaudeville routine in Europe.
Drinking songs, in vaudeville performances, were often performed by cross-dressed women.
But in Dream Cruise he's channeling vaudeville.
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.
Amy Chua lives in New Haven, Conn., in an imposing mock-Tudor mansion — complete with gargoyles — that was built in the 1920s for a vaudeville impresario.
This New York circus duo have been a hit off-Broadway with their brand of vaudeville, kitsch and bad behaviour.
The piano player for the theater was a former vaudeville performer named Cora Salisbury.
It's an appropriate venue for the show's vaudeville-burlesque revivalism with a sapphic flavour.
He was effectively born in a trunk; his parents worked in a vaudeville company run by his grandmother, and as a child he joined them on stage in their comedy act.
Much of the step material in the dances came from popular culture sources such as ballrooms and vaudeville stages.
Drawing from various theatrical traditions, such as clowning, pantomime, charades, acrobatics and vaudeville, "Godspell" is a groundbreaking and unique reflection on the life of Jesus, with a message of kindness, tolerance and love. BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
Participants got hip to this and more at Tease-O-Rama 2002, the second annual national convention devoted to reviving burlesque, go-go dancing, and vaudeville.
The most impressive moment is the vaudeville-esque outro, fleshed out with seemingly decaying accordions.
As late as 1927, the year of the first big sound film, the Jazz singer still sounded eupeptic about vaudeville's fortunes.
About the same time, Bob Hope, like every other comic in vaudeville, learned a useful lesson: When a sketch starts to tank, it's safer to make the audience part of the act than to pretend it isn't there.
The most impressive moment is the vaudeville-esque outro, fleshed out with seemingly decaying accordions.
Groucho, who had taken to wearing a fake greasepaint moustache in vaudeville, refused to grow a real one for the cameras.
Historical: blackface was used in minstrel shows and later in blackface sketches in more mainstream vaudeville to humorously denigrate African Americans. SNL's Fauxbama Blackface Thing
Part of the appeal was the venue, the Théatre National, an old vaudeville house on Ste-Catherine E. recently restored to a semblance of its former glory.
Note that this is _canticum_ and the effect of the two "sing-songing" slaves on the audience must have been much the same as, upon us, the spectacle of a vaudeville "duo," entering from opposite wings and singing perchance a burlesque of grand opera at each other. The Dramatic Values in Plautus
In English Canada, Shakespeare served as protection against the incursions of American commercialism; in French Canada, against imported French vaudevilles.
He was an old-style rat-a-tat Henny Youngman style gagman, and you could just imagine him on a stage in the waning days of vaudeville wearing a suit with oversized plaid pattern, a gigantic daisy and big shoes.
Astaire and Rogers came to movies from vaudeville and Broadway, where they had to Americanize their names imagine a dance team called Austerlitz and McMath! NPR Topics: News
Or somebody's told them something,' said Wolters, no vaudeville menace but quiet, with weight. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Shown infrequently at first, movies earned a regular place on Ontario vaudeville show bills over the next 10 years.
A more fundamental objection has been that music-hall and vaudeville were essentially controlled by showmen who were of course entrepreneurs.
In other words, most Japanese comedy, both live and on television, has been closer to what Americans would term low-budget farce - physical comedians, often performing in traditional, vaudeville-style duos replete with a straight man - doing silly pranks that allows the audience to feel superior to what they are seeing on their TVs. News - chicagotribune.com
He could tell you all about one Professor Lamberti, a vaudeville and burlesque performer who did magic tricks in addition to being the "world's daffiest xylophonist. Boing Boing
Their march will take them to the old Town Hall, which has been replaced by ‘The Palace,’ a saloon that features vaudeville acts and dancing girls.
Rodney Harrison, who knows everybody who _is_ anybody, has introduced me to some vaudeville-powers-that-be and I am encouraged to try my hand at what they call a sketch -- a one-act play. Jane Journeys On
Early film included actors from theater and vaudeville, entertainers from the circus, boxers, dancers, and non-actors caught in actualities or put on screen for staged events.
The rest of what was put on was mostly farce; light comedies, very often French, sentimental tear-jerkers and vaudeville.
After all, Sebastian and Viola have performed this scene before: when he peels off her moustache in this recognition scene, it's a reprise of their shipboard vaudeville act.
The earliest version of the genre was heavily tied to the local medicine show and vaudeville traditions, lasting well into the late '30s.
A vaudeville with hors d’ouevres, a sloe gin fizz to a fast jazz beat, doilies but no undies - “The Wild Party” has it all. Live Arts Announces New Season at cvillenews.com
They wintered in Miami, where Picon did four vaudeville shows a day. Jewish Women in Comedy - Molly Picon
Yet despite all its suspensefulness, The Talented Mr. Ripley when viewed from a slightly different angle approaches the comic: Tom must switch from one persona to another like a vaudeville quick-change artist, even as the plot complications start to recall classic farces about the mixups resulting from mistaken identities. This Woman Is Dangerous
The performance by street children of the project, uses the whole repertoire from tamasha to vaudeville to create a delightful play around a poor child's desire to get education.
A character based on the prototypical French soldat-laboreur figured in La cocarde tricolore, a vaudeville performed in Paris in 1832 and set during the taking of Algiers two years earlier.
The ukulele, the Hawaiian gift that enlivened vaudeville halls across North America and Europe in the early 20th century, has two exemplars in a glass case, next to a paragraph of dry information.
He could tell you all about one Professor Lamberti, a vaudeville and burlesque performer who did magic tricks in addition to being the "world's daffiest xylophonist. Boing Boing
Adding drama to the downtown scene are the melodramas and vaudeville revues presented at the Gaslighter Theater.
That can't last, of course, for "Cat's Cradle" is jampacked with Vonnegut's characteristically searing sarcasm and vaudeville tempo. Longacre Lea unravels the twisted string theory of Vonnegut's 'Cat's Cradle'
vaudeville...waged an uneven battle against the church
Hope instinctively knew that he needed to build a marketable image for himself if he was going to stand out from all the other vaudeville and radio comics trying to break into movies in the 1930s.
It was fertilized by blues, gospel, string-band hoedowns, Appalachian balladry, work songs, and vaudeville hokum.
You sometimes hear some bar-room comedian and booze recitationist, who draws a hamfatter's salary in a continuous vaudeville, declare to half drunken listeners that there are good women on the stage. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
Cellier wrote numerous comic operas, vaudevilles, one grand opera, The Masque of Pandora, and a few instrumental works.
As early as 1913, Billboard, a music industry journal, had begun printing weekly sheet music bestseller charts and surveys of the most popular songs in vaudeville.
The 16-year-old Shakespeare in the Park company moved into new digs this year in a former vaudeville house, the Rex, which had fallen into disrepair.
Rather like an old vaudeville hoofer, they must shimmy and shake with one eye one the audience and another on the white cane lurking in the wings.
Vaudeville shows presented short plays , singers , comedians who made people laugh and other acts.
His career, which included stints as an amateur boxer, minstrel in black face and dancer, spanned seven decades in which he starred in five mediums: vaudeville, radio, stage, movies and television.
Yet the music they played, fuzzed garage punk that lifted liberally from such diverse strands as doo-wop, vaudeville, blues and sugary teen pop, absolutely refused to take any prisoners.
Once a vaudeville dancer on Broadway, Shirley Slesinger Lasswell is now 80.
The depression wiped out not only the Follies, but also the Vaudeville touring circuit.
He eventually found work with a carnival, and later made his way into vaudeville as a juggler.
Gymnase, Lucien and Hector Merlin went arm-inarm to the Vaudeville. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
Cutter is no suave sophisticate, but Grant's background in vaudeville honed his comic sensibilities and paved his way to wonderful performances in classic screwball comedies like Bringing Up Baby.
Alas, even the most credulous of children find it pretty hard to suspend disbelief when all your heroes end up looking like vaudeville characters on the turps.
As for her most memorable lines, they are demonstrable reworkings of old vaudeville and burlesque gags that had been kicking around since the dawn of creation.
In competition with musical comedy, burlesque houses, nightclubs, and especially the movies, vaudeville declined in the 1920s.
His brand of unstable impro vaudeville could take White far. Robert White
Mashing up musical performances, burlesque-style dance numbers, and hilarious dialogue in between, this inventive take on the burlesque genre is the perfect blend of what Marquardt calls a "cutey-pie, vaudeville throw-back" and contemporary satire and humor. PHOTOS: Two Must-See Burlesque Shows In LA
Do we have to emphasize that this highly complex mode of recitation with accompaniment has nothing to do with the rhythmical parlando practiced by vaudeville singers in the 19th century?
Kitty becomes, in her mother's eyes, a fallen woman after being flattered into using her singing talent for a career on the vaudeville stage.
As a mere acrobat one has to be a top-liner and wonderfully expert to get any kind of a salary at all, but as an acrobatic dancer you can command a place in the very best stage productions, high class musical comedies, musical revues, vaudeville, etc., and also in the better grade motion pictures and presentations, and get a very good salary. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession
Trouble began at once with the vocalists for my first concert, fixed for 14th November, as the baritone, Hauser, who was to sing 'Wotan's Farewell' and Hans Sachs's 'Cobbler Song,' was ill and had to be replaced by a voiceless though well-drilled vaudeville singer. My Life — Volume 2
Like a vaudeville performer, Victorian novelist, or stand-up comic, Hirst will do anything to hold your attention.
Though his banner read burlesque, he occasionally dabbled in slightly more legitimate vaudeville fare.
The Classic has been many things in its lifetime: an acting space, a cinema, a porn palace, a vaudeville establishment, and - until recently - a disused warehouse.
(l) _The preparation of property plots and light plots_ has been mentioned in the chapter on "The Vaudeville Stage and Its Dimensions," therefore they require a word here. Writing for Vaudeville
But to me, the thing is mostly funny - and it was, after all, named after a Vaudeville comedian who used a wild-looking bent gnarly cane.
There must be some old, ailing, senile politician, vaudeville comedian or sports-man around whose death-bed you could perch like a flock of vultures.
In 1924, Seldes came out with a book called The 7 Lively Arts, a celebration of comic strips, vaudeville, slapstick, musical comedy, and other non-elitist culture.
It's set in the early 60s, when a middle-aged magician is touring the fading vaudeville circuit and rock and roll and old age are nipping at his heels. Michael Giltz: Toronto Film Fest Days 1 And 2: Midnight Madness
Though his banner read burlesque, he occasionally dabbled in slightly more legitimate vaudeville fare.
He shimmies and shakes, and tap-dances like a vaudeville pro across the bar and cabaret stage.
In 1915, Eubie teamed with an ambitious young entrepreneur, Noble Sissle, for vaudeville appearances.
Singalongs, comedy acts, and ‘variety’ performances were staged in pubs regularly before music halls and vaudeville theatres became firmly established from the mid-nineteenth century.
This tragedy is transformed into a tragicomedy, and indeed, into a farce, by a mechanical device that belongs more to vaudeville than to a novel.
The radio personalities and vaudeville comedians brought their heightened creativity to the medium and it finally gained a wide audience.
The dynamic reminds me of the old George Burns and Gracie Allen vaudeville routine about the property implications of marriage.
Instead these are the tunes which best capture a group who blended vaudeville, punk and Marvel comics, including the live version of the title track - as close as you can get to their incendiary stage performance.
This New York circus duo have been a hit off-Broadway with their brand of vaudeville, kitsch and bad behaviour.
It made its presence felt in turn-of-the-century vaudevilles and was crucial to many Hollywood comedies in the years surrounding World War II, particularly the films of Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder.
If the context is tragic, however, the daily practice of spiritualism was a theatrical spectacle that, as Gaskill says, drew on ‘farce, burlesque and vaudeville’.
For a start, he can play the part of a tech villain from central casting: a vaudeville baddy so malevolent that the audience starts hissing as soon as he comes on stage.
1895 Paul's theatrograph or animatograph was completed, and in the following year he began his engagement at the Alhambra Theater, where the novelty was planned as a vaudeville show for a few days but stayed for many a year, since it proved at once an unprecedented success. The Photoplay A Psychological Study
When sophisticates lost interest, he-ever resourceful-traded his evening suit for a Western hat and chaps and took his Indians to Vaudeville.
The combination of the suit's antiquated style and Clyde's robust build gave him the appearance of a vaudeville barker. DO NO HARM
Even vaudeville theaters ranged in price between ten cents and a dollar in the 1890s, and they attracted thousands of working-class visitors each year.
Their dancing, if I can even dignify it as such, was a composite of waist twisting, arm flailing and a vaudeville-style feet shuffle.

How To Use Vaudeville In A Sentence

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