| 单词 | vaudeville |
| 例句 | On a bracing afternoon, he escorted Weaver into the Radiation Laboratory and showed him the twenty-seven-inch cyclotron, not skimping on the vaudeville of the lavender deuteron beam shooting into the air. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I went to the office and looked up their records and found that most of them had spent their lives playing cheap vaudeville. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Very probably, it was not part of the sofa vaudeville of a showoff but, rather, the private, exposed achievement of a young man who, at one time or another, might have tried shaving himself left-handed. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The beam not only facilitated more sophisticated experiments but also provided a new “vaudeville” for Lawrence to exploit, for it never failed to elicit gasps of astonishment from his visitors. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They went to a vaudeville stage show, visited the tomb of an unknown soldier from the Great War, and took in a light opera. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In films and on the vaudeville stage blacks were portrayed as comic dolts, stupid and lazy, unable to speak proper English, much less sing fluently in foreign languages. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Blake, who was from Maryland, was the only surviving child of eight born to former slaves, and like Chaplin he had learnt his trade as a vaudeville performer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z His father had been a vaudeville dancer and singer and had achieved quite a bit of success in the black entertainment outlets. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Like the guy in the old vaudeville skit, the guy in the folding cot that won’t stay folded, Jerome flipped straight up, wide awake. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They came to the brilliantly lighted façade of a big vaudeville house. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Early Blues singers moulded tunes with African inflexions in them on to chords borrowed from American hymns, parlour, folk and vaudeville songs. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z When he was young he’d wanted to go into the theater: in the army he used to act in military vaudevilles. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z She had a wonderful memory of journeying to a strange part of Brooklyn to see the great Sarah Bernhardt in a one-act play in a Keith vaudeville house. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Mack intended to teach her tricks and go in vaudeville and he didn’t even housebreak her. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The three hops of the bunny became three struts of a vaudeville vamp. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Yet I had to fight him as I could, in terms he understood, even though we sounded like characters in a razor-slinging vaudeville skit. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Several acts of vaudeville tonight for my entertainment. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z And it introduces Billy Minsky, the vaudeville and burlesque impresario, as another major character. Books of The Times: A Life Built on Illusion: More Tease Than Strip 2010-12-19T23:12:36Z The concert mimics the performances of the McNultys, right, a well-known vaudeville act in New York from the 1930s through the ’60s. Weekend Miser 2011-03-10T22:22:31Z The cackling can sound like a chicken who is facing his certain death; the eye rolling suggests that vaudeville is not dead. Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall? The Fascination of Odd Couples 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z A tongue-in-cheek homage to vaudeville, entertainment that was an American staple from the late 19th century through about 1930, “Moxie” features, as one of its endearingly hapless performer characters, a musician who plays the saw. Happenstance’s gleeful hat tip to vaudeville with a wink to the present-day 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z As he approached the climax, a giant, gaudy blue-and-gold curtain, similar to the one used by the vaudeville troupe, descended behind him, apparently catching him by surprise. Vaudeville Authenticity at the Metropolitan Opera 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z But if there was ever a self-own, it’s right there in that title: president as vaudeville performer, journalist as rapt audience. Perspective | Trump has played the media like a puppet. We’re getting better — but history will not judge us kindly. 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z She is all but absent from one chapter about the history of blues and minstrel singing, but we learn more than we could ever want to know about vaudeville stars Eva Tanguay and Sophie Tucker. ‘Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth’ by John Szwed 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The director, Wayne Cilento, an original cast member, wants to show Fosse’s range — his vaudeville roots, his humor, his fluidity, his wit. Forget About Jazz Hands, This Fosse Show Is About Dancin’ 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Whereas the Cabaret Convention turns Rose Hall into an expanded nightclub, the Broadway Cabaret Festival events are high-powered variety shows with vaudeville roots. Critic?s Notebook: Cabaret Love Is Busting Out All Over (but Not on TV) 2010-09-30T21:11:00Z For another thing, the music — African-American music — was not being used for a vaudeville show, but was employed in the highest of musical arts: opera. Op-Ed Columnist: In ?Porgy and Bess,? Variations on an Explosive Theme 2012-01-22T04:49:04Z Ms. Hopkins incorporates this sensibility into her own original vaudeville of mourning. | 'The Truth: A Tragedy': Cynthia Hopkins Excavates Her Father?s Life 2010-05-14T04:08:00Z By the time Wong died on February 3, 1961, she had left a legacy of more than 50 films, numerous Broadway and vaudeville shows, and a television series. After Hollywood thwarted Anna May Wong, the actress took matters into her own hands 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z Across another is the Imperial Theater, a 1913 vaudeville house where Harry Houdini once performed, and which has been restored to its former movie-palace splendor. In Saint John in Canada, Exploring the Legacy of the Loyalists 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Recently, Mr. Chaignaud spoke from Strasbourg, France, where he was on tour, about the work’s inspirations, including its vaudeville connection and his imposing wardrobe. He Sings. He Dances. He Creates a Sense of the Otherworldly. 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The Rose, a century-old former vaudeville house and local treasure, anchors the festival downtown; up a flight of stairs and over a few blocks is the big screen at the Uptown. Preview: Port Townsend Film Festival 2011-09-14T22:03:06Z What makes Mr. Foreman’s work so entertaining is his ability to turn these classic, head-scratching concerns into phantasmagorical vaudevilles in which all the world’s a stage that keeps changing shape on you. Theater Review: Richard Foreman’s ‘Old-Fashioned Prostitutes’ 2013-05-08T02:00:01Z The flavor is Monty Python meets vaudeville, ragged and thrown together in a spirit similar to fan-created homages like Potter Puppet Pals and “A Very Potter Musical.” Theater Review: ‘Potted Potter,’ a Parody, at the Little Shubert Theater 2012-06-04T22:27:31Z In vaudeville the stooge’s traditional role was to give the comic something to work off of, a straight line or a bit of business. Movie Review: ?The Three Stooges,? From Peter and Bobby Farrelly 2012-04-12T18:27:53Z The brothers turned it into a large-scale spectacle, first by adding colorful introductions and vaudeville acts and later by drumming up international publicity, driven in part by a rivalry between Japanese and American eaters. The Aspiring Writer Who Became an Eating-Contest Emcee 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z At the age of 6, she began touring the country as the precocious drummer of her parents’ Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, a vaudeville pop band. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for April 17-22 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z It’s a miniature performance with all the trappings of an old Broadway song-and-dance production like “Chicago”: vaudeville numbers, infidelity, intrigue. Panic! at the Disco’s Flourishes Weren’t Just Dramatic. They Were Theater. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z The show “breathes life into the well-worn story, even if it does so with gags as old as vaudeville and Dust Bowl melodies,” a critic for The Boston Globe wrote in December. Reimagined 'Robin Hood' To Land on Broadway 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Buried in its hour and three-quarters of sketches, jokes, songs and vaudeville routines — along with one killing and a couple of wars — a smart, funny 60-minute musical is dying to get out. Theater Review: ‘Timmy the Great,’ Family Musical, at Theater for the New City 2013-08-21T22:15:47Z Mr. Storch left high school during the Depression when he found that he could make a few dollars doing impressions in the city’s clubs and acting as M.C. for vaudeville shows. Larry Storch, Comic Actor Best Known for ‘F Troop,’ Dies at 99 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z It’s closer to vaudeville, of the most sumptuous, acerbic sort. Randy Newman's Faust: The Devil Laughs and Cries 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z And have we got some high-voltage vaudeville for you, the kind that curls your hair and turns your knees to rubber. | 'Diary of a Madman': Send in the Russian Clown and His Pain and Alienation, Too 2011-02-18T00:36:24Z On an entertaining recording called “If It Wasn’t for the Irish and the Jews,” Mr. Moloney highlighted vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley collaborations between those two groups of immigrants in America. Mick Moloney, Musician and Champion of Irish Culture, Dies at 77 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Gagnidze appears before a bright blue curtain with gold stars evocative of vaudeville days, microphone in hand. Review: At Met Opera, ‘Pagliacci’ Goes Vaudeville as ‘Cavalleria’ Turns 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Such a dichotomous nature proves handy in the consideration of Beckett, whose creative lineage embraces not only the literary convolutions of his onetime employer James Joyce but also the pratfalls of vaudeville. Review: Wrestling With a Master in ‘On Beckett’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The music revisits some of her favorite devices: a slowly pulsing beat, a skulking bass line, a vaudeville bounce to the chords, a switch between whispery singing and deadpan rapping with a dismissive chuckle. Billie Eilish’s Kiss-Off, and 14 More New Songs 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Modeled after vaudeville variety shows, the three-day event will blend music, comedy and circus acts. Brilliant Corners festival features John Cale, Conor Oberst and Bobby Womack 2012-06-26T14:48:00Z During the sassy chorus that ends the first scene, Ms. Kim led the courtiers in a vaudeville routine, complete with shuffling dance steps. Music Review: ‘Un Ballo in Maschera’ at Metropolitan Opera 2012-11-09T21:13:05Z He’s an easeful, exciting performer with a flash of vaudeville theatricality. Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago Welcomes a Polyglot of Styles 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z The song begins with a tremolo piano that suggests the beginning of a vaudeville act. France’s Pansexual Pop Queen Arrives 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z It’s vaudeville just shy of burlesque, zipping into a lively Charleston-slapstick air as they dance the “Hot Honey Rag” finale that climaxes in cartwheels. The killer-dillers of ‘Chicago’ have been slaying audiences for decades 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Its first half performs an erudite vaudeville routine, in prose so unrelentingly pregnant that it ends up effete. Final Demands by Frederic Raphael 2010-04-17T23:10:00Z Years later, with vaudeville on the decline, Rose Louise would find stardom with the Minsky Brother's Republic Theater in New York as burlesque queen Gypsy Rose Lee. 'American Rose': Baring the dark side of the dazzling life of Gypsy Rose Lee 2011-01-27T20:59:06Z She will add chapters or “discover” lost works — for instance, “archival” footage of Antinova’s late, desperate years on the vaudeville stage. Art Review: Eleanor Antin’s Selves at Columbia University 2013-09-05T21:49:22Z “So this has a vaudeville structure. That’s the easiest way to put it. It’s derived from a deep affection for silent movie and early talkie culture.” After “The Jacksonian,” Beth Henley recharges with slapstick “Laugh” 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z While Lenin and Hitler were plotting to exterminate their enemies, their neighbours were putting on vaudeville acts that hurt only people’s sense of decency. Breaking out 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z It was easy to forget that for decades Hope was the kinetic king of comedy who conquered every form of entertainment in his path, including vaudeville, Broadway, radio, movies and TV. Bob Hope gets little thanks for all the memories 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z Bob, an only child, also gravitated to the radio, listening to vaudeville stars such as Ed Wynn. Bob Elliott, one half of a crack team of pop-culture satirists, dies at 92 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z A charismatic high-kicker, she was featured in the vaudeville act "Dainty June and Her Newsboys." Actress June Havoc dies at 97 2010-03-30T02:37:00Z Tragedy and comedy shared the same stage in the poems he was writing — as they do in puppet shows and slapstick vaudeville routines. Review | Charles Simic reflects on what set James Tate’s late poetry apart 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Later she toured with the vaudeville dance troupe the Whitman Sisters, a job that took her to Los Angeles and the movies. Jeni LeGon, Singer and Solo Tap-Dancer, Dies at 96 2012-12-17T03:55:09Z Such was the case with the 2012 world premiere of Anne Washburn’s “Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play,” a stunning apocalyptic vaudeville inspired by “The Simpsons” that baffled as many theatergoers as it enchanted. He built a ragtag theater into an American trendsetter. Now Woolly Mammoth’s founder is retiring. 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Hence his decision to turn that comedy into a vaudeville show, complete with a shaving-cream fight, pratfalls and garish costumes. Review: At Met Opera, ‘Pagliacci’ Goes Vaudeville as ‘Cavalleria’ Turns 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z He has a traveling spirit inspired in part by his father’s mother — a tumbler, fiddler and vaudeville performer — and, at age 18, Solivan moved to Alaska in a GMC pickup on a friend’s invitation. The bluegrass is now being served 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Napoleon recalled that it was hard for Marx to escape his vaudeville roots. Marty Napoleon, vivacious jazz pianist for Louis Armstrong, dies at 93 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z “I was like a vaudeville show,” he said. Does Harvey Guillén, of ‘What We Do in the Shadows,’ Look Familiar? 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Soundies are often referred to as music-video prototypes, which is true but doesn’t fully capture their hybrid charm and how they fuse vaudeville, theater, cinema and the era’s newest novelty, television. The Swinging, Jamming Musical Charms of 1940s Soundies 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z “Le Grand Macabre,” a vaudeville for the end of time, is set in motion when Death himself ascends from a tomb promising to annihilate the human race at the next tolling of the midnight bell. Music: New York Philharmonic Stages Ligeti?s ?Grand Macabre? 2010-05-21T19:40:00Z Yet “Cannabis!,” whose excellent performers include the hip-hop-jazz collective Soul Inscribed and members of the dance company Urban Bush Women, is indeed a vaudeville. ‘Cannabis!’ Review: Preaching to the Partaking Choir 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Which is why the vaudeville act on YouTube caught his eye. Moment of Friday: Comics artist Art Spiegelman is bananas for vaudeville 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Born into poverty in 1906, Baker became a chorus dancer in the jazzy vaudeville shows of the Harlem Renaissance before, at the age of 19, launching a career in Paris. The 10 best dancers 2010-07-31T23:04:00Z When vaudeville and variety were king, that was readily available. Teatro ZinZanni mixes things up under the Spiegeltent 2014-05-08T22:03:03Z “If she spends time on Trump,” he added, “it just becomes vaudeville.” WATCH: Bill O’Reilly says Donald Trump should “stop whining” 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z In cinema," says Kenny, "and even in vaudeville before cinema, what really played was the fat person who could perform physical feats that you didn’t think fat people could perform. Are comedians funnier when they're fat? 2011-09-23T16:24:00Z The Grand Illusion concludes its Bob Hope/Bing Crosby road-movie series with the 1946 comedy "Road to Utopia," in which the gents play vaudeville performers headed to Alaska in search of fortune. 'Road to Utopia' and 'Alien' play at Seattle's art-house theaters 2010-12-02T21:35:00Z Abdurraqib, a poet, cultural critic and essayist, uses the tales of Black performers to make powerful observations about race in America, gliding through music, television, film, minstrel shows and vaudeville. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Yes, it's an interesting artifact of American entertainment, but its time - like vaudeville and minstrel shows - has come and gone. The Last Act for the Ringling Circus 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z At one vaudeville engagement, he shared a bill with a water nymph, four performing seals and “The Eminent Girl Saxophonist.” Review | In ‘Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise,’ working-class Archie Leach becomes a Hollywood legend 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z McPherson was a pioneer in radio evangelism who incorporated vaudeville elements in her sermons, once taking the stage dressed as a motorcycle officer. Kathie Lee Gifford preaches about an evangelist 2012-10-19T12:27:10Z For him, the sentence is an act of pure performance – a tense high-wire act, a piece of grave and ambitious vaudeville performed with energy both comic and ironic. Edinburgh international book festival: writers' picks 2011-08-12T21:55:15Z In an interview with the Jewish Journal, Spiegelman described his act as "intellectual vaudeville." Moment of Friday: Comics artist Art Spiegelman is bananas for vaudeville 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z In the 1920s, she toured the vaudeville circuit with Annie Sullivan, swanning around in sequined dresses while demonstrating her accomplishments and cracking jokes about drink and politics. Review: Helen Keller’s Words and Seven Actors in ‘Three Days to See’ 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Playwright George M Cohan, whose family had toured in vaudeville, sent a flower arrangement. A circus tragedy lost to history 2011-05-02T21:49:00Z In the 1960s, Mr. Benson became known to television viewers through his appearances with Berle, another comedian from the vaudeville tradition. Irving Benson, comedy veteran of burlesque, dies at 102 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z What Ms. Stone and company are celebrating, you realize, is less the verbal bump-and-grind of vaudeville than the airy make-believe of theater as a whole. Two Sides of Sondheim in the Berkshires 2010-07-06T21:36:00Z Some of the latter were fitted with elaborate billboards, like the one on the right, promoting popular habits like vaudeville, cigarettes and chewing gum. The view from First Avenue and Virginia Street, circa 1910 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z To bring the story to life onstage, the creators turned to vaudeville, which was coming into its own at the time and place of Fievel’s adventures. Onstage in ‘An American Tail,’ a Family’s Jewishness Comes to the Fore 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Some of the jokes are straight out of vaudeville — a voice yells “Duck,” enter a duck. 5 Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z And "George M!" harks back to the days of variety and vaudeville, lively populist forms that became the bedrock of American mass entertainment. Cabaret and a salute to Cohan on Seattle stages 2011-06-02T20:22:05Z It's a comedy, like French vaudeville from the early 20th century – a little dirty, a little naughty. Glyndebourne's odd double 2012-08-09T19:00:12Z Musically, Ms. Ebersole is a freewheeling time traveler whose affection for operetta and vaudeville allows her to hopscotch merrily through the decades. Review: Christine Ebersole Has a Soundtrack for Starting New Chapters 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z In fact, Hope was still married to his first wife, who had been his vaudeville partner until November of that year. Bob Hope gets little thanks for all the memories 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z Its dutiful tour through Broadway-style pop, vaudeville and Irish influences is largely referential. Review: In ‘The Butcher Boy,’ an Anti-Coming of Age Story 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Scott, who never completed high school, worked as a theater usher and became a valet to a vaudeville dance team. Jimmy Scott, hard-luck singer with a haunting voice, dies at 88 After the vaudeville era died, her father worked as an assistant director on Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times." Gloria DeHaven, star of 1940s '50s films, dead at age 91 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z There, with Mr. Dixon and Lynda Segal, he wrote and performed in “Stewed Prunes,” a revue inspired by vaudeville and silent film comedy. Richard Libertini, Character Actor With a Memorable Turn in ‘The In-Laws’, Dies at 82 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Morris Dickstein, in his book “Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression,” notes, “The novel ends with Lem as a vaudeville clown being beaten nightly until he simply falls apart.” The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Mama Rose kept June in vaudeville until she was far beyond her baby cuteness. June Havoc, immortalized in `Gypsy,' dies at 97 2010-03-29T16:47:00Z In every way it evokes layers of classicism old and new, in which traditions deriving from ancient Greece and the Baroque are hugger-mugger with 20th-century jazziness and sly vaudeville fun. Dance Review: Wild and Tamed in Wheeldon?s ?Estancia? at City Ballet 2010-05-30T22:21:00Z Robbins, the director and choreographer of both musicals, conceived of “Gypsy” as a splashy “panorama of vaudeville and burlesque.” An Appraisal: Scrappy Papa of the Ultimate Stage Momma 2011-05-06T22:19:02Z Born in Chicago in 1954 to an orphaned mother and a father whose parents were vaudeville performers, Jones devotes most of “Last Chance Texaco” to her family history and pre-fame years. Review | Rickie Lee Jones offers a raw and roving account of her life in ‘Last Chance Texaco’ 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z “Including 55 serious operas, 6 cantatas, 53 comic operas, 17 operettas, 6 sing-spiele, 4 ballets, 4 vaudevilles, 2 oratorios, one each of fares, pastorales, masques, ballads and buffas.” Amy Beach, a Pioneering American Composer, Turns 150 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z The good old days award The boundary between vaudeville and standup started to blur. Our Fringe favourites 2010-08-24T21:15:00Z Contemporary presentations of Chekhov tend to err on the side of either slapstick or pathos, with acting that brings to mind a sweaty vaudeville turn or a Method-style roll in the deep. | 'Uncle Vanya': Chekhov?s Slugfest, With Pratfalls 2011-08-07T21:36:44Z All that drive is directed at her two daughters, whom Rose has working in vaudeville from their early childhood. London Theater Journal: A Scorching Momma Rose 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Abdurraqib reflects on Black performance in America through essays on television, music, film, minstrel shows and vaudeville. New in Paperback: ‘A Little Devil in America’ and ‘My Friend Anna’ 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z He was too self-consciously old school, too much a living link to vaudeville. James Franco's Oscars of apathy 2011-02-28T14:45:00Z This Saturday, it will close at 3:30 p.m. for a performance by the Grand Falloons: “Professor Winklebottom’s Earth Science Circus,” which uses vaudeville to teach children about ecology and conservation. Spare Times for Children for April 18-24 2014-04-17T23:14:54Z With nods to vaudeville and burlesque, there’s a lot going on here, including hip-hop’s body rolls and chest pops — and lots of attitude. ‘Hamilton’ choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler delivers a revolution that rocks 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z A Social Realist with satirical leanings, Marsh, who died in 1954, was fascinated not only by burlesque and vaudeville but also by other popular entertainment. Art Review: ‘Swing Time,’ Reginald Marsh Show, Focuses on ’30s New York 2013-07-04T17:36:22Z It hearkens back to when the deal-makers gathered in smoke-filled rooms long before Prohibition, talking vaudeville and the Klondike gold rush. Warm up at the Polar Bar, snug inside the Arctic Club | Happy hour 2012-11-29T02:40:45Z And both productions use a Brechtian framework of popular bygone theater forms: vaudeville for “Chicago” and the minstrel show for “Scottsboro Boys.” Theater Review | 'The Scottsboro Boys': Kander and Ebb Revisit an Infamous Case 2010-03-11T05:17:00Z The only star of early talkies with no prior experience in movies or on the legit or vaudeville stage, Crosby made acting look as natural as singing. Bing Christmas: 'Tis the Season to Be Crosby 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Even Citizen Kane, traditionally touted as the most cinematic film in cinematic history, pitches towards vaudeville the moment 25-year-old Orson Welles staggers on screen with his crinkly bald wig and snowy moustache. Time and motion pictures: from Boyhood to old age, Everyday 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z A portrait of the desperate life of the Russian lower-middle class, the opera was sardonic, nervy, and violent, veering constantly between satire and vaudeville and naturalism. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z This big biography of the silent-screen comedy titan follows him from his parents’ vaudeville act at the turn of the 20th century to his small part in “Beach Blanket Bingo” in the ’60s. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Because Mr. Hines is an entertainer in the vaudeville tradition, the show included no moments that might be called introspective or soul-searching. Music Review: Maurice Hines at 54 Below 2012-12-28T04:40:06Z Little Woody Linden, a vaudeville dummy, dreads the demise of his aged ventriloquist, Meyer Lemon. Review: Anxious Puppets and Other Dummies in ‘The Daisy Theater’ 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Along with these gifts, Laplante possessed a superb baritone voice and frequently performed sentimental songs on the vaudeville circuit. Review | The most shameless con artist of the Jazz Age knew that the biggest lies work best 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Three paintings of stacks and piles of hairy legs with boxy shoes suggest invasions, mass arrests, the Holocaust or a crowded vaudeville act, in a hurry and quite out of step. After the Storm, Philip Guston for Real 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z He and Magnani worked together in vaudeville in the 1940s, and seeing them interact, especially in a scene where they pretend to be slumming movie stars, is a treat. 'The Passionate Thief' as laugh-out-loud funny now as in 1960 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Side Show 3D Theatricals stages the musical based on the true story of conjoined twins and vaudeville entertainers Daisy and Violet Hilton. L.A. theater openings, April 19-26: 'Side Show' and more 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Last year, Everyman Theatre completed an $18 million relocation from its small Charles Street home to a smartly renovated vaudeville house near the Hippodrome. Chesapeake Shakespeare among troupes banking on Baltimore For “Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party” is as much as an odd couple culinary vaudeville act at as it is an image makeover for both the rap mogul and the domesticity empress. The weird high magic of “Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party” 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z The satirical conservative TV pundit even takes a swing with the trademark golf club that Hope liked to use as a vaudeville cane. US library pokes fun at politics with Bob Hope 2010-06-11T23:31:00Z Studios ransacked vaudeville for any act that could make an impact in a 10-min. short.
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2010-12-24T14:10:00Z Oakland Highball is metal vaudeville or acoustic thrash. New band of the day: Kiran Leonard (No 1,520) 2013-05-28T16:55:00Z Mr. Engel’s show, which includes physical comedy, vaudeville and magic, takes place in the perfect setting for walking the plank: on board the Waterfront Museum & Showboat Barge, a historic vessel turned museum. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 3-9 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z As vaudeville theaters began to close in the 1950s, Mr. Benson moved to Las Vegas, where he lived for 35 years. Irving Benson, comedy veteran of burlesque, dies at 102 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z He set “The Pale King” in Peoria, the figurative perfect middle of the country since vaudeville days. David Foster Wallace’s Peaceful Prairie 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z For 30 years, he was part of a comedy duo with straight man Jack Mann, appearing all over the country, including at New York’s Palace Theater, the pinnacle for vaudeville entertainers. Irving Benson, comedy veteran of burlesque, dies at 102 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Among his many side projects, he leased the Sunshine Theater, a former vaudeville house on Houston Street, with plans to open it as performance space and stream live shows there over SonicNet. Up Close: Tim Nye, Gallery Owner, Finds Art After the Internet 2010-08-04T17:38:00Z Alas, he soon finds himself unexpectedly and wrongly arrested — by policemen who cross-talk like Pat-and-Mike vaudeville comedians — and then sentenced to death. Review | The perfect book for St. Patrick’s Day 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z But this time the vibe is perkier, and the seeming grab bag of clever vaudeville sketches gels into a message of community action. Happy Feet Two: Mr. Miller's Poppy Penguins Save Their Own Planet 2011-11-17T21:05:35Z His parents, a retired vaudeville duo, were impossible to please, and Milton believed they preferred his “perfect” older brother. Is Richard Simmons missing? Or is he just dearly missed? 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z I was an avid reader as a child, since I traveled so much for my work touring in vaudeville. Edelweiss, Edelweiss? Julie Andrews Loves Reading About 18th-Century Plant Hunters 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z The facade rose to a great mural, perhaps 10 feet high and 80 feet long, of multicolored figures in costume representing the history of vaudeville, the work of the Paris-trained classicist William de Leftwich Dodge. | West 46th Street: West 46th Street/Streetscapes - Mementos of a Lost Battle 2011-10-09T05:48:09Z In tracing the evolution of vaudeville into burlesque, Ms. Abbott has a great trove of material at her disposal. Books of The Times: A Life Built on Illusion: More Tease Than Strip 2010-12-19T23:12:36Z As a child growing up in Nashville, Mr. Grooms found inspiration in the old weird America of the 1930s and ’40s, when he caught traveling carnivals and vaudeville acts. Art Is Fleeting, but Red Grooms Is Forever 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z He cast his spell using old-fashioned vaudeville techniques that he must have inherited. Is Richard Simmons missing? Or is he just dearly missed? 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z At the same time, “she has a very spicy sense of humor,” Moreno says “She and Emilio are like a vaudeville act. She makes fun of his pronounced accent.” Gloria Estefan left Cuba as a young child, but the island defines her, and her music 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z He performed his “record act” solo between features at movie theaters in northern New Jersey, and soon moved on to burlesque and vaudeville. Jerry Lewis, Mercurial Comedian and Filmmaker, Dies at 91 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z In “The Troupe,” young George runs away to join the Silenus troupe of vaudeville performers to find the man he thinks is his father. Review | Clowns are creepy. Let's talk about horror, science-fiction and fantasy books that make the most of circus settings. 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z High contrast, mostly black-and-white and often eerie, the pictures evoke Surrealist reveries, Victorian seances and vaudeville magic shows. In the galleries: Reclaiming cultural identity 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z All three studied singers at the vaudeville house near their father's restaurant. Patty Andrews of Andrews sisters dead at 94 2013-01-30T22:50:10Z In it she channels Aida Overton Walker, a popular African-American vaudeville performer who was known as the “queen of the cakewalk.” 2 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z His parents, Joe Yule Sr. and Nell, had a vaudeville act and Joe Jr., as he was known then, was not yet 2 when he became a part of it, appearing in a miniature tuxedo. Mickey Rooney, versatile actor and master showman, dies at 93 2014-04-07T21:03:24Z The 48-year-old Grant even reminds us of his vaudeville upbringing by turning a spectacular cartwheel. Monkey Business ? it's an ace ape jape 2011-02-17T11:23:36Z In keeping with the simplicity of the story, they are pleasurable, straight-ahead, often-comic tunes, like vaudeville songs interspersed among comedy acts. Stephen Sondheim, experimenter. Listen to 'Pacific Overtures' and 'Forum' 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z The early 20th century history of American vaudeville and American burlesque, its black-sheep cousin, is practically a mirage now. Movie musicals deserving of remakes 2014-03-21T17:59:05Z Her mother, persuaded that vaudeville was returning, pushed her to develop a nightclub act rather than finish high school. Marta Becket, Dancer in the Desert, Dies at 92 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Ely studied classical piano as a child, and joined a vaudeville group called the Young Oregonians when he was eleven years old. Is This the Dirtiest Song of the Sixties? 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z The comic bits seemed almost surreal, like the scene when the preening courtiers break into a vaudeville dance, complete with kicks and caps. Review: James Levine Conducts a Noirish Verdi at the Metropolitan Opera 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z I’ve heard my mom describe going to clubs in Harlem and this kind of transition from vaudeville to performers doing these very bold comic dancing routines. For Glenn Ligon, Home Is Where History and Friends Are Inspirations 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Shiner and his team quickly and heavily reworked the show, focusing on Schmelky, his troupe of clowns and the vaudeville acts rather than the more traditional musical numbers. When Cirque du Soleil Met Theater: ?Shpeel? Failure 2010-06-26T00:27:00Z After the Olympics, she capitalized on her fame by doing everything from a brief stint in vaudeville to playing on the bearded House of David men's baseball team that toured the nation. 'Wonder Girl': the multifaceted sporting life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias 2011-07-20T20:43:03Z Rodgers, whose timing was sometimes unreliable, valued Bryant's ability to keep his music well ordered, and co-opted him for some of his vaudeville appearances that summer. Slim Bryant obituary 2010-07-27T17:32:00Z Mr. Richmond loves vaudeville, and he wanted the excitement of those kinds of performances. Bowie and a Flooded Amusement Park: What Inspired ‘Ride the Cyclone’ 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z In his 2006 video The White and Black Minstrel Show, he appears as a 'whited-up' clown, a cipher of cultural cluelessness that inverts the grim racial caricatures of 19th century American vaudeville acts. Artist of the week 107: David Blandy 2010-09-29T15:01:00Z “We didn’t start out in these kind of salubrious palaces of vaudeville fun,” he said. Elvis Costello at the Beacon: Misery and Splendor 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z For several years after her film career faded, Baby Peggy performed on a grueling vaudeville circuit to support her parents in the style to which they had become accustomed. Diana Serra Cary, Child Star ‘Baby Peggy’ of Silent Films, Dies at 101 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z For “Side Show,” he wanted the twins’ costumes to capture the height of the vaudeville era. like a romanticized dreamscape of the 1930s, complete with stunning, sparkling floor-length evening gowns. For Kennedy Center’s ‘Side Show,’ two troupers are joined at the hip Ms. Moore transformed and tamed the vaudeville style that had dominated sitcoms, perfecting a comic housewifely hysteria in Laura, made visible in the way she often appeared to be fighting back tears. Mary Tyler Moore, Who Incarnated the Modern Woman on TV, Dies at 80 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Hope, whose career in vaudeville, radio, film and television spanned six decades, died at age 100 in 2003. Comedian Bob Hope's furniture, memorabilia to be sold at auction 2013-08-06T20:53:19Z Davis’s prolific career began when he was a toddler performing vaudeville with his father and uncle. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘At Home With Amy Sedaris’ and ‘The Breaker Upperers’ 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Riley performs the great service of giving us the history before the history, of Fred and Adele, the biggest vaudeville and musical theater stars of their time. ‘The Astaires,’ by Kathleen Riley 2012-06-01T22:36:06Z "It's the story of a mayoral election in a small Southern town, but — how can I describe it? It's black vaudeville meets operetta meets Southern folkloric humor meets Ziegfeld Follies." How 'Shuffle Along' director George C. Wolfe brought back the 1921 show that changed Broadway forever 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Charlie Chaplin came up from the vaudeville stage, through the silent era of movies, and, fitfully, into the brave new world of talkies. Pete Davidson’s Congressional Visitor and Earnest Address on “Saturday Night Live” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z One joyful image recreates a very New York moment: a spontaneous show put on by vaudeville performers inside the hall after a major snowstorm stranded them and other travelers in 1914. Let There Be Light, and Art, in the Moynihan Train Hall 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Variety was founded in 1905 in New York as a weekly publication covering the vaudeville circuit and in 1933 spawned Daily Variety in Hollywood, where it grew into the entertainment industry's leading paper of record. Showbiz magazine Daily Variety goes out of print after 80 years 2013-03-20T00:41:03Z Our contemporary understanding of slapstick began in the vaudeville era of the late 19th century. A Brief History of Slapstick Humor 2010-10-18T08:00:00Z For the first time, everyone in the industry is beginning to entertain the queasy thought: what if our cinema industry is like vaudeville? Time to try harder – James Bond has no licence to kill the film industry | Peter Bradshaw 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z Yet the piece, with several false endings, loses its grip after the first 30 minutes, and “Huang Yi & Kuka” becomes little more than a series of sluggish vaudeville acts. Review: ‘Huang Yi & Kuka,’ a Pas de Deux Between Human and Machine 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The gently appealing Mr. Fischer plays Dottie, a lonely-hearts columnist, whose letters from readers offer punctuation between the production numbers, light parodies of rap, Weimar cabaret and vaudeville, among many other idioms. Theater Review: ‘Til Divorce Do Us Part,’ a Musical Based on Real Life 2014-02-20T23:44:04Z "His great great uncle was an old vaudeville singer, Harry Sidney – so he's like our little piece of the British Empire on two legs." Turbonegro: 'We thought people would start throwing bottles at us' 2012-07-21T23:05:11Z But not every character cries out for development; the point of vaudeville is to play an endless series of comic variations on an unchanging, predictable personality. ‘Killing Eve’ Review: The End of the Road 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Growing up, Mr. Phoenix spent time busking with his brothers and sisters in Los Angeles; vaudeville is in his body’s history, too. This Joker’s a Dancer, Too 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Born in Brooklyn, he began his career aged 18 months in his parents' vaudeville act, Yule and Carter, and continued filming right to the end. Hollywood great Rooney dies at 93 2014-04-07T10:18:13Z Never a champion of his vaudeville tendencies, she now wanted him to show off his narrative talents. The night Mark Twain brought Huck Finn alive 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z It’s an ersatz vaudeville sketch about the last four performers on earth, and it’s satire without bite, the fuzzy concept just getting in the way of some expert dancing. Review: A ‘Nutcracker’ Taps and Swings 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z As their skills developed, they moved from amateur shows to vaudeville and singing with bands. Patty Andrews of Andrews sisters dead at 94 2013-01-30T22:50:10Z As bouncy as vaudeville, “Orange” veered away from the antihero solemnity of many cable shows, but it shared those series’ air of authority and, especially, their willingness to be rude. Emily Nussbaum: “Orange Is the New Black” and “Louie” Reviews 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Soon, it drew the burlesque and vaudeville actors who felt shunned by New York’s more elite Players and Lambs clubs. Friars Club Director Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Rooney started his career in his parents' vaudeville act while still a toddler, and broke into movies before age 10. Legendary film and TV star Mickey Rooney dead at 93 2014-04-07T05:38:50Z Just in time for panto season, here's artist David Austen's first feature-length film, End Of Love, a post-apocalyptic vaudeville number recalling cinema's early days. This week's new exhibitions 2010-12-18T00:08:35Z Guitarist Pee Wee Crayton and vaudeville blues entertainer Ida Cox also will be inducted. Franklin, Basie among new inductees to Blues Hall of Fame 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z “Smile, Baby!” she bellowed as she got her cue and stalked toward the action, for she was Rose and this was “Gypsy,” the 1959 musical set among showbiz nomads in the hectic days of vaudeville. The Time I Saw Angela Lansbury Instead of the Horse Show 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Nita Krebs, who danced in the Lullaby League, sometimes cried in her dressing room after performances, fearful that vaudeville audiences saw her as a “cute little thing” and not an artist. “The Wizard of Oz,” the Last Munchkin, and the Little People Left Behind 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z That’s because he was a pro, who had learned to land soft and withstand a few knocks from his childhood in vaudeville, playing The Little Boy Who Can’t Be Damaged in a family act. The silent-era film stars who risked life and limb doing their own film stunts 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z But here he is, in one of the 60 short films that make up “Vitaphone Varieties,” a fascinating new four-disc set from the Warner Archive Collection, as a vaudeville star in 1928. Video: All Talking, All Singing, All but Forgotten 2011-05-06T21:13:01Z Training the performers, most of whom are not dancers, took time — the routine combines elements of vaudeville, tap and percussion. 5 Tony-Nominated Broadway Shows, 5 Stagecraft Secrets 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z The 85-year-old actor didn't need to pencil in wrinkles before the curtain went up Wednesday at a renovated vaudeville theater bearing the humorist's real name, Samuel L. Clemens. Holbrook performs in Mark Twain's beloved NY town 2010-04-22T01:08:00Z Back then his vaudeville routine at the Sanitary Cafe — which often included stealing slugs of beer from customers and taking drags off cigarettes poached from ashtrays — earned him a different nickname: “Stinkball.” Why is Lindsey Graham acting like this? 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z That ability came from Sellers' experience of vaudeville, says Rush – if you're playing to 500 people you need to come on and make a splash. Geoffrey Rush: 'Art doesn’t do well in the dark. But that’s where we’ve put it' 2013-07-15T05:13:00Z “He was able to combine high culture and the low culture of vaudeville in the blender of his mind and television.” That Kovacs Touch: Comedy?s Lunatic Fringe 2011-05-06T23:24:49Z He was a star in vaudeville, a featured player on Broadway, a top film box-office draw for decades. Book review: ‘Hope’ by Richard Zoglin They added comedy shorts and cartoons, star appearances, vaudeville shows, giveaways and marketing tie-ins with local businesses — all of which they highlighted in advertisements. Review | A rare look at 60 years of newspaper advertising for motion pictures 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z The Shuberts’ modest, early efforts were in vaudeville, but by 1929, the Shubert Organization comprised a network of theaters across New York City, including the Imperial Theatre and the Winter Garden. ‘Razzle Dazzle’ review: Michael Riedel pulls back the curtain on for Broadway 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Expect “Baby Love,” “Stop! In the Name of Love,” “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” and a parade of other singalong-worthy hits at the grand reopening of Kings Theater, a once-glorious, newly restored vaudeville theater. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Jan. 30-Feb. 5 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z His eye also fell on old vaudeville performers. Looking at the Field: Remembering James Stevenson 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z “Funny Papers,” from 1994, is much more straightforwardly silly, a suite of vaudeville sketches inspired by newspaper comics and set to novelty tunes. Dance Review: Taylor 2 Gives a Paul Taylor Sampler at Pace - Review 2012-01-09T22:57:32Z A vaudeville show in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1956, where the audience raved, has been identified as a turning point in Aznavour’s public favor. Remembering Charles Aznavour, the Last and Greatest Troubadour 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z It reminded me of the “Loveland” sequence from Sondheim’s “Follies,” in which kitschy vaudeville numbers reveal the characters’ unravelling sanity. The Top Ten Showstoppers of 2015 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z These strips have with the kind of raw energy that pulsed in vaudeville, the pulps and the early days of film. ArtsBeat: Sunday Morning Mayhem 2013-12-27T16:22:46Z The pairing of the tall, slight Kushner and his stockier, squatter companion put me in mind of a vaudeville act. The Surreal, Eternal Silence of Jared Kushner 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z At a first view some episodes of “Antic Meet” are more likely to recall the silent comedy of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton or to suggest vaudeville. Dance Review: A Long-Absent Comedy Leaps Out for a Farewell 2011-03-06T20:22:36Z They were snapshots of life on the fringes, where she herself had dwelled: Bowery bars, vaudeville stages and carnivals, filled with gangsters, boxers and drunks. Mae West Vamped and Winked. She Also Blazed a Trail We’re Still Following. 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Her second daughter, June, was cute and outgoing, and at 18 months she was dancing in vaudeville and appearing in movie comedy shorts. June Havoc, immortalized in `Gypsy,' dies at 97 2010-03-29T16:47:00Z Some call that milieu "underground variety" — a loosely connected web that takes in vaudeville, circus arts, trapeze, cabaret, sideshows, burlesque, alternative music, clowning, juggling and elaborate physical comedy. Variety performers seek solace together after Cafe Racer shooting 2012-06-04T02:00:07Z The vaudeville roots are deep, though, as Vladimir and Estragon swap one-liners and physical shtick. A rock. A road. A tree. How set designers for 20th century’s most famous play change it up. 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z It focuses on the archetypal stage mother, Mama Rose, who ferociously pushes her daughter "Baby June" into vaudeville stardom at age 6 while her older sister struggles to compete. June Havoc, immortalized in `Gypsy,' dies at 97 2010-03-29T16:47:00Z Mr. Close’s experiments were grounded in slapstick farce, lowbrow vaudeville corn and controlled spontaneity. Film: Adam McKay Directs Cops Under Arrested Adolescence 2010-08-01T01:53:00Z A "Huckleberry Finn life" in New South Wales followed for a child star who was once described as "the Jackie Coogan of Australian vaudeville". Australian actor Bill Kerr dies 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z A century ago, downtown Los Angeles was the center of the city’s entertainment, with movie and vaudeville theaters seemingly on every block. In Downtown Los Angeles, the Return of the Movie Palace 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z When it was new, “Die Zauberflöte,” however sublime its arias and choruses, would have been seen, like other singspiels, as a combination of carnival and vaudeville, an essentially popular entertainment. This Conductor’s Mozart Isn’t for the Faint of Ear 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Born in Cape Town in June 1922, he was raised in Australia and became a radio and vaudeville star before moving to the UK in 1947 to further his career. Australian actor Bill Kerr dies 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z In the 1890s, he said, people heard it in vaudeville houses or just walking around town. Max Morath, Pianist Who Staged a One-Man Ragtime Revival, Dies at 96 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z It’s a lurching bolero that dovetails lo-fi nostalgia with vaudeville horns and an electronically skewed sense of space. Best Songs of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z An accomplished pianist and decent crooner, he made even the vaudeville larkiness of National Express seem commanding. The Divine Comedy ? review 2011-07-27T17:48:00Z SAT-MON Retelling of the Pied Piper legend, using vaudeville and slapstick, not for children, 2 and 8 p.m. Community calendar 2011-11-10T00:20:05Z A sweet scene in the movie shows recording engineers trying to get her to contain her delivery, which was honed on vaudeville stages, so that her voice could be picked up by their primitive equipment. Review: ‘Bessie,’ on HBO, Stars Queen Latifah as Blues Singer 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z One Reel was part of a hippie revival of the vaudeville arts in the West, along with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the Flying Karamazov Brothers, the Pickle Family Circus and the Oregon Country Fair. Variety performers seek solace together after Cafe Racer shooting 2012-06-04T02:00:07Z Opened as a movie and vaudeville theater in 1926, the Capitol was designed by Thomas W. Lamb. Capitol Theater in Port Chester, N.Y., to Reopen 2012-08-05T22:19:00Z Roxie never stopped dreaming, and it didn’t matter if she was just hanging around in bars, she was going to turn that whole world into her own vaudeville. ‘Chicago’ Pops the Cork on 25 Years of Razzle Dazzle 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The solution was to bring in a versatile, high-profile producer, and take even more risks in breaking down the barriers between traditional music and jazz, vaudeville and any other big-band styles that took their fancy. Bellowhead: Hedonism 2010-09-30T22:15:00Z Broadway musicals are as popular as ever, but much of the grit and seediness has been washed clean, and the area is now more akin to a family-friendly theme park than a bawdy vaudeville enclave. ‘Razzle Dazzle’ review: Michael Riedel pulls back the curtain on for Broadway 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Such as: “She was as dead as vaudeville.” S.J. Perelman was a master of comedy. Nearly a century later, his work still delivers laughs. 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z In 1980, the Dead played 15 sold-out shows at the Warfield Theatre, a downtown facility that dates to the 1920s vaudeville age. In the Bay Area, the Grateful Dead will live — and twirl — forever 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z She went high-stepping through them all like a vaudeville trouper, complete with black-and-white saddle shoes to show off footwork ready for Broadway. Music Review: Anxiety Wrapped in Gleaming Pop and Lam? 2010-09-19T22:31:00Z The voices and evocations were Vegas and vaudeville. ‘The Little Mermaid’ Review: The Renovations Are Only Skin Deep 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z A flexible band playing musical arrangements by Charles Floyd negotiated the stylistic leaps from vaudeville to folk to rock with impressive agility. James Taylor?s Singular Voice, Steeped in 120 Years of Music 2011-04-13T07:58:57Z After the war, Smith worked as a staff musician in Portland's NBC studios, as a vaudeville theatre pit-band musician, and as a jazz player in local clubs. Johnny Smith obituary 2013-06-16T16:24:34Z If you choose the latter, you become like Bette Davis in “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?,” doing your vaudeville act for anyone who bother to remember who you are. “I blamed Adam Sandler for ruining my life” 2014-03-21T17:08:00Z And many generations have passed since he and Bing Crosby went on the road to anywhere, wisecracking and winking their way through adolescent capers like the vaudeville veterans they were. Exhibition Review: ?Hope for America? at the Library of Congress 2010-06-11T22:47:00Z The show pays tribute to almost 150 years of culture and politics — from the racist themes of 19th-century American vaudeville to the activism of leaders like Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington. At the Quai Branly, ‘Each Exhibition We Do Is a Book Telling a Story’ 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The famous vaudeville duo of Bert Williams and George Walker entertained the swells at the gala benefit for the new uptown Knickerbocker Hospital. 'The Knick' Recap: A Dazzling Shot, and Other Developments 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z Sometimes that desperate pace is a winning part of the plotless vaudeville comedy Ms. Tharp sets onstage. Review: ‘Twyla Tharp and Three Dances’ Lends a Look of Sensuous Improvisation 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Per the Discography of American Historical Recordings, an online database, the song was composed by a goofball vaudeville performer named James Thornton, who typically traded in novelty songs. Song of Summer: “When Summer Comes Again,” by the Lewis Brothers 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z The Calgary Stampede, which turns 100 this July, began as a rip-off of Buffalo Bill’s rodeo vaudevilles. T Magazine: Where Canada Goes Country 2012-05-11T14:00:09Z His path to becoming a vaudeville consultant was a twisty one. Vaudeville Authenticity at the Metropolitan Opera 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z This vaudeville of film history is the year's moviest movie A Sleeper rises from his bed and, accompanied by his large dog, walks to a door and turns the lock. Holy Motors: Leos Carax Flirts with a Cinematic Masterpiece 2012-10-19T15:07:14Z Rejecting vaudeville stereotypes and racist conventions like blackface, Rogers transitioned from a musical double act into a politically wry solo performer, making him a founding father of stand-up. On Keegan-Michael Key’s Podcast, a Provocative Case for Sketch Comedy 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z For this group, formed in 2006 and known for its blend of circus, vaudeville, burlesque, dance, ballet, opera and live music, the story has been reimagined into an erotic, mainly all-male production. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z The organization plans to consolidate all of its visual art, performance and media activities into a renovated former vaudeville theater in Downtown Brooklyn next year. Weekend Miser: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Deconstructed at MoMA PS1 2012-12-13T19:53:03Z Ms. Drescher’s comedy, on the other hand, is so light that it’s like a vaudeville routine. Television Review : Life With a Gay Ex-Husband. It Happens. 2011-06-14T22:30:15Z She cut her performing teeth in her native England, appearing in concerts and vaudeville and on radio programs, becoming widely renowned for a unique voice that spanned four octaves. Julie Andrews to be honored in L.A. 2011-05-02T06:06:56Z The stripped-down vaudeville accompaniments don't help a feeling of furrows already ploughed. Marc Almond: Variet? 2010-06-03T22:00:00Z He got his start on vaudeville, worked on radio, acted in movies where he was perhaps best known for his road films with Bing Crosby, and in later years appeared in numerous TV specials. Bob Hope's wife Dolores dies at age 102 2011-09-19T21:26:13Z After squeezing out every drop of modern vaudeville wisdom from her brilliant career for the role, she has earned the right to enjoy this victory lap on her own terms. Critic's analysis: Tonys spread the love in a year of innovation and risk-taking on Broadway 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Yet moments like its finale, with Garland and Gene Kelly pinging off each other to Cole Porter’s Be a Clown, are pure, exhilarating vaudeville that you wouldn’t trade for anything. Streaming: where to find Judy Garland films online 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z This Rose knows — and has borrowed liberally from — the vaudeville, songs and movies of her day. London Theater Journal: A Scorching Momma Rose 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Upstairs, a group of works from 1974 to ’76 show Morton taking on bright color and pushing painting toward a kind of sculptural vaudeville. Art in Review: REE MORTON: ?Selected Works, 1968-1973? 2011-02-24T21:15:13Z Political folkie, country farmer, travelling gypsy, born-again Christian, rustic dandy—Dylan has cycled through a series of musical characters as if playing all the parts in a one-man vaudeville act. Bob Dylan, Fanboy 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z She left in her third year to play piano with a touring vaudeville act — to the chagrin of her parents, who she said were “horrified,” and a professor who called popular music “rubbish.” Jazz Legend Marian McPartland Dies at 95 2013-08-21T09:22:12Z This show was nothing more than a 1920s vaudeville revue set in the 1980s. Review: Does ‘Cats’ Have Nine Lives on Broadway? Two, Certainly 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z And so, in what amounts to a philosophical vaudeville performed by Gary and Janice, we get sketches depicting the savagery of elites, the pettiness of proles, the foolishness of dreamers. Review: Taylor Mac’s ‘Gary’ Finds Hope and Humor on a Pile of Corpses 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Fleeing both from villains and law enforcement, who suspect him in a murder, Hannay survives skulduggery in a vaudeville theater, a chase atop a speeding train and other cloak-and-dagger stuff. Review | Constellation’s ‘39 Steps’ is a comic thriller without thrills 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Neighborhood theaters and vaudeville houses were scattered through the city. ‘Gotham Refuses to Get Scared’: In 1918, Theaters Stayed Open 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z In that guise, she has sung a vaudeville tune about a cat outside in the heat. Getting down-and-dirty to help stage artists who are down and out 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z It all adds up to old-fashioned vaudeville, which the group known as the Grand Falloons offers for the entertainment — and often even the education — of children. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z A hybrid comedy-drama, “The Life” was jazzy and jaunty, with a touch of vaudeville and the blues. Comedy Undercut ‘The Life.’ Billy Porter Looks for Its Humanity. 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z “We were all sitting around the table and he was regaling us with stories about vaudeville,” she said. Still talking, with Carol Burnett 2014-04-23T21:16:30Z It was a punk-rock group with prog-rock skills, the rhythmic precision of an old-fashioned soul band and a feverish stage presence that was equal parts punk, vaudeville and revival tent. ?Everyday Sunshine? Celebrates Ska-Punk Rockers Fishbone 2011-10-02T02:45:06Z They commemorate the lives of freed slaves, sorority members and celebrities, including the author Alice Walker and the vaudeville star Flournoy Miller. Antiques: Saving Scrapbooks From the Scrapheap 2011-08-04T21:59:48Z That same year he starred with Ann Miller in a revue called "Sugar Babies," a hokey mixture of vaudeville and burlesque. Legendary film and TV star Mickey Rooney dead at 93 2014-04-07T05:38:50Z McCay toured the vaudeville circuit with his films, and his hopes for the future of the medium were artistically ambitious, even if he turned pessimistic — not to mention startlingly prescient. ‘Fantasia,’ ‘Snow White,’ Betty Boop, Popeye and the First Golden Age of Animation 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z The resultant cacophony emphasises the vaudeville and Weimar cabaret elements of Waits's work while possessing the slapstick vim of a Saturday morning kids' TV show. L'Orchestre d'Hommes-Orchestres performs Tom Waits – review 2013-07-03T17:45:00Z Trade associations for vaudeville artists, along with other organizations, offered registry services: file your jokes with officials and, if there’s a question over who thought of it first, you’ll be able to get an answer. Patton Oswalt on the Unsavory Business of Joke Theft 2013-06-20T17:38:33Z The entire country became a Hollywood company town, and, within the space of a few years, a landscape hitherto dominated by vaudeville became the audiovisual playground that it still is today. Saul Bellow, Film Critic 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Magic has both feet planted in cheap vaudeville and childish posturing; in dishonesty and therefore not in art. Derren Brown: 'I'm being honest about my dishonesty' 2010-10-18T06:59:00Z It was unclear if the use of blackface, a throwback to minstrel and vaudeville shows which parodied black people, stemmed from ignorance or disregard, said Parham. Fraternity's blackface Jay-Z parody video fuels university racism storm 2013-04-26T18:59:00Z He did appear on Broadway, sharing an old-style vaudeville bill with the comedian Pat Cooper at the Palace Theater in 1969, and he sang at Carnegie Hall. Jimmy Roselli, Italian-American Singer, Dies at 85 2011-07-10T20:30:58Z That's the Tiger Lillies in vaudeville mode: fun, scintillating, impudent and heartless. The Tiger Lillies ? review 2011-07-21T17:17:28Z The theatre declined after vaudeville, but was reopened in 1974 thanks to local impresarios who restored it to the functionality we enjoy today. Unrestricted views: New Hampshire's Palace theatre 2012-06-14T14:28:16Z The playwright was adopted soon after his birth and raised in a wealthy family, with a father who made a fortune with vaudeville theaters. Playwright Edward Albee to receive MacDowell medal 2011-04-12T22:56:56Z The march toward nudity has driven the development of burlesque from vaudeville to strip clubs, but that progress has not always been driven by looser social norms. Not Just Strippers: Seven Things You Didn’t Know About Burlesque 2013-06-04T09:45:33Z “I think it defies categorization. It’s part vaudeville, part intellectual, part blatant sensationalism. I think a large part of the audience won’t get it.” Jeff Weiss, an Unconventional Theatrical Force, Dies at 82 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z On this triangular frame, “Red Eye” hangs assorted musical numbers that modestly take their cues from vaudeville routines, Ziegfeld-style revues, torch songs and the frantic melodies that once accompanied silent slapstick films. Early-’60s Absurdism in ‘Red Eye of Love’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The formal ball at which Eggs makes his clumsy debut in human society is a wonderful set piece, as is the open-air vaudeville re-enactment of his mythical abduction, performed by a chanteuse named Madame Frou-Frou. ‘The Boxtrolls’ Is an Adaptation of ‘Here Be Monsters!’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z While I enjoyed the vaudeville neuroses of Mr. Simpson’s Angelo, only one actor told me anything new about “Measure for Measure.” Review: Shakespeare Meets Elevator Repair Service. Mayhem Ensues. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Accompanied by a live orchestra and choir, this troupe blends vaudeville flash and flair with tutus and point shoes. Dance Listings for Oct. 10-16 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z As it is now, this ballet feels like the second act of “The Nutcracker,” with one exotic grouping after another, or a series of random vaudeville acts. New York City Ballet injects incredible zing into new Peck ballet and other works 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z He had seen the words “trash” and “vaudeville” in the same paragraph in a magazine and thought they went well together. Trash and Vaudeville, Still Selling Punk’s Look After 38 Years 2013-05-08T21:08:43Z The costumes are glitzy and glammy and sometimes a little grotesque, easier to place in the world of vaudeville or of P. T. Barnum than in that of the Carter Administration. Backstage at the Ringling Brothers Circus, 1977 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Then the show shifted gears, and a vaudeville show ensued. Peter Buck, Sara Watkins add energy to surprising Decemberists' show in Seattle 2011-02-21T20:06:03Z He performed in vaudeville shows in the 1930s, in dance bands and in the nightclubs that lined Rampart Street, the city’s historic black entertainment district. Lionel Ferbos, the oldest jazz musician in New Orleans, dies at 103 Then the rapid rise of moving pictures thoroughly disrupted the vaudeville industry: theatre after theatre closed, since they couldn’t compete with bargain prices at the cinema. So a thief walks into a comedy club: Trevor Noah, Louis C.K. and the war over plagiarized punch-lines 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z There is talent to spare in Larson and Barnum, who rarely stop moving and find exemplary moments in "Chicago's" scenes of tweaked, vaudeville pastiche. Review: 'Chicago' reminds us that image is everything 2010-11-26T05:01:00Z Gender performance as vaudeville is a logical next step. Edinburgh is over. But comedy keeps the laughs coming 2012-08-29T09:06:23Z I like theater of myth and magic with a touch of vaudeville, and it had the trifecta. ‘We Feel a Kinship With the Creature’ 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z His enthusiasm during the filming was attributed to the recreation of his earlier career as a vaudeville comedian. The Life and Times of Charlie Chaplin 2011-12-23T14:00:34Z But as the novelty wore off, movies slipped further and further down the bill at vaudeville houses, until they were being used between live acts as chasers to clear the house of indolent patrons. Critic?s Notebook: ?The Birth of Promotion: Inventing Film Publicity? 2011-11-23T23:23:57Z Spektor's work seems to owe something to the tradition of light opera or vaudeville, even. Regina Spektor – review 2012-07-07T23:05:38Z “A lot of it is illusions you would have seen in the vaudeville days — very simple, practical effects,” Timbers says of the show. The creators of the ‘Beetlejuice’ musical ‘tried to run toward Burton’ visually 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Director Joe Calarco’s production creates a cozy, old-time nightclub frame, with set designer Paige Hathaway’s enveloping vaudeville lights and plush red cushioned walls. Review | Signature’s ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’ ’ takes a while to get jazzed up 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z An actor in more than 50 films, he has a fondness for trombones, vaudeville and things agricultural — like cattle, barns, tractors and, the subject of a lot of attention lately, his orchard. Bill Pullman Keeps His Passions Out Front 2013-01-01T23:42:34Z With antic groupings, Egyptian arm bends and vaudeville steps, “Manhattan Research” doesn’t just capture the spirit of Scott; it makes visual the music’s form and offers an apt move or gesture for nearly every sound. Dance Review: Dance Heginbotham Presents ‘Manhattan Research’ 2013-08-09T20:14:42Z Stiller was born and grew up in New York, inspired by comedian Eddie Cantor and the vaudeville shows he saw with his father, a bus driver. Seinfeld star Jerry Stiller dies aged 92, son Ben pays tribute 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z In 1900, in a riverside town near Birmingham, England, a 14-year-old white girl who worked in vaudeville had a baby fathered by a fellow vaudevillian, a black American. Review: ‘Mabel Madness,’ a Singer’s 20th-Century Journey 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z It shows the black vaudeville mime artist, Johnny Hudgins, outside the Lafayette Theater. Review | First the New Yorker profiled Romare Bearden. Then the artist and activist decided to tell his own story, in pictures. 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z They told me about their continuing renovation of an abandoned vaudeville theater, also in downtown Adams, as a nonprofit arts center. 2010-02-06T03:05:00Z “Harmony” chronicles the true story of a vaudeville singing group in 1920s Germany — the Comedian Harmonists, a sextet of both Jews and gentiles — whose rise in fame collided with the Nazis’ rise to power. Barry Manilow’s Original Musical Is (Finally) Making It to New York 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z It tells the story of a mother who travels across America with her daughters in search of success with their vaudeville act. Imelda Staunton to star in Gypsy 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Her last novel, “Niagara Falls All Over Again,” which tracks a pair of comedy partners from vaudeville to Hollywood, appeared 18 years ago. Elizabeth McCracken’s First Novel in 18 Years Has Whimsy to Spare 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Acting like an old vaudeville pro, she adds, “It’s a rhetorical question.” ‘Ruthless!’ sings but ‘Zombie Prom’ is D.O.A. 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z “When I first saw the tweet ... it was a vaudeville before my eyes,” said Uzan, referring to a message sent by Trierweiler during last June’s legislative elections that expressed support for Royal’s political opponent. President’s personal life plays out on French stage 2013-02-24T01:35:43Z It’s vaudeville on Broadway — or, rather, a block and a half away on 55th Street — and a mid-20th-century call to get happy, which gives a vivaciously communal uplift to this fractious election year. Megan Does Marilyn: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Is Her Smash 2012-05-13T17:01:06Z The first two acts are a splendid vaudeville of fast talking and dirty dealing. Oliver Stone's New Wall Street: Greed Is God 2010-09-23T08:25:00Z Art history, minimalism, dance, vaudeville slapstick and feminism came together in this seminal work. The best visual art event of 2012 2012-12-05T19:00:03Z Its mix of vaudeville mugging, serious drama and innocuous partnering is as old-fashioned as the color-coordinated costumes designed by Janie Taylor. Dance Review: He?s a Bit Old-Fashioned 2011-04-24T21:32:39Z That catalog could include, for example, the vaudeville music of the composer and lyricist team Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle, whose 1921 show “Shuffle Along” was a landmark of Black Broadway. America Needs Its Own Comic Opera Company 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Rod Hull had no idea who Snoop was, and Snoop had no idea what this vaudeville guy was doing sharing a sofa with him. James Frain's favourite TV: Mad Men, Damages, After Dark 2013-06-17T11:00:00Z Yet aside from a jaunty World War I-themed “Follies” number, in the second act, Lynne Page’s choreography is less evocative of vintage vaudeville spectacle than of streamlined dinner theater. Review: In ‘Funny Girl,’ Sheridan Smith Does the Heavy Lifting 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z She continued her singing career during the early years of their marriage, often appearing in Hope’s vaudeville shows, but she largely retired to bring up their four adopted children. Dolores Hope, Bob Hope?s Widow, Dies at 102 2011-09-19T22:15:06Z Befitting these studies, there’s a rigor to conversation with Eisenberg — which can coherently zig and zag from vaudeville to Marxist feminist Silvia Federici to the semiotics of the guitar. Wendy Eisenberg finds meaning in complexity 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z To the designer Bob Mackie, she embodies a vanishing breed of “old-time vaudeville stars who were the same character on and offstage.” Movie Review: ?Carol Channing: Larger Than Life,? by Dori Berinstein 2012-02-03T00:28:15Z My favorite: An elegant shot of Nora and Ross Hendrix, two entertainers who were stranded here in 1911 after doing a vaudeville gig. Northwest African American Museum revives jazz-era Seattle 2010-04-22T19:27:00Z After graduation, rather than follow in his father’s high art footsteps, Marsh turned his drawing skills to journalism, sketching vaudeville acts for The Daily News in New York. Art Review: ‘Swing Time,’ Reginald Marsh Show, Focuses on ’30s New York 2013-07-04T17:36:22Z But for the most part the story is refracted through the zany Chicano vaudeville style that is Culture Clash's signature. 'Chavez Ravine: An L.A. Revival' misplays the drama 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Now, in “Hapless Bizarre,” Mr. Elkins embraces vaudeville and slapstick, even inviting an outsider into his creative fold: Mark Gindick, an actor who specializes in physical comedy. Doug Elkins Presents ‘Hapless Bizarre’ 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Quite: we're talking vaudeville routines about talking rabbits, and songs about Nostradamus played on the bongos. Funny foreigners: how overseas comics are storming Edinburgh 2010-08-17T20:31:00Z “I loved the fact that all of these artists were coming from musical halls and vaudeville and the circus,” he told The Los Angeles Times in 2011. Pierre Étaix, Director and Slapstick Actor, Dies at 87 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z But what we get in Wilson's production is a series of tableaux vivants framed by madcap vaudeville routines. The Old Woman – review 2013-07-05T13:45:05Z “It’s a contemporary take on the lights you get around a vaudeville stage,” O’Connor says of the bright yet stark box. A rock. A road. A tree. How set designers for 20th century’s most famous play change it up. 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The veteran actor grew up in an acting dynasty that stretches back to the vaudeville era, with her siblings David, Alexis and Rosanna Arquette paving their own Hollywood trajectories alongside her. "High Desert" star Patricia Arquette on fighting for equality: "We need to claw back some territory" 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z He grimaces and sighs like a vaudeville Puritan. Review: ‘Genius’ Puts Max Perkins and Thomas Wolfe in a Literary Bromance 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Along with her sister, Havoc was pushed into a vaudeville career by their headstrong stage mother. Actress June Havoc dies at 97 2010-03-30T02:37:00Z In the first guest post, Trav S. D., a historian of vaudeville, talked about the long bare-knuckles history shared between the boxing ring and the stage. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Making An Entrance 2012-07-05T16:52:58Z Until now, the theater has been named for John Cort, a onetime vaudeville performer who, by the early 20th century, controlled multiple theaters across the country. Broadway’s Cort Theater Will Have a New Name: James Earl Jones 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z For many years, he also appeared opposite strippers and other performers in burlesque shows, vaudeville’s more disreputable cousin. Irving Benson, comedy veteran of burlesque, dies at 102 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Each artist was asked to consider the history of Times Square and its past, which includes vaudeville, dance halls and vernacular forms. 39 Dance Performances to See This Fall 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z But with the injection of some of Mr. Reilly’s comedic chops, she added, the performances become a kind of “old-time revue” verging on vaudeville. John C. Reilly’s Group in Lincoln Center Songbook Series 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z There's something to be said for movie stars earning their spurs in vaudeville, where they were obliged to dance and sing as well as crack jokes. When did actors stop doing their own dancing? 2011-01-20T21:30:00Z The Head and the Heart are yet another band of hootenanny folkies, who at times suggest a vaudeville act run amok. Lollapalooza Day 1: Black Sabbath, Black Keys and Passion Pit's black thoughts 2012-08-04T06:11:00Z The title describes the climax, a weird vaudeville show presented on a rickety outdoor stage for an audience of everyone Binew has encountered over the previous 12 hours. 'The Living Wake': high-minded, with lowbrow pleasures 2010-06-03T22:32:00Z Their successful lawsuit to emancipate themselves from their original manager, a sensation at the time, is chronicled, as is their experience later as one of the highest-paid acts in vaudeville. At Kennedy Center, ‘Side Show’ takes another turn around the midway Although he was Canadian, his music was steeped in Americana: in blues, country, ragtime, Cajun music, parlor songs, Appalachian ballads, gospel, circus bands, vaudeville and his Indigenous heritage. Robbie Robertson’s 16 Essential Songs 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z “Catch Me” uses the TV song-and-dance show the way “Chicago” uses vaudeville: It’s the structure through which we meet the characters and watch the plot develop. | 'Catch Me if You Can' : Scamming as Fast as He Can 2011-04-11T02:01:04Z Besides — the vaudeville rules regulated an art form that was economically and creatively very different than modern stand-up. So a thief walks into a comedy club: Trevor Noah, Louis C.K. and the war over plagiarized punch-lines 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z But the real kick is discovering the forgotten comedy duos, eccentric dancers and other staples of the vaudeville circuit.
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2010-12-24T14:10:00Z His heart is in vaudeville and in talent shows, but he was born too late for the Ziegfeld Follies, too early for “American Idol.” Meet the Executioner. Your Amateur Night at the Apollo Is Over. 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z It’s not as if Americans lack proletarian comics of our own, thanks to our parallel tradition of vaudeville and burlesque. DVD: Will Hay and Norman Wisdom Comedies on DVD 2013-01-19T15:00:00Z Every few years, it seems, someone rediscovers the Hilton sisters, the conjoined twins who spent decades as a sideshow attraction and then a vaudeville act in the heart of the last century. ‘Bound by Flesh’ Centers on the Hiltons, Conjoined Twins 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Anderson, flanked by two muscular men, struts and shrugs through the famous number with ginger vaudeville style, yet the sense of quirky, exacting machinery isn’t quite there. Review | Splashy ‘Pajama Game’ at Arena Stage aims to seduce with 1950s style 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The style of acting brings to mind the British fairy-tale Christmastime entertainments known as panto, early-20th-century vaudeville and the mildly naughty musical romps from the 1930s of Rodgers and Hart and Cole Porter. | 'Peter and the Starcatcher': Peter Pan (the Early Years), With Bounding Main and All 2011-03-10T03:30:25Z The Aristocrats is a documentary comedy in which 100 comedians tell variations on the same joke that’s been told by comedians since the vaudeville era. The 50 funniest films… chosen by comedians 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z On the other hand, the hillbilly vaudeville gives us something to watch and respond to. Review: ‘Outsiders,’ the Latest Iteration of the American Family as Criminal Enterprise 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Above, a bevy of “Saturday Night Live” stars bustled around like stewards of an institution, going easy on catchphrases and heavy on vaudeville bonhomie. At the Emmys, the TV Industry Runs Past Schedule to Reckon with Its Past 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, the combination of malignance and desiccated vaudeville reaps big, but diminishing, returns. Neil Hamburger 2010-08-20T14:32:00Z “This is half-naked dances. There were political strands in it, but he was above all the entertainer, you know; he was writing music that was influenced by vaudeville and variety.” Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z He dumps the contents on a panel and performs an impressive homage to vaudeville hoofer Howard “Sandman” Sims. Dancing is Tapman’s strength, but production values are his Kryptonite The first chapter I read aloud, Chapter 16, in which Ishmael boards the Pequod to sign on for his fateful voyage, felt like a vaudeville routine starring Peleg and Bildad, the ship’s owners. On the trail of ‘Moby-Dick’ in three New England towns 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z She grew up in Winnipeg, where she began appearing in local vaudeville productions at 10 and singing in church as a teenager. Iva Withers, a Standby to the Rescue on Broadway, Dies at 97 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Splashes of crimson blood, and the gloves of the colluding Buckingham are the bare spots of colour in a dark-hued world of brutal acts and murderous vaudeville turns. The Comedy of Errors/Richard III ? review 2011-01-30T17:50:01Z Even into the 20th century, vaudeville and music hall anticipated and rewarded a responsive public. How to Birth a New American Theater 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z I came from a vaudeville family where you picked yourself up and kept going. Joan Leslie, girl-next-door movie star of the 1940s, dies at 90 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z For his production, Kosky has gone back to the original concept of the show as a musical vaudeville with a heavy dose of bile and a dash of Brechtian alienation, while also embracing burlesque elements. Review: ‘Chicago,’ With Nary a Finger Snap 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z They couldn’t be, they say, rooted as they are in the populist traditions of vaudeville. How Blue Turned to Green: Blue Man Group at 25 Years 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z The play employed the campy tools of vaudeville to explore “the relationship between revolution, violence and art,” Allen says. After 15 years, a forest, a pig and a giant tongue, Echo Park alternative arts space Machine Project is closing its doors 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Aligned to all this cosmic adventurism, though, was his oddly old-fashioned attraction to showbusiness, vaudeville and musicals. Who is David Bowie? A guide to the V&A retrospective 2013-02-16T19:59:00Z Or they amble in unison as vaudeville show dancers lip-synching pop. Catch 'Sharks' before it swims away 2011-06-03T16:28:51Z Vaudeville was an influence because vaudeville’s rise and fall coincided with that of the Mizners. Sondheim’s ‘Road Show’ on the rebound at Signature 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Projections designed by Robbie Hayes show images of famous performers — shots of Sammy Davis Jr. as a toddler in vaudeville; jazz greats; 1960s crossover stars. In MetroStage’s ‘Shake Loose,’ nothing’s left unsung 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z It is the detailed mise en scène, the tawdry desperation of backstage vaudeville that’s the real draw. Vintage crime reprints: mysterious tales that never die 2013-06-05T22:27:56Z It’s the tale of how the twins trade a degrading “career” in the carnival for the more glamorous exploitation of the vaudeville circuit and, later, Hollywood. A big, beautiful “Side Show” on Broadway In this comedy about old vaudeville acts, the Dying Swan expires three times in quick succession, and the loveliest dancing comes from the character who is only an amateur performer: the stagehand. Paul Taylor: Return of the Beloved Renegade 2010-02-19T16:07:00Z It is also full of Beckettian shifts in register, from the mundane to the metaphysical, as well as bits of business that have the jaunty rhythms of vaudeville routines. | 'Fragments': ?Fragments? at Baryshnikov Arts Center - Review 2011-11-15T22:05:03Z Mr. Burstein’s knockabout “Buddy’s Blues,” a low vaudeville clown turn, seethes with a genuine exasperated ambivalence that comments wryly on both Buddy’s self-flagellating nature and on the cathartic nastiness of music-hall humor. | 'Follies': Broadway Babies? Glory Days 2011-05-23T02:01:05Z He described the silhouettes as straddling “Django Unchained,” — a “vaudeville parody” — and “Twelve Years a Slave,” a historical drama. Kara Walker Creates a Confection at the Domino Refinery 2014-04-25T14:00:08Z So abject and naked is Mr. Thicke’s pleading that it disproves almost a century of theatrical history by asserting that vaudeville is not dead. How to Get Over That Ex 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z This is a show that never stays still, a deliberate mess that shifts moods and genres, tossing together tap dancing, beatboxing and multiple costume changes with the anything-goes spirit of vaudeville. Reggie Watts, the Tip of Comedy’s Absurdist Spear 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z But Mr. Kander mines a number of musical veins, including the jaunty jazz and vaudeville pastiches for which he is best known, with results that are scattered, a bit bewilderingly, among the characters. Review: In ‘Kid Victory,’ Rescued but Not Free 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Beale’s character gets drunk on the stuff, for sure, but he also flings it repeatedly – and with crack vaudeville timing – into the face of a snidely insinuating employee. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: The Empire Crumbles 2013-06-28T17:06:22Z More companies are hiring more musicians to make the scores sound good, and music director Jake Null’s 11 instrumentalists are fairly reliable at delivering this show’s vaudeville colors, including the jaunty banjo and laughing horns. Review | ‘Chicago’ finds legroom at Keegan Theatre 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Like the original vaudeville shows from the turn of the nineteenth century, it showcases short sketches from comedians, singers, dancers and burlesque performers. Conjuring up a career with one of NYC’s only female magicians 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z When vaudeville faded out and its stars migrated to the livelier burlesque shows, Betty and Rozelle went on the road as chorus girls. Betty Rowland, One of Burlesque's Last Queens, Dies at 106 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z It is a direct, manly piece.… The whole number is as sound as a superb vaudeville turn; in ballet terminology it is perfect American character ballet. Two Musicals 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Modeling their act on the commercially successful Boswell Sisters, they joined a traveling revue and sang at country fairs and in vaudeville shows. Patty Andrews, Singer With the Andrews Sisters, Dies at 94 2013-01-31T01:28:16Z Television comedy in its early days was dominated by boisterous veterans of vaudeville and radio who specialized in broad slapstick and snappy one-liners. Sid Caesar, Comedian and One of TV’s First Stars, Dies at 91 2014-02-12T22:07:12Z It was invented in the 1910s by a vaudeville performer who went by the name ‘Harry Fox.’ Downton Abbey Watch: The Week After 2013-02-04T13:00:11Z The age of vaudeville would have loved him. Perspective | One day with Dick Gregory made me know he was truly one of a kind 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z He also sang in a choir behind the famous cantor Yossele Rosenblatt, and began pecking out popular songs and Yiddish vaudeville tunes. Irving Fields, Composer Who Infused Songs With Latin Rhythms, Dies at 101 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z The club once drew burlesque dancers and vaudeville stars, and their bawdy, off-color humor is part of the club’s DNA. At the Friars Club, When the Laughter Stopped 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z One of the pieces from that exhibition, “Nobody,” about the history of Black vaudeville, is now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. After Reflected Fame, the Artist Karon Davis Steps Into Her Own Light 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z It’s an odd combination of slick steampunk and cheesy vaudeville, high-tech razzle and low-budget dazzle. Theater Review: ‘Around the World in 80 Days,’ at New Theater at 45th Street 2013-06-06T20:56:30Z She studied classical piano at the Guildhall School Of Music but, to her family's disappointment, left the course and her home to tour with a vaudeville act aged 17. Jazz pianist Marian McPartland dies 2013-08-22T10:30:31Z For nearly a century, the Baronet Theater in Asbury Park, N.J., was a popular venue for vaudeville theater and blockbuster films. New Beach Destination on the Jersey Shore? Asbury Park 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Number of events Around 100, in eight spaces, including a former vaudeville theater, a renovated Depression-era movie palace, a disused church and a nature center. Big Ears Festival Resists Commercial and Genre Constraints 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z The arrangements by her brilliant pianist, Yasuhiko Fukuoka, found a seamless blend of folk, classical, blues and vaudeville styles. Review: Stacy Sullivan Performs an Act of Remembrance 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z The rapport between him and Mr. Hodge, grounded in the peppery give and take of a vaudeville team, reminds us that there’s a necessary dash of showbiz to marriage. | 'La Cage aux Folles': Kelsey Grammer and Douglas Hodge on Broadway 2010-04-19T04:59:00Z At the Niagara Daredevil Exhibit, just across the Canadian border, the name of the young vaudeville actress Maud Willard appears on a list of failures. Echoes of an Exposition, and an Assassination 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Hope replies, “Not me, I used to be in vaudeville.” DVDs: On DVD, ?Bob Hope: Thanks for the Memories Collection? 2010-06-05T02:15:00Z Daisy and Violet transitioned from the carny world to vaudeville around that time; in 1932, they appeared in Tod Browning’s classic film “Freaks.” Freaks on Broadway 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Back in the days of vaudeville, the label “eccentric dancing” was accepted for a wide range of idioms, not least tap. BalletX Flaunts Its Seriously Absurd Style 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The Kennedys’ mother, Mildred, had performed as “The Brown Bomber” on the New England vaudeville circuit, and they were hooked up to a black tap tradition that had fallen into decline. She’s the Queen of Tap. Is Her Moment Now? 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z It's a posh affair, shot in the lobby of a magnificent former vaudeville theater in Manhattan's Washington Heights. Not the same old song-and-dance as 'Smash' returns 2013-02-04T15:28:08Z When – decades later — vaudeville, circuses and early motion pictures began to spread, they were denounced for their corrupting influence on the young and working classes. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z Howard Stern may fancy himself the King of All Media, but he's got nothing on Hope, who flourished in every major mass-entertainment medium of his time, including vaudeville, radio, television, movies and books. Four ways Bob Hope conquered the entertainment world 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z And yet out of the ashes of rejection, she persevered, becoming an Australian vaudeville chanteuse, a British theatrical luminary, a B-film pulp diva and an American television celebrity. After Hollywood thwarted Anna May Wong, the actress took matters into her own hands 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z His father was a vaudeville performer, his mother played piano for a radio station: Both performed at resorts in the Catskills, and as a kid, Lewis would join them. Comedic Legend Jerry Lewis Dead at 91 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z The “pie in the face” gag began as a vaudeville go-to, as did “The Aristocrats,” the classic dirty joke comics still put their own spins on today. So a thief walks into a comedy club: Trevor Noah, Louis C.K. and the war over plagiarized punch-lines 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z In all the vaudeville acts we had and the musical comedies we did together, Delly was the one that was the shining light and I was just there pushing away.” ‘The Astaires,’ by Kathleen Riley 2012-06-01T22:36:06Z The most salutary and topical lesson of all in this amiably didactic vaudeville may be that, like so much else in this world, screens are usually big fat liars. Review: ‘Penn & Teller on Broadway’ Explores the Illusions of Technology 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Historians peg the birth of stand-up comedy to the late-19th century vaudeville era, when a variety of acts including burlesque dancers, musicians, jugglers and sketch comedy duos toured theaters across the country. So a thief walks into a comedy club: Trevor Noah, Louis C.K. and the war over plagiarized punch-lines 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, from 7 to 9 p.m., the program is “Circus Now!,” hosted by Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, a New York troupe that blends vaudeville and Wild West shows with its own aesthetic. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 16-22 2013-08-15T22:37:20Z As a teenager, he observed veteran vaudeville comedians in action as he poked into night spots along the boardwalk. Jack Carter, Comedian Who Brought His Rapid-Fire Delivery to TV, Dies at 93 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Diaz’s “Antigonón,” at the Eisenhower on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, was a robust 85-minute vaudeville of sorts in which five actors took a jaundiced look at Cuban society. Perspective | The world still comes to Washington’s stage 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z But the series became a hit because of the comic chemistry between Caesar and Coca, a former vaudeville performer nearly 14 years his senior, who died in 2001 at age 92. Comic great Sid Caesar of "Your Show of Shows" dies at 91 2014-02-13T00:23:23Z But for the most part these are acts forgotten by time, whose rediscovery greatly widens our sense of the vaudeville era. Video: All Talking, All Singing, All but Forgotten 2011-05-06T21:13:01Z She exuded bone-deep affection and respect for vaudeville stylings, in which impeccably controlled artifice became a conduit for sentimentality as well as rowdy humor. Review: ‘Hello, Dolly!’ Is Bright, Brassy and All Bette 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z The movie is about two comedians who reunite years after their vaudeville comedy act was popular. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Bachelorette’ and ‘Abbott Elementary’ 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z His parents, Lon Smith and Constance Farmer, were vaudeville performers and encouraged his interest in music. Paul Smith, Jazz Pianist, Is Dead at 91 2013-07-03T23:57:46Z Some people think I’m obsessed with working with old tractors, others see that in my free time I’m putting on these vaudevilles, and Yung gets to think that I’m obsessed about fruit.” Bill Pullman Keeps His Passions Out Front 2013-01-01T23:42:34Z The TV version of vaudeville’s “playing the Palace,” it conferred a seal of approval, even of importance, on the acts that appeared there. A really big show: tribute to a coup — Beatles on ‘Ed Sullivan’ 2014-02-04T19:49:20Z One display case will be devoted to early-20th-century photographs, postcards and other ephemera from Lucy Nicolar, a Maine native and Penobscot tribe member who was a singer, vaudeville star and civil rights activist. Dressed to Kill: The Power of Leopard Prints 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z “Germinal” is what might be called an ontological vaudeville. Review: ‘Germinal’ Sheds a Light on Creativity and All Creation 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z It’s hard to discuss early American popular music without Macon, a vaudeville performer in the early 20th century who became the first star of the Grand Ole Opry, rightfully deemed “the grandfather of country music.” The other side of America’s iconic folk anthology is entrancing — but also plenty disturbing 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z But there’s nothing conventional about this theatrical version, which draws on the British tradition of panto, an art form far more closely related to vaudeville than to mime. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Musical theater, a genre with roots in the European operetta tradition, has drawn inspiration from such varied influences as vaudeville, jazz and Tin Pan Alley. Give them a hand! Musicals stage a comeback. 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Initially associated with that area's "mountain music", by the 20s the singing saw was a standard in music hall and vaudeville around the world. Hey, what's that sound: Musical saw 2010-06-07T15:12:00Z By the time he was a teenager, he was touring the country with vaudeville acts with names like Mr. Arthur Bull’s Francisco Spook Show. Sid Fleischman, Children?s Author, Dies at 90 2010-03-24T23:24:00Z She was also a vaudeville performer and acted on radio and television. Jean Darling, Actress in ‘Our Gang’ Series, Dies at 93 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z A small child bounced about onstage as part of his parents’ rough-and-tumble vaudeville act, Joseph Frank Keaton had received his nickname — a slang term for a spill — to acknowledge his stoic resilience. On Video: Buster Keaton’s Talkie ‘Free and Easy’ Comes to DVD 2014-03-23T19:49:40Z Magic led him to vaudeville and what would become his signature ability: to free himself from any locked device under increasingly adverse conditions. Lots of magic — but little illumination — in 'Houdini' 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z In truth, success and self-actualization did not come easily to Davis, who started out as a prodigy in vaudeville. Sammy Davis Jr.’s Knotty Journey, on Film and in Song 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z In the duo’s well-versed affection for the past century of entertainment, they remind us that the best drag acts trace their DNA all the way back to, well, vaudeville. | Jinkx Monsoon’s Joyfully Cracked Ode to Vaudeville 2013-07-17T22:20:27Z In La Jolla, the characters of Terry Connor and his partner, Buddy Foster, both of whom are determined to make vaudeville stars out of the Hiltons, were fuzzy in their motivations and desires. Revivals turn 2 problem-child musicals into something special 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z In those moments he might have been a vaudeville copycat trading on nostalgia. Max Morath, Pianist Who Staged a One-Man Ragtime Revival, Dies at 96 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z But Broadway has deep roots in vaudeville — no story, just acts — so audiences are right: We’ll always crave performances that revel in that singing, dancing beat. Perspective | Are jukebox musicals like ‘The Cher Show’ dumbing down Broadway, or just giving us what we want? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z “The Magic Flute” does have elements of a vaudeville show, especially in Ms. Taymor’s production, with its fire-breathing statues and billowing puppets that dance and frolic. Opera Review: Jane Glover Conducts ‘The Magic Flute’ at the Met 2013-12-17T22:44:44Z His passion for the show, with its bizarre heroines — Siamese twins who become vaudeville stars — was a major impetus for the Kennedy Center-produced revival. At Kennedy Center, ‘Side Show’ takes another turn around the midway Chipaumire takes the notion of minstrelsy and revises it along the lines of both race and gender, creating a newfangled tribal vaudeville show for the digital age. Nora Chipaumire Makes Darkness Visible 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Built in 1915 by Victor Charas, a Greek immigrant, to copy its namesake in New York, the Palace hosted performances from Bob Hope, Harry Houdini and the Marx Brothers in the days of vaudeville. Unrestricted views: New Hampshire's Palace theatre 2012-06-14T14:28:16Z Robinson’s vaudeville triumphs included performing at New York’s Palace Theatre — the summit of vaudeville prestige and the venue where, the story goes, he debuted his signature stair dance in 1918. ‘The Mayor of Harlem’ celebrates Bill Robinson as dance superstar, as well as social activist 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Benson never forgot his lines, never lost his timing and never forgot where the world of vaudeville had taken him. Irving Benson, comedy veteran of burlesque, dies at 102 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z If you know the work of Mr. Wilson — who several years ago transformed Mikhail Baryshnikov and Willem Dafoe into cryptic, interchangeable vaudeville clowns in “The Old Woman” — you should get the picture. Review: ‘Krapp’s Last Tape,’ a Melancholy Tone Poem 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z “I call it the new vaudeville in that it’s a theatrical experience that involves illusion and goes beyond a strict narrative piece,” Ritchie said. Kirk Douglas Theatre's 2015-2016 season: 'Straight White Men,' Courtney Love 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z He worked in the vaudeville theater, in which a variety of performers — singers, jugglers, dancers, magicians — appeared on a single bill. Irving Benson, comedy veteran of burlesque, dies at 102 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Located on the east side, this classic spot feels like it's an old live theatre, with a dose of vaudeville sparkle. Top 10 live music venues in Portland, Oregon 2013-05-24T23:10:00Z She did the Palace gig and made it a historic hit, playing there for an unprecedented nineteen weeks and winning a special Tony Award for aiding in “the revival of vaudeville.” Judy Garland’s Hollywood Unravelling, Through the Eyes of Her Husband and Producer Sid Luft 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Though the story is based on a one-act vaudeville play about a count and a band of knights who infiltrate a convent, the French libretto alters and expands the story. Whose Version of Rossini? Scholar Disagrees With the Met 2011-04-08T19:41:26Z It was in California where Coates cut her teeth in show business, performing in Ken Murray’s vaudeville show. Phyllis Coates, actor who first portrayed 'Superman' reporter Lois Lane on TV, dies at 96 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Of recently turning 95, he jokes that he feels like a bad vaudeville performer who soon will be pulled offstage by a hook. The architect of L.A.'s iconic Capitol Records building sets the record straight — again — on that needle 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Moira: … one of my favorite places on Earth: the enchanting Rose Theatre, in a former 1907 vaudeville house right smack in the middle of downtown. Dinner at a Movie takes a picture-perfect day trip to Port Townsend 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z As far back as the late 19th century, vaudeville shows and early Hollywood films featured gender-nonconforming performers. L.A.'s drag scene is bigger than ever. But it’ll take ‘rebellion' to keep it safe 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Kitano, 76, began in Japan’s equivalent of vaudeville as a stand-up comic with the stage name Beat Takeshi, before becoming a superstar on TV shows and films. Japan auteur Kitano’s latest samurai film headed to Cannes 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z “Sweetwater” also offers snippets of several Trotters games, which are less competitions than highly athletic vaudeville routines. Review | ‘Sweetwater’: Clunky sports biopic has less grace than its subject 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z The couple became close friends of Julian Eltinge, a vaudeville luminary who also starred in silent pictures. An Old Hollywood actor created a treasure map. Could it be real? 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Kimmel joked about Renner’s injuries as the actor continued waving his cane and kicking his legs up from his seat like a vaudeville performer. Jeremy Renner dances on 'Kimmel' stage before detailing near-fatal snowplow accident 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z In West, every character is out of place — an Ivy Leaguer beguiled by Hollywood, a vaudeville hoofer reduced to door-to-door selling, a Midwesterner lured to California for his health, a suspiciously mature child actor. L.A.'s writers make their case for their absolute favorite books on the city 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z The Apollo has hosted a range of musical performances, including vaudeville and mariachi, since the 1920s. One Dead and Dozens Hurt in Roof Collapse at Illinois Theater 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z In its suit, the theater company had highlighted the global history of drag performances, from the male actors who performed female roles in plays by William Shakespeare to American vaudeville productions. Judge Temporarily Blocks Tennessee Law That Restricts Drag Performances 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Before that, he and his brother and sister were part of an act known as "The Three Little Hillbillies" on the vaudeville circuit. Factbox: Life and career of film and TV actor Robert Blake 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z At age 2, Blake was performing with a brother and sister in a family vaudeville act called, “The Three Little Hillbillies.” Robert Blake, actor acquitted in wife’s murder, dies at 89 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z The theater opened in 1927 catering specifically to the Black audiences and held concerts, talent shows, live theater and vaudeville acts. 13 historical sites that made Central Avenue the cultural lifeline of South L.A. 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Originally built as a movie palace and vaudeville playhouse, it suffered the fate of many once-grand cinemas, as moviegoers fled downtowns for the suburbs. Over 52 years, he’s seen the changes at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Hypnosis is more of a mindfulness practice than a vaudeville act. Your Monday Briefing: U.S. Destroys U.F.O.s 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z Toney — who gained vaudeville fame under the name Eddie Leonard — suggested that Robinson was close to 20, but he was known to fudge dates and ages. Perspective | For a brief time before his fame, ‘Bojangles’ Robinson danced in D.C. 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z He does and then he doesn’t, which is how Roxie lands on the same prison block with her vaudeville idol, Velma. How to watch every best picture winner from 2000 through 2009 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z "You might as well say, 'Vaudeville! I love going to vaudeville!' You know, that ended. Things end. Approval ratings — they're irrelevant and often wrong." Michael Moore was right about the midterms — now he offers hope for progressives in red zones 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z Toward the end, we see her walking away from the friend’s camera, kicking up her heels like a vaudeville comedian, nothing but lightness. ‘Corsage’ review: A striking Vicky Krieps anchors this anachronistic biopic 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z “In the days of vaudeville, there was a whole list of words you couldn’t say onstage,” said Nesteroff. The rise and fall of cancel culture in comedy 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Could America really fall for this vaudeville charlatan all over again? America is still deeply traumatized — and the midterms didn't fix that 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z “I was trained in music hall, ” the English-born O’Toole said, referring to his country’s version of vaudeville. ‘My Favorite Year,’ comic salute to TV’s golden age, hits 40 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z In July, Michele was tapped to replace Beanie Feldstein as the legendary Jewish vaudeville star in the Broadway production of “Funny Girl.” Lea Michele announces 'Funny Girl' Broadway cast album: 'I'm so proud of it' 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z “All cartoons rely on the unexpected twist, but Booth reveled in the haywire. There was always a joyous thump or a whump hovering around his work — often with a measure of vaudeville humor.” George Booth, whose cartoon dogs became a New Yorker staple, dies at 96 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z “You certainly couldn’t swear. And if you did, you would be fired from the vaudeville circuit. Even if you had a contract, it would be negated.” The rise and fall of cancel culture in comedy 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z There’s no upside to being a dinosaur if you go extinct, but Mr. Presten discovered that by sticking around, he could become his own final vaudeville character: the press agent from the Mesozoic Era. Sy Presten, Press Agent So Old-Fashioned He Was News, Dies at 98 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z Drag performances could later be seen on the vaudeville circuit and during the Harlem Renaissance. EXPLAINER: Drag queens and how they got pulled into politics 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z While tripping, Grant reassesses his past: Chapters ping-pong across time from his vaudeville days to his childhood to the talkies to middle-age ennui, jumbling the narrative to evoke Grant’s search for a logical arc. Review: Cary Grant takes acid. Fiction ensues 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z She recently returned to the stage as the Jewish vaudeville legend after missing several shows due to a case of COVID-19. Recovered from COVID-19, Lea Michele performs 'Funny Girl' song on 'The Tonight Show' 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z A message on the “Funny Girl” website confirms that Michele will return to the stage as the Jewish vaudeville legend Sept. 20. Lea Michele pauses 'Funny Girl' run after testing positive for coronavirus 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z Another common form of popular entertainment was vaudeville—large stage variety shows that included everything from singing, dancing, and comedy acts to live animals and magic. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Five years later, Hanson is the club manager and goes to meetings every Wednesday morning for breakfast, vaudeville and a guest speaker. How to make real L.A. friends, according to Angelenos who swear it's possible 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Left to his own devices, he found the theater, first working as a stagehand and then as a vaudeville performer with a specialty in stilt-walking and physical comedy. Review: Cary Grant takes acid. Fiction ensues 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z For 36 years, Bubbles was part of the song-and-dance team Buck and Bubbles, one of the longest-lasting partnerships in vaudeville history. Review | Michael Jackson and Bob Fosse owe their moves to a man called Bubbles 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z The Palace opened as a vaudeville venue in 1913, at a time when the invention of neon lights was turning the area into a nighttime theater district. Times Square at Its Overcrowded, Dizzying Worst Is Exactly What N.Y.C. Needs 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z The vaudeville circuit gave rise to several prominent performers, including magician Harry Houdini, who began his career in these variety shows before his fame propelled him to solo acts. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z After performing across the country on vaudeville’s Pantages circuit, he learned how to make the instruments as an apprentice at the Guerrini Accordion Company in San Francisco. For 100 years, Petosa Accordions has squeezed out the competition (and critics) with its instruments 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Doing vaudeville, he craves “feeling as if there’s someplace I really belong.” Review: Cary Grant takes acid. Fiction ensues 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Harker meticulously plots the points where racial discrimination limited the showman’s opportunities on the vaudeville circuits and in Hollywood. Review | Michael Jackson and Bob Fosse owe their moves to a man called Bubbles 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z The visual gag was popularized in vaudeville and in silent movies, and on-screen pieing became a cinematic staple, with practitioners such as Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and the Three Stooges. Trump’s killer tomatoes and the history of food as protest projectile 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z However, a vaudeville performers’ strike generated even greater interest in the films, eventually resulting in the rise of modern movie theaters by 1910. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Perrier infused “The Legend of Black Herman” with elements that range from kitschy to sensual, adding notes of vaudeville, carnival acts and church sermons. Derek Fordjour examines magic, race and revelry in two L.A. art installations 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Once, when called on to recite a Latin poem in school, Mr. Walton instead launched into a vaudeville skit he had learned, later noting, “I got booted out of that class.” Tony Walton, stage designer who won Oscar, Emmy and Tony awards, dies at 87 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z His eye was drawn to cheap entertainments — circuses, vaudeville theater, auctions and — inevitably — Coney Island. Review | Milton Avery was the 20th century’s great ‘painter’s painter’ 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z The night closed with “The Burning Bush,” an opera from the Baltimore-based team of composer Jasmine Barnes and Joshua Banbury — and set in a surrealist version of that city’s long-ago vaudeville scene. Review | Kennedy Center’s ambitious ‘Cartography Project’ makes a strong showing with eight premieres 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z The first nickelodeon opened in Pittsburgh in 1905, where nearly one hundred visitors packed into a storefront theater to see a traditional vaudeville show interspersed with one-minute film clips. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z His father, Sidney, started out as a vaudeville dancer and later manufactured shirts. Conrad Janis, actor best known for ‘Mork & Mindy’ role, dies at 94 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Sensing an opportunity to be the center of attention, Trump took over the daily Covid briefings and turned them into a macabre vaudeville act, pushing snake oils cures and battling with the media. COVID — and Donald Trump — broke our social contract 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z In the United States, musical variety shows were called vaudeville. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Drawing becomes riotously, beautifully alive in Quinn’s vaudeville of aging and anatomy, but so does the wonderfully personal message delivered through her never-too-late-to-try heroine: There’s power in passion, whenever it strikes you in life. Here's which of this year's Oscar nominated shorts are worth seeing 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z This isn’t the first time I’ve wished this dark vaudeville wouldn’t be saddled with a such a tricky libretto. Review: East West Players revives a disturbingly timely 'Assassins' 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, she reproduces erratic gestures reminiscent of vaudeville, wildly jerking her thumb in the air and blowing raspberries at a passer-by in Cassavetes’s 1974 film, “A Woman Under the Influence.” Watching This Movie Taught Me It Was OK to Fail 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z His titles — “Debbie Millstein Swallowed a Thumbtack,” “Hungarian Dog Wrestler,” “The Day It Rained Babies I Caught a Couple” — sounded as if he had borrowed them from old vaudeville routines. John Wesley, an Artist Who Couldn’t Be Pinned Down, Dies at 93 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z There’s an old joke that dates back to vaudeville theater in the 19th century that comedians love putting their own spin on. Perspective | Bob Saget’s wholesome gift of a dirty mouth 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z Nonfiction: “A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance,” by Hanif Abdurraqib, makes powerful observations about race through music, television, film, minstrel shows and vaudeville. The Latest Covid Surge 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z In the late 18th and 19th centuries, many talented women in magic worked on the vaudeville circuit, some as assistants. A new show aims to make an antiquated notion — that women in the variety arts don't exist — disappear 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Even at their relative peak, the Bengals were a charming vaudeville act that flopped whenever it reached Broadway because of the absence of stars. The Bengals Are Good. Ja’Marr Chase Makes Them Interesting. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z He was a self-taught student of vaudeville, a professional juggler and an accomplished college athlete. Actor Peter Scolari, 'Bosom Buddies' and 'Newhart' star, dies at 66 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z There is room for bits of Shakespeare, vaudeville theatrics and road trip trivia like the paper place mat maps at Howard Johnson’s restaurants. Amor Towles follows 2 brothers on an epic road trip in fine new novel ‘The Lincoln Highway’ 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z In late September that year, the new American Legion Hall on the southwest corner of 10th Avenue and 50th Street hosted the affair, which promised dancing, “free vaudeville” and a “Young Woman’s Popularity Contest.” Twin architects banked on a legacy of faith plus finance 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Driven by her mother, a thwarted actress, Ms. Withers debuted on the vaudeville stage at 2 and by 4 had her own radio show in Atlanta billed as “Dixie’s Dainty Dewdrop.” Jane Withers, impish child star of Depression-era Hollywood, dies at 95 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z |
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