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Vaudeville, Théâtre du, Paris, playhouse which opened in 1792 in the rue de Chartres to house the actors forced to leave the
Comédie-Italienne when its licence was renewed for musical plays only. The company was frequently in trouble for the topical and political allusions in its productions. It eventually fell back on semi-historical pieces, based on anecdotes of heroic figures. Closed in 1838, it reopened two years later on the place de la Bourse; closed again by town planners in 1869, it moved to the chaussée d'Antin, where it operated until 1927 and then became a cinema. In its heyday this third theatre housed productions of comedies by
Labiche and others, as well as the social dramas of
Brieux and
Ibsen.
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VAUDEVILLE COMES HOME.(Weekend)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 9/26/1986; 700+ words
; ...Byline: Sari R. Botton "We opened with vaudeville," said Dennis Madden, executive director...says 'Proctor's' on one side and 'Vaudeville' on the other." Which makes it fitting...Saturday night, Proctor's brings back vaudeville, in an updated presentation by Hubbard...
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Lazer Vaudeville melds cutting-edge technology with old-fashioned talent
Newspaper article from: St. Joseph News-Press; 1/16/2004; ; 700+ words
; Vaudeville gave way to silent films, and silent...there's more than one way to bring vaudeville into the modern day, says Cindy Marvell...members in the touring production Lazer Vaudeville, which comes to the Missouri Theater...
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 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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Vaudeville returns Presto! It's the '20s all over again as two groups pack their shows with jugglers, magicians and dancers.(Time Out!)(Main event)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 7/25/2003; 700+ words
; ...the bill, the answer is not baseball - it's vaudeville. The popular 1920s-era theater genre was big...on the same stage. Both Chicago Burlesque and Vaudeville and Vaudeville Underground put on shows once a month in the city...
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VIRTUALLY VAUDEVILLE VAUDEVILLE GAVE AMERICA NOT ONLY HOPE AND HOUDINI, GROUCHO AND FIELDS, IT GAVE US OUR POPULAR CULTURE AND A SENSE OF OURSELVES. NOW, A GROUP OF THEATER HISTORIANS IS BRINGING VAUDEVILLE BACK TO LIFE - IN CYBERSPACE.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/20/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Salome." Variety was the essence of vaudeville, the wildly popular entertainment that...and dime museum on Washington Street, vaudeville proved as diverse in its audience as...father of playwright Edward Albee. Vaudeville, he suggested, exemplified American...
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Blue Vaudeville: Sex, Morals and the Mass Marketing of Amusement, 1895-1915/From Traveling Show to Vaudeville: Theatrical Spectacle in America, 1830-1910
Magazine article from: Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Andrew L. Erdman, Blue Vaudeville: Sex, Morals and the Mass Marketing...Lewis, From Traveling Show to Vaudeville: Theatrical Spectacle in America...various forms of popular theatre - Vaudeville, Music Hall, Minstrelsy, the...
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Vaudeville, Voice Of Variety
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/15/1989; ; 700+ words
; THE VOICE OF THE CITY Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York...this modest but appealing book that vaudeville, the medium of popular entertainment...puts it in his introduction: "Vaudeville was slapstick clowns and devilish...
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A vaudeville comeback Regent marks its 90th year
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/19/2006; ; 700+ words
; Behind the scenes / Voltaic Vaudeville The Regent Theatre, 7 Medford St., Arlington Today...most popular form of entertainment at that time - vaudeville. "In its heyday, vaudeville was where it was at," said Leland Stein, the Regent...
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Vaudeville: forerunner to the movies.
Magazine article from: Cobblestone; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...the 1880s through the 1920s, vaudeville was America's most popular...entertainment. A kind of variety show, vaudeville featured comedy, magic, song...many other acts. The word "vaudeville" comes from the French, perhaps...
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Vaudeville philosophers: "The Killers.".(short story by Ernest Hemingway)
Magazine article from: Twentieth Century Literature; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...is Hemingway's acquaintance by 1926 with vaudeville and with the idea of vaudeville. The connection has long been noted: in 1959...Brooks and Robert Penn Warren mentioned the "vaudeville team" of Max and Al, and the "gag" and...
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Schtick to the facts, Ma'am: three wildly different studies on vaudeville cover the major circuits in the history of that old hardy har har har.(Vaudeville Humor: The Collected Jokes, Routines, and Skits of Ed Lowry)(Vaudeville Old and New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America)(Vaudeville Wars: How the Keith-Albee and Orpheum Circuits Controlled the Big-Time and Its Performers)(Book review)
Magazine article from: American Theatre; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; VAUDEVILLE HUMOR: THE COLLECTED JOKES, ROUTINES...Carbondale, Ill. 476 pp, $17.95 paper. VAUDEVILLE OLD AND NEW: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF VARIETY...2 vol., 1375 pp, $295 cloth. VAUDEVILLE WARS: HOW THE KEITH-ALBEE AND ORPHEUM...
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Vaudeville
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
VAUDEVILLE VAUDEVILLE. Vaudeville flourished as a form of variety theater from the 1880s to the late 1930s, when it succumbed to competing forms of popular entertainment, particularly "talking" pictures. Recent historians have portrayed vaudeville...
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Vaudeville in America
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Vaudeville in America. In this country the term “vaudeville” has almost never had the same connotation...Nonetheless, most see the real seeds of modern vaudeville in the “free concert saloons,”...
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Theater: Vaudeville
Book article from: American Decades
THEATER: VAUDEVILLE The Heyday of Vaudeville The first two decades of the twentieth century were the heyday of vaudeville, a theatrical form that included performances such as music, dance, light drama, comedy, juggling, magic acts, animal...
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vaudeville
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
vaudeville , originally a light song, derived...to the English music hall , American vaudeville was a live entertainment consisting...origins in barrooms and "museums," vaudeville became the dominant attraction in American...
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Vaudeville, American
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Vaudeville, American, name adopted in the USA...programme of what was later to be known as vaudeville. It consisted of eight contrasting...system, which led to the appearance in vaudeville of star names from the theatre—...
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