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Type Words
Synonyms music hall
Type of variety, variety show

Examples of vaudeville

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Stone began as a circus and vaudeville performer and later appeared on Broadway.
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Lockwood's goofy vaudeville sidekick Cosmo Brown is played by Brennan Keel Cook.
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When she was 7, Lee was pushed into performing in vaudeville acts by her mother.
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The show features 52-person tap numbers, live animals and vaudeville-style acts.
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At the turn of the last century, comedians developed their shtick in vaudeville.
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In scholars, lawyers, doctors and vaudeville comedians, Jewishness is tolerated.
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By the 1930s, a stage had been installed for live vaudeville and burlesque acts.
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The Companion Piece An aging vaudeville headliner crosses paths with a new duo.
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They won a pair of radio contests and toured the East Coast vaudeville circuit.
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More examples
  • A variety show with songs and comic acts etc.
  • (vaudevillian) a performer who works in vaudeville
  • Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. ...
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  • A vaudeville is a French satirical poem or song born of the 17th and 18th centuries. Its name is lent to the French theatrical entertainment comu00E9die en vaudeville of the 19th and 20th century. From these vaudeville took its name.
  • A style of multi-act theatrical entertainment which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s; An entertainment in this style
  • A variety show meant to be presented in a music hall, with popular songs, dances, mimes, actors and stand-up comics.
  • The travelling minstrel shows of the 19th century US led to vaudeville s established variety-show circuit; it was popular until modern times - presumably television was its undoing (the Ed Sullivan show was said to be vaudeville s last gasp). ...
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