1) Broadway offering 2) Comedy genre 3) French word used in English 4) Light theatrical piece 5) Milieu of Moran and Mack 6) Music hall 7) Old-style entertainment 8) Variety 9) Variety show
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1) Music hall
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Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment. It was especially popular in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. A typical vaudeville performance is made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. Types of acts have included popular and classical musicians, singers,...
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• (n.) Loosely, and now commonly, variety (see above), as, to play in vaudeville; a vaudeville actor. • (n.) A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song. • (n.) A theatrical piece, usually a comedy, the di...
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light entertainment popular in the United States from the mid-1890s until the early 1930s that consisted of 10 to 15 individual unrelated acts, ... [11 related articles]
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Stage entertainment popular in the USA from the 1890s to the 1920s, featuring a variety of acts such as comedy sketches, song-and-dance routines, and so on. Vaudeville is in the same tradition...
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Vaude'ville noun [ French, from
Vau-de- vire , a village in Normandy, where Olivier Basselin, at the end of the 14th century, composed such songs.] [ Written also
vaudevil .]
1. A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung ...
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Vaude'ville noun Loosely, and now commonly, variety (see above), as, to play in
vaudeville ; a
vaudeville actor.
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In drama, vaudeville is a light and amusing play in which dialogue is intermingled with songs, and almost identical with musical comedy. The term originated in the 15th century with Olivier Basselin of the valleys of the Vire, in Normandy, the author of a number of drinking and love songs, which he circulated under the title Lais des Vaux de Vire, ...
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n] - a variety show with songs and comic acts etc.
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a form of stage entertainment that includes a variety of acts; was extremely popular in the early 20th century; the term comes from the Valley of Vire in France, known for its music and entertainment in the 15th century.
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music hall noun a variety show with songs and comic acts etc.
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Anti-naturalistic performance style in which the actor reminds the viewer that the character is not
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