| 单词 | vaudevillian |
| 例句 | They were the legs of a once quite widely acknowledged public beauty, a vaudevillian, a dancer, a very light dancer. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Moses and Kitch specifically recall not only Beckett’s vaudevillians, but also enslaved African-Americans working a plantation and even biblical Israelites escaping from Egypt. Review: Waiting for Po-Po in a Searing ‘Pass Over’ 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The original score encompassed a wide variety of musical styles — mostly folk but with some pop, rock and even vaudevillian razzmatazz thrown in. | 'Godspell' : ?Godspell? at the Circle in the Square - Review 2011-11-08T03:00:04Z Dolly’s irrepressible theatricality allows Midler to do what she does best — put an audience under her modern vaudevillian spell. Bette Midler and 'Hello, Dolly!': A match that makes for Broadway heaven 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z In this, they’re pretty much the opposite of those earlier performers, who were vaudevillian troupers before they were thespians. Review: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone Aswirl in ‘La La Land’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, bitter rivals, star in this cult classic thriller about an aging vaudevillian actress who keeps her paralyzed sister captive in an old mansion. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ and the Olympics 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z And I’m thinking of the images of vaudevillian skeletons, and a weeping soldier, and spiral nebulae that have preoccupied the artist of late. Jasper Johns: Divide and Conquer 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z “I often say I was sort of trained like a vaudevillian,” she recalled. Pushing the Spotlight Away From Herself 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z At the beginning of 1914, a young British vaudevillian named Charles Spencer Chaplin joined Mack Sennett’s Keystone Comedy Company to make a series of silent movies. Book review: ‘Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life,’ by Peter Ackroyd 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z My Chemical Romance was imperiously self-deprecating; Fall Out Boy was exuberant; Panic! at the Disco was vaudevillian—and all three went double platinum. The Rise of Emo Nostalgia 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z In the past, I and others have commented that Leigh's dialogue in his contemporary movies has an exaggerated, vaudevillian, neo-Dickensian quality. Cannes 2014: Mr Turner review – Timothy Spall plays artist JMW Turner with relish 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Testa, a vaudevillian to the bone, socked out “Hard Hearted Hannah” with gusto, but her “Body and Soul” was made of brass. Music Review: At the Broadway Cabaret Festival, Kooks and Cutups 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z Ms. Harris makes a vivid vaudevillian and Mr. Swenson is genetically incapable of not being dashing. Review: ‘The Royal Family of Broadway,’ This Time in Song 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z A vaudevillian could happily cash-in with the same 10 minute set in 50 different cities — but a stand-up would need a solid hour to headline a club or record an album. 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 other ways, “Titanic Depression,” a new multimedia performance, could only have come from the madcap brain of Dynasty Handbag, the queer vaudevillian with punk origins and questionable taste in unitards. A Queer Punk Vaudevillian’s Surreal Take on ‘Titanic’ 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z The “Sergeant Pepper” theme is brassy and vaudevillian. From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, she persisted, and ended up with 25 Emmys for 11 seasons of “The Carol Burnett Show,” in which she zipped through movie parodies, vaudevillian musical numbers, zany skits and audience banter with panache. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Curb’ and a Carol Burnett Celebration 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z He will be followed there June 16 through 27 by Tony Danza, a cheerful, charming vaudevillian who recently starred on Broadway in “Honeymoon in Vegas.” Pop, Rock & Cabaret for June 5-11 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z First seen weaving through a row of empty chairs, booming out the names of Welsh towns he visited on his healing tours, he exudes the stale aroma of an old-time vaudevillian’s greasepaint. ‘Faith Healer’ Review: Michael Sheen Stirs the Embers in the Ashes 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z Before he took to science fiction, Verne provided librettos for Parisian operetta, and Pip Leckenby's design has a velvet-swagged, vaudevillian look. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 2010-06-02T21:01:00Z One of them was a vaudevillian named George Jessel, and there was an actor named Lou Jacobi who was just solemn and deliberate. 'Futurama'-Rama: Welcome Back to the World of Tomorrow 2010-06-24T13:30:00Z On those outings, I felt like I was leading the life of a time-warp vaudevillian. John Lithgow, on Barnstorming His Way to Broadway 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z A guest appearance by the actor and clown Bill Irwin brought out the vaudevillian side of the show with scatting wordplay that involved layering syllables and some hat choreography, too. Review: Lindy Hopping Into the Present With Caleb Teicher and Co. 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Ms. DeHaven was the daughter of vaudevillians and enjoyed a long career propelled by her warm singing voice and fetching looks. Gloria DeHaven, actress in 1940s Hollywood musical comedies, dies at 91 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Hilary Chaplain, a comedian in the Lucille Ball vein, and Will Shaw, a comic and juggler, will join them in “Showboat Circus,” an old-fashioned vaudevillian entertainment on Mr. Sharps’s equally old-fashioned boat. Spare Times for Children for June 29-July 5 2012-06-28T22:13:48Z Now imagine that traveling vaudevillians form the only real oases of culture in this wasteland. Theater Review: The End Is Near, Now Everybody Dance! 2011-02-12T02:50:56Z “Pizzazz” was satisfying media shorthand: it was fun to say, spangled in “Z”s, faintly vaudevillian—an anxious catchphrase that framed a serious subject. The Search for Pizzazz at the Impeachment Reality Show 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z “Even when she’s putting her spin on something,” he said, “it’s undetectable. She’s a subtle vaudevillian who knows how to play before a crowd, without letting her hand show.” Tammy Faye Starlite, Inverted Country-Star Cliché, Strides Back 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z It’s all somewhat vaudevillian, though not in an especially humorous way. ‘A Bid to Save the World’ at Source Festival In scenes staged with wavering style by Michole Biancosino, the relationship between the men moves from dramatic playlet to vaudevillian double act. Theater Review: ‘User’s Guide To Hell Featuring Bernard Madoff’ by Project Y 2013-09-09T21:37:18Z The new vaudevillians, like Bill Irwin and David Shiner who emerged in the 1980s and ’90s, aimed to reinvigorate clowning by deconstructing or winking at classic tropes. Make Way for the Carnal Clowns of Stand-Up 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z The period also included the brothers’ only real radio hit, an updating of “The Arkansas Traveler” called “How Far to Little Rock,” which incorporated the vaudevillian humor that was a part of their live sets. Ralph Stanley’s Inimitable Voice 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z It is a gentle, melancholy tale about an old-school vaudevillian magician and entertainer who finds that modern showbusiness is leaving him behind. What to see in summer 2010 2010-05-23T20:30:00Z He will be followed there Tuesday through June 27 by Tony Danza, a cheerful, charming vaudevillian who recently starred on Broadway in “Honeymoon in Vegas.” Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for June 12-18 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z They felt like hipply square vaudevillians, to be enjoyed only in fast, hit-and-run appearances. Review: In ‘Oh Hello,’ Sour and Crotchety Old Men at Their Best 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z To paraphrase the apocryphal vaudevillian on his deathbed: dying is easy, romantic is hard. Friends with Kids; Your Sister's Sister – review 2012-06-30T23:05:33Z “It’s almost like he’s from the old vaudevillian, British music hall tradition.” Inside David Byrne’s Cheerful Dystopia 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z 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 Between acts, draped flags rise and fall, accompanied by a musical score that adds a vaudevillian tone. The Plough and the Stars 2010-08-04T21:00:00Z You have almost these vaudevillian, even sometimes absurdist moments, and then you get to sandwich in these moments of heart. "I watched 'Night Court' with my grandmother": Melissa Rauch on reviving the comforting '80s comedy 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z After a successful run at last summer’s Capital Fringe Festival and a series of monthly shows at the Pinch in Columbia Heights, the vaudevillians are relocating to Dupont Circle’s Bier Baron Tavern. Young actor gets his big chance to be a song-and-dance man 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z But Moore isn’t the secret vaudevillian no one ever suspected him of being. Lost on Broadway: Michael Moore's 'The Terms of My Surrender' is a well-meaning misfire 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Their program, “Summertime Swing,” was an old-fashioned variety show, blending standards with Catskill humor, celebrity impersonations and other vaudevillian shenanigans. Review: Warmth of the American Songbook, From 2 Keepers of the Flame 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z He delivered this last line in a vaudevillian purr, with a smirk. The R.N.C. on TV: Ivanka’s Weaponized Graciousness 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z “We’re trying to heighten hypnosis from a vaudevillian show into the theatrical level,” Mecci said in the Times Square office of his producer, a day after the performance I attended. You Are Getting Sleepy. When You Wake Up, You Will Be an Improv Star. 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Outfitted as a one-man band, David Melville’s banjo-strumming Feste the Clown transitions the expansive Old Zoo lawn from picnic to theatrical environs with an opening vaudevillian mix of song and satire. Independent Shakespeare Company's 'Twelfth Night' opens at Griffith Park 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z It was while she was working as a vaudevillian actress that she met and fell for Cukor, and her future was set on its inevitable course. A Glamorous Home in the Hollywood Hills 2014-01-28T05:00:00Z Pandemic humor is built into the staging — during the vaudevillian number “All for the Best,” Jesus and Judas brandish yardsticks, rather than canes, and measure the distance between them. ‘Godspell’ in 2020: Masks, Partitions and a Contactless Crucifixion 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z The show’s great ensemble piece, the vaudevillian “Yellow Shoes,” is a little masterpiece of sardonic efficiency in its use of color in motion. Review: Chita Rivera Stars in Kander and Ebb’s ‘The Visit’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Her vaudevillian style remains in her live act. Snapshot: Paloma Faith Releases ‘Fall to Grace’ in America 2012-11-29T15:22:41Z This adds a touch of vaudevillian slapstick, but the suggestion that women’s relationships with men are often just gentler forms of obliteration is not exactly funny. Art Review: Sanja Ivekovic?s ?Sweet Violence? at Museum of Modern Art - Review 2011-12-15T23:26:19Z And more traditional Broadway razzmatazz for an almost vaudevillian Uncle Fester. 'The Addams Family' mines macabre musical comedy 2010-04-08T23:05:00Z For some, the evening’s high point was a deadpan rendition of a comic obscurity by Sidney Myer, a beloved latter-day vaudevillian and New York nightclub manager. Review: The New York Cabaret Convention Branches Out 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Simultaneously, they partially enact the scenes, in a heightened, almost vaudevillian style. Dubliners – review 2012-10-01T17:14:54Z When it came out the rhymed narrative was, literally, banned in Boston for its depiction of a licentious vaudevillian couple who throw a bash that ends in an eruption of jealousy and murder. Good bets for summer theater in Seattle 2013-08-01T21:37:37Z She soon becomes a media spectacle, thanks to her sleazy lawyer, Billy Flynn; but her husband, Amos, and the vaudevillian, Velma Kelly — in the same jail as Roxie for double homicide — are none too pleased. ‘Chicago’ Pops the Cork on 25 Years of Razzle Dazzle 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The Saucier book credited the DAC as the source of the drink and mentioned a well-known vaudevillian, Frank Fogarty, as having introduced it around New York. The born-in-Detroit cocktail that has spawned countless variations 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z As more and more comedic vaudevillians began to performing material “in one” — that is, standing alone on a stage — the free-wheeling rules of the past no longer fit. 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 Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian It's not over until the bearded lady sings in this vaudevillian nightmare that occupies the yawning gap left in Edinburgh by the departure of La Clique. Smoke and Mirrors 2010-08-18T20:30:00Z Mr. Irwin performs his own “He Built This,” a piece very much in his dramatic mode, as opposed to his vaudevillian one. Review: 5 Short Plays, Up-Close and Unsettled, Purposely 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Working overtime to make an entertaining spectacle out of the Texas energy company’s world-rattling implosion in the early 21st century, “Enron” digs deep into the vaudevillian’s trunk. | 'Enron': At the Broadhurst Theater, Revisiting a Scandal 2010-04-28T02:26:00Z Today’s cocktail lovers want drinks in which the base spirit is a talented lead, not a shrill vaudevillian who needs to be smothered under a frippery of sweet juice and coconut. Can the piña colada be saved from syrupy flavors and sappy lyrics? 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z As the band warmed the stage for gypsy rockers Gogol Bordello on Friday at the 9:30 Club, it started its set with what sounded like a spooky vaudevillian organ. Chicano Batman wins over crowds with unique, psychedelic sound 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Laurel, the British vaudevillian who successfully made the transition from the silent era to talking pictures, is the center of the story but his name is never mentioned. Imagining the Unhappy Life of Stan Laurel 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z First up is “Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host,” a witty, vaudevillian show from Ira Glass, the host of “This American Life,” and the choreographer Monica Bill Barnes. 50 Essential Summer Festivals 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z In Pee-wee, Reubens created a timeless, ageless friend you can't help but love — asexual, bawdy and queer in one package, whose tastes are both cutting edge and retro vaudevillian. Through Pee-wee Herman, Paul Reubens reminded Gen X to stay true to our immature inner children 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Graae, a Lyrics & Lyricists regular, is a natural vaudevillian clown, whose boyish energy seems sprung from an inner catapult that keeps reloading. Music Review: ?Makin? Whoopee,? at the 92nd Street Y - Review 2012-01-11T00:01:05Z Herriman’s vaudevillian tales of Coconino County show us not only how we continually fail to understand one another, but also how, nonetheless, we may ultimately find meaning in one another. The Gender Fluidity of Krazy Kat 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Merritt's musical sensibility — an eclectic mix of the penumbral and vaudevillian — may be just the right fit for the occasion. June 9 at SIFF: '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,' with a live score 2010-06-08T22:36:00Z That’s because, as her vaudevillian partner points out, the female of the species “was formed from a bent rib.” Review: ‘Vinegar Tom’ and ‘Judith’ Examine Woman as Myth 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z That vaudevillian public disdain for East Coast intellectuals, Ivy League blue bloods, cosmopolites — all of it started with Nixon. ‘Richard Nixon,’ Portrait of a Thin-Skinned, Media-Hating President 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z “We started discussing these old vaudevillian actors and some of the routines, and how this should be entertaining in its own right — not a token gesture.” Vaudeville Authenticity at the Metropolitan Opera 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z “It takes 20 years to make an overnight success,” as Eddie Cantor, the old vaudevillian, put it. Viola Davis and Edie Falco Talk Race, Sex and Life Before Stardom 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Her third piece is better; it imbues the same theme of presence/absence with the vaudevillian spirit of her earlier performances. Art in Review 2010-03-04T22:24:00Z This never quite happens, as the production settles into a more well-worn groove, abounding in this director’s trademark vaudevillian touches: men pulling off wigs and dancing in skirts, the works. A Festival Has a Monumental Premiere (and Some Other Operas, Too) 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z His version of “Lonesome Swallow,” a signature song for Ethel Waters, whom Short championed, was a tour de force of vaudevillian blues. Music Review: ‘Tribute to Bobby Short’ at Lincoln Center 2013-05-16T19:53:55Z Juggling, spinning plates – all of those vaudevillian analogies apply. Elvis Costello: ‘Believing you’re being watched is no longer fantasy’ 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and the Three Stooges knew this, and so does the vaudevillian troupe Parallel Exit. Around Town for Children for Aug. 2-8 2013-08-01T22:28:16Z I’m assuming this is where the vaudevillian transubstantiation took place: body into box. Cake and death: Why we need to get together and talk about dying 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Anxious to be the first to cross the Atlantic, Charles Lindbergh fights off an array of competitors who trade vaudevillian turns. | 'Take Flight': Musical About Early Aviators at McCarter Theater 2010-05-23T22:45:00Z His father, John Lucas, was a vaudevillian who made a name for himself as Rosey the Singing Barber. Joe E. Tata, Peach Pit Owner in ‘Beverly Hills, 90210,’ Dies at 85 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Two special guests, Don Correia and Sandy Duncan, recreated “A Couple of Swells,” the vaudevillian turn of Astaire and Judy Garland from the 1948 musical “Easter Parade.” Review: ‘All Dancing! All Singing! Irving Berlin in Hollywood,’ a Lighter-Than-Air Revue 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Make debates come across as vaudevillian, And you can’t help but stare Right at Donald Trump’s hair And wish for a topside Brazilian. Style Invitational Week 1140: Give us a bad name 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z This relaxed, strolling minstrel evoked a stream of folksy vaudevillians, from Will Rogers through Guthrie and beyond. Music Review: ?Songs of America? at the 92nd Street Y 2012-02-14T22:26:54Z His life in entertainment — as a busker tapping for pennies, a vaudevillian, song-and-dance man, comedy tap dancer bringing that black vernacular style to Broadway — is iconic, representative of his time. Harold J. Cromer, Stumpy of Vaudeville Duo Stump and Stumpy, Dies 2013-06-14T02:30:50Z The vaudevillian scene performed as part of that shoot seems incongruous, but there you have it: In this ballet, it’s the small, odd details that stand out. Review: Romeo and Juliet Leap to 1960s Hong Kong 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Designed by the Brooklyn firm Hecho, Flash Factory is selling itself as a “homage to an era of vaudevillian eccentricity and Victorian decadence.” Flash Factory, a New Techno Music Club, Takes a Populist Approach 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Current residents include veterans the world of stage and screen, including actors, vaudevillians, Ziegfeld Follies dancers, comedians, band leaders and set designers. 'The Audience' to be shown in NJ nursing home 2013-05-17T16:05:12Z As one half of a vaudevillian double act with Danny DeVito, briefly united and bound together by mutual loathing, Griffiths made the precise placement of a chair seem a matter of cosmic significance. Richard Griffiths obituary 2013-03-29T16:52:59Z The show was a risky venture, with a largely unknown cast that included the vaudevillian Jack Albertson and Irene Dailey as the parents and a young Martin Sheen as the son. Frank D. Gilroy, playwright of Pulitzer-winning ‘The Subject Was Roses,’ dies at 89 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z His vaudevillian background lent his performances a casual animal grace and sense of timing that gave every subterfuge an innate elegance. The Week Ahead: July 4 ? 10 2010-07-01T16:02:00Z Mortensen, plump as a mortadella, doesn’t so much transcend the ethnic clichés of the role as chew through them, emerging into a zone of vaudevillian poetry. ‘Green Book’ Review: A Road Trip Through a Land of Racial Clichés 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z With slapstick and broad, vaudevillian humor, they parody the random illogic and racism of a world where people were killed just for being Jewish. Review: 'The Last Cyclist' is an affecting fable 2013-05-31T00:19:17Z The intelligentsia of their era embraced the knockabout vaudevillians and basked in their company. The movie Salvador Dali wanted to make with the Marx Brothers didn’t happen – until now (sort of) 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Actually, it may be the other way around, with the festival’s vaudevillian spirit taking over the city. Moisture Fest, celebrating 10th anniversary, dazzles, delights 2013-03-22T19:08:56Z Cloying accordion music is played; stilts, funny hats and other vaudevillian props are deployed; brightly patterned parasols are twirled. Theater Review: ‘Not by Bread Alone’ at the N.Y.U. Skirball Center 2013-01-18T23:41:49Z Then Tom McCarthy, a recent Yale grad, met Dinklage when the actor portrayed Tom Thumb in a vaudevillian play McCarthy directed and co-wrote. Peter Dinklage Was Smart to Say No 2012-03-31T23:17:15Z Mr. Vereen — like Liza Minnelli, who was present — is one of the last old-school vaudevillian troupers still standing, and an entertainer with a capital E. No matter what happens, the show must go on. Music Review: Ben Vereen at 54 Below 2012-07-12T21:50:07Z That track’s whimsical, vaudevillian video is worth viewing. Pop & Rock Listings for May 2-8 2014-05-01T21:55:59Z He ended his career in an almost vaudevillian gesture of ignominy, tweaking the nose of a male nurse who refused to remove a patient’s nasogastric tube. A Surgeon Not Afraid to Face His Mistakes, In and Out of the Operating Room 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Far from being a flashy distraction, the play's vaudevillian style is a visual embodiment of the dream-like illusion to which the Texan energy giant, and similar corporations, surrendered. Enron's failure shows Broadway's flaws 2010-05-05T12:30:00Z Despite the family’s tight budget, the Caldwells were regular theater-goers, she wrote, and “I saw every singer, dancer, actor, or vaudevillian who came to Melbourne.” Actress Zoe Caldwell, Tony winner for ‘Medea,’ dies at 86 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Garland, a child vaudevillian, was at the start of her movie career, and would soon become a star with “The Wizard of Oz.” Judy Garland’s Hollywood Unravelling, Through the Eyes of Her Husband and Producer Sid Luft 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Louis Kavouras, chairman of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas dance department, described Ms. Becket’s shows as vaudevillian, an assemblage of brief dramatic and comedic pieces, but always with a strange and contemporary twist. Marta Becket, dancer in the desert, dies at 92 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Here, he shows a graceful fluency in both the romantic and vaudevillian styles of the World War I era, neatly matched by Patrick McCollum’s period choreography. Review: Lies of Love and Memory Swirl Through ‘Unknown Soldier’ 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z The system wasn’t working when I visited, but it promises a high-tech whimsy unusual in Ripley’s, a vaudevillian monument to the bizarre. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 8-14 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z The vaudevillian, throw-everything-at-the-wall approach may reflect the creators’ sensibilities, or the need to fill a little over five hours of running time. Review: Taking Another Spooky Hike Up ‘Hanging Rock’ 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Steve Martin couldn't have found a sharper contrast to his own loopy vaudevillian vehicles than the lead in the grim 1981 film version of Dennis Potter's Pennies From Heaven. Adam Sandler: goofy chipmunk known for fart jokes has a serious side too 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z “Goodnight Ladies” and “Hello, Hello” share a vaudevillian vibe and an outdated sensibility that were apt bookends for this finale. Vin Scelsa Leaves the Airwaves 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z It all changed when he played Tom Thumb in writer-director Tom McCarthy’s vaudevillian stage production. Peter Dinklage: ‘Tyrion has a sense of humour'’ 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z Sometimes the cast give sketch-show caricatures where the script calls for New York brashness, but more typically, they bring a very funny vaudevillian energy. Valhalla! 2010-07-12T20:31:00Z His humor may often be as vaudevillian as Mr. Brooks’s — and on occasion, as frantic — but he usually weaves it into the fabric of exasperating, everyday life. Theater Review: Woody Allen Transforms His ‘Bullets Over Broadway’ 2014-04-11T02:00:16Z It’s not just the press who are engaged in an awkward song and dance — Stashower shows how the hunt for the Torso Killer prompted dark, vaudevillian activities by the Cleveland police. The Killer Who Terrorized Cleveland — and Spurred It to Change 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z The reason “Night Boat to Tangier” works is that Maurice and Charlie are vivid company on the page, a couple of battered and slightly sinister vaudevillians on a late-career mental walkabout. Two Lifetime Crooks Wait for a Missing Daughter, With Shades of Beckett 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z The show’s vaudevillian patchwork of stories about volatile 19th- and 20th-century misfits who murdered a president, or tried to, makes us laugh and leaves us humming. Review: This Revival of Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’ Misses Its Mark 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z For his contribution to the gala, Vereen staged an homage to the legendary black vaudevillian Bert Williams, one of the most popular entertainers of the early twentieth century. Revisiting Ben Vereen’s Misunderstood Blackface Inaugural Performance 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z He also played a hard-boiled radio station owner in “Memphis” and showed fine vaudevillian chops in “On the Twentieth Century” singing “Five Zeros,” an ode to the joys of money. Tony Award-winner Michael McGrath, mourned as ‘adorable, mischievous, brilliant,’ dies at 65 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z Likewise, she has never experienced the vaudevillian atmosphere of the Last Night, with all its flamboyant costumes and communal singalongs. Lise Davidsen on singing at the Last Night Of The Proms, one year late 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z Reboot Theatre, which approaches its productions with an air of joyful experimentation, seems a perfect fit for this play with music about self-discovery, community and humor so broad it veers into the vaudevillian. Best bets for Seattle theater in September 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z Kotula emerges onstage, vaudevillian charm doing numbers on the Richter scale as she introduces us to her Dolly, a brassy, sassy woman-about-town whose work as a matchmaker sits atop a pile of side hustles. In Village Theatre’s ‘Hello, Dolly!’ the star razzle dazzles 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Her Magical Marionette Theater also starred the Amazing Puppenini, "the last of the great vaudevillians, master magician and violinist." COVID comes home: My sister Rachel Patricia Hennelly, 1960-2022 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Other early musical influences included vaudevillian Al Jolson and country singers Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams — a trio of performers he referred to as the “three great song stylists.” Jerry Lee Lewis, unbridled early rocker, dies at 87 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Bottom’s acting troupe, meanwhile, provides low comedy of the highest order, as the bickering performers rehearse their play with a heaping dose of vaudevillian slapstick. Review | ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ still casts a spell at Synetic Theater 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Certainly, many vaudevillians made a successful leap to film — Astaire, Ginger Rogers, George Burns, to name a few — and there were Black artists among them. Review | Michael Jackson and Bob Fosse owe their moves to a man called Bubbles 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z “I was, like, this strange, vaudevillian child,” she says. ‘Starstruck’ is Rose Matafeo’s love letter to love stories 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z The company’s first play, “Women in Violence,” was a vaudevillian clown show that addressed the abuse of women, something that she and her sisters had all endured. The Native American Bohemia in Brownstone Brooklyn 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z A grandchild of traveling vaudevillians, she never felt as though she was doing something beneath her. The Writer Who Brought Real-Life Brooklyn to Soap Operas 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Act 3, scene 3 starts with Iago caught off-guard and spouting vaudevillian nonsense about “Cassio slapping a leg on me” and ends with Othello and Iago accomplices in murder. Feedback: Times coverage of 'Rust' shooting tragedy 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Duchess’ father, a peripatetic vaudevillian actor, abandoned him at an orphanage. Amor Towles follows 2 brothers on an epic road trip in fine new novel ‘The Lincoln Highway’ 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Embracing the spirit of Old Comedy, Matt Walker, who adapted and directed this madcap update set in Malibu, encourages his troupe to pull out all the vaudevillian stops. Review: Liza plus Aristophanes equals the bedazzling camp of 'Lizastrata' at the Getty Villa 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z The Museum of Modern Art found some footage in their own archives a few years ago, featuring Bert Williams, the vaudevillian who wore blackface. Make film history more inclusive. That's Jacqueline Stewart's mandate at Academy Museum 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Webster, an influential early-20th-century cartoonist of vaudevillian characters like Caspar Milquetoast. For 20 years, Shary Flenniken of Seattle lampooned her hometown in hilarious comic ‘Trots and Bonnie’ 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Walter’s research also unearthed a raucous vaudevillian streak in the Old West town, where men wrestled with horses before live audiences. How Jess Walter went from Hollywood satirist to Steinbeck's modern heir 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z The problem with Johnson’s vaudevillian performance was that this regulation was written by the British government. Opinion | Authoritarianism and the politics of emotion 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z But as the daughter of Scottish vaudevillians, she was already acquainted with singing, acting and life on the road. Annie Ross, mainstay of ‘the greatest jazz vocal group that ever was,’ dies at 89 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z A vaudevillian and his bride go to Paris and set trends as famous ballroom dancers. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, July 12, 2020 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Lahr, a leading burlesque and vaudevillian star, went on to have success in Broadway musical comedies. Bert Lahr's daughter says 'The Wizard of Oz' actor was 'a sweet hermit who didn't talk too much' 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z Her parents split up when she was young and Andrews moved with her mother and new stepfather, Ted Andrews, a vaudevillian, to what she has described as a “slum” area of London. Julie Andrews: 'I was certainly aware of tales about the casting couch' 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z An elevator operator, a vaudevillian and a violinist’s wife cope with sudden fame as chorus girls. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Mar. 22, 2020 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Puppets and dummies — gifts from his grandfather, a vaudevillian — and a poster for the 1953 film “The Clown” decorated the space. Down on his luck in Hollywood, David Arquette wrestles with his demons to prove he's no joke 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Despite the family's tight budget, the Caldwells were regular theater-goers, she wrote, and "I saw every singer, dancer, actor, or vaudevillian who came to Melbourne." Zoe Caldwell, 4-time Tony Award winner, dead at 86 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z “You have to remember when they made that movie, they gathered the very best talent in Hollywood at that moment, but my dad and the others were basically middle-aged vaudevillians,” Jane said. Bert Lahr's daughter says 'The Wizard of Oz' actor was 'a sweet hermit who didn't talk too much' 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z The incongruity of this salt’n’pepper-bearded, chain-smoking, vaguely vaudevillian figure, and an audience of saucer-eyed young ravers conditioned to expect something different as their DJ hero of the weekend, was part of the fun. Andrew Weatherall: 10 of his greatest tracks 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z “She Loves Me” may be farcical but it doesn’t have the vaudevillian metabolism of “Hello, Dolly!” Review: With 'She Loves Me,' South Coast Rep serves up an imperfect but pleasurable treat 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Aim a camera at a print of pointed black and white geometries and vaudevillian Bill “Bojangles” Robinson emerges. Why artist Hank Willis Thomas smashed up 'The Dukes of Hazzard's' General Lee 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Dark-haired and stocky, with olive skin that offset his gray-blue eyes, Skalnik had a wide, expressive face that was malleable like an actor’s, registering emotions with almost vaudevillian embellishment. How This Con Man’s Wild Testimony Sent Dozens to Jail, and 4 to Death Row 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z A singing-and-dancing orphan shows broke vaudevillians how to put on a show. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z In contrast, Derbez’s slapsticky style is practically vaudevillian, or even rodeo clownish, as he pulls faces and subjects his body to humiliation. Review: ‘Dora and the Lost City of Gold’ gives us the Latinx heroine we need right now 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Among the hopefuls: the Chris & Paul Show, a pair described as “modern vaudevillians.” Sexy dramas, big-money games, Ailes film heat up summer TV 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z Early black actors, singers and vaudevillians were forced to don blackface as well if they wished to perform for more lucrative white audiences. AP Explains: Racist history of blackface began in the 1830s 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z It is decidedly vaudevillian, dealing in pratfalls, toilet humour and amped-up stereotypes. How Mrs Brown's Boys became a critic-proof hit 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z From 1985 almost to the end of his life, he put on vaudevillian musical revues up and down the Cape, using, for the most part, nonprofessional actors. Edward Gorey’s Enigmatic World 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Born Joseph Frank Keaton in 1895 to traveling vaudevillian parents, he learned physical comedy through time spent being flung around on stage as part of the Keaton family act. ‘The Great Buster’ takes us through the career of legendary silent-movie comedian Buster Keaton 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Keaton famously began working with his vaudevillian parents as a tiny tot, becoming the essential element of a Three Keatons act that involved so much rough physical comedy that it’s amazing that Buster survived intact. Review: Get an authoritative look at silent star Buster Keaton in 'The Great Buster: A Celebration' - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Austen’s writing is witty, finding humor in human shortcomings, not to be played in a vaudevillian style for big laughs. Calendar Letters: TV show doesn’t reflect Hawaii - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z Euromaidan was organic, and the bill of fare changed daily — just as it does at the nightly White House protest, giving it a vaudevillian flavor. Mixing protest and party, nightly ‘Kremlin Annex’ rally outside the White House reaches its third week 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Treason, frankly, sounds a little high-minded for such a reckless, clueless vaudevillian. Opinion | It’s time to excise the Trump cancer 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Rob McClure, however, as the man who leads us through the show, wins a call-out, especially for his vaudevillian turn, crisp and loving, in the song “I Still Get Jealous” from “High Button Shoes.” ‘Jerome Robbins’ Broadway’ Review: The Great White Way Takes St. Louis 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z A self-styled Cherokee cowboy turned lariat-twirling vaudevillian, he told jokes, most of them political, in between rope tricks, blandly assuring his listeners that “all I know is what I read in the papers.” ‘The Will Rogers Follies’ Review: Return of the Singing Cowboy 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z It fell to variety, that old vaudevillian, to engage the real world, and to reflect it: Currency, if not necessarily topicality, mattered in variety. Watching 'The Smothers Brothers,' 'Laugh-In' and the Democratic National Convention 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Ronald Reagan came closest to Lincoln in his skill as a raconteur, but his critics saw his humor as a vaudevillian substitute for thought. Lincoln Wasn’t Handsome, but He Had a Great Sense of Humor 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z Sir Bruce played her tough vaudevillian father, and the film was nominated for seven Oscars - although none were for Sir Bruce's acting. Sir Bruce Forsyth: 8 little-known facts about his career - BBC News 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z “My feeling was they took me out of a Shakespeare play to make me act with this drunken vaudevillian?! And of course, that’s now a classic! Very few people remember Max Reinhardt and his plays.” Jean Rouverol, blacklisted screenwriter, dead at 100 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z The pair is at once idiosyncratic and archetypal, in a vaudevillian kind of way. Letter of Recommendation: ‘Pinky and the Brain’ 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z In Osbourne’s writing, Archie is indeed a swiftly fading performer — far more vaudevillian than Shakespearean — whose pomp upon the dais is far outweighed by the mess of his domestic life. THEATER REVIEW: ‘The Entertainer’ on West End tour-de-force for Branagh in lackluster play 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z His talents made him something of a vaudevillian throwback: a deft comic actor who could sing, dance, ad-lib and generally steal anything he was in. Late-Night Redefined: James Corden 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z There's something almost vaudevillian about Ben Stiller's brand of comedy performance. Zoolander 2 just can't relax 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z I’m one of those really fortunate theatre people in that I’ve actually worked consistently for the last 30 years in front of different kinds of audiences, trooping around like a vaudevillian.” In Groucho's Club: 30 years of playing a Marx brother 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Yet his latest album marks a return to his roots as a vaudevillian rock star. Sir Elton John: 'My album is happy because I'm happy' - BBC News 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z To test the unit, Mr. Cumella removed the needle apparatus and sang through the tone arm in a vaudevillian twang, “Yes sir, that’s my baby.” A Gramophone D.J. Cranks Up the Volume 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Her hosting persona, with its vaudevillian thirstiness and orchestrated nip slips, reminded me of Mama Bazoom from Showgirls, which should be a compliment but somehow is not. Miley Cyrus just torpedoed her own career, and MTV helped 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Trump’s range as a performer is often described as vaudevillian, and that description should be applied to his world view as well. The Trump Doctrine: "We Want Deal" 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z But the series rejects realism, mining instead an outrageousness that verges on the vaudevillian. The Rise of Do-Gooder TV 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z “Pagliacci” is done in a pretty Technicolor palette, and the ill-fated travelling troupe takes the form not of a commedia-dell’arte outfit but of a ragtag band of vaudevillians, who specialize in pie-in-the-face routines. A Pie-in-the-Face “Pagliacci” 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Mark Linn-Baker and Michael McGrath display fine vaudevillian chops as Oscar’s longtime sidekicks, especially when they sing “Five Zeros,” an ode to the joys of money. Theater: Chenoweth soars in manic ‘On the Twentieth Century’ 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z It turns the game into a vaudevillian slapstick, with players sprinting through spaces meant for slowness and tension. Resident Evil review: Still suffering beautifully after all these years 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Twenty-five years after unveiling its first piano-playing chickens, vaudevillian babies and backyard trampoline bumblers — and nine years after YouTube seemingly ate its lunch — “America’s Funniest Home Videos” is still going strong, and more. ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos’ Turns 25 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Like a chorus of old vaudevillians, the people who were asked to explain the recent influx of Dutch design all used the same word: timing. The Dutch Are Back in Town 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, Mr. Baker moved around the room with the slapstick style of a vaudevillian comedian. A Treasure House of Yiddish Prepares to Close 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z The lyrics, by an Irish immigrant vaudevillian, Charles B. Lawlor, were about his young playmates. Belmont Park Hopes Old Song Will Break Triple Crown Drought 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z The emcee at a raucous little place called the Bandits’ Roost, he works with vaudevillians and a flock of female entertainers he calls “my doves.” ‘The Immigrant’ movie review His star career was over at 25; in the postwar Hollywood landscape, heroes were streaked by guilt and doom, and the bumptious vaudevillian found few people who wanted to put on his kind of show. The Long and the Short of Mickey Rooney 2014-04-07T20:56:20Z It was George M. Cohan, son of Irish immigrant vaudevillians, who wrote "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "You're a Grand Old Flag." A Nation Built for Immigrants 2013-09-21T03:26:11Z During the dawn of television, the first programming was primarily vaudevillian comedy and variety shows. Hollywood Producer Bryan Singer Discusses The Opportunities In Online Entertainment And H+ 2012-08-24T13:38:47Z He worked as a jockey, circus clown, boxer and vaudevillian before settling on art collecting. Portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln Is Deemed a Hoax 2012-02-11T19:31:35Z He can do a double take, or time a gesture, with the precision of a vaudevillian. Star Art Knight Allen Lambastes Fake Divas, Divos: Interview 2012-01-23T03:10:08Z Mr. Parker himself referred to a “vaudevillian amalgam” with overtones of Fred Astaire, Buster Keaton and Merce Cunningham. City Room: 2 'Nutcrackers,' One Apartment 2011-11-13T19:00:10Z At 94, Lewis boasts she was "born into show business" and mentored by vaudevillian Sophie Tucker. Seniors shine at pageant 2011-09-01T19:00:06Z Despite their carnage, one senses an almost vaudevillian jauntiness to the endless cycle of life as depicted on the mosaic floor. A Dining Room's Feast for the Eyes 2011-01-18T01:46:58Z Because he was quiet, skittish around whites, and looked nonchalant in the outfield, white sportswriters took to calling him "Stepin Fetchit" after the Negro vaudevillian who engaged in loopy, stereotypical antics for a paycheck. Book review: 'The Last Hero: A Life of Hank Aaron,' by Howard Bryant 2010-05-23T04:00:00Z One day as we were all sitting in the office, a large group of vaudevillians, song-writers, singers, a chance remark gave rise to a subsequent practical joke at Paul's expense. Twelve Men The dream of every vaudevillian is to be booked for fifty-two unbroken weeks in the year, but few attain such popularity. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 He possesses a stage presence that would be the envy of most theatrical performers and feels a link to vaudevillians of years past. Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software To the vaudevillian scenery is a business investment. Writing for Vaudeville Though, heaven knows, the inside of a moving box-car has few jocose features, except in the imagination of humorous artist or vaudevillian! Bruce One afternoon Bob Hart presented his solvent, serious, well-known vaudevillian face at the box-office window of a rival attraction and got his d. h. coupon for an orchestra seat. Strictly business: more stories of the four million Originally coined as a word of reproach against vaudeville, it has lost its sting and is used by vaudevillians as well as legitimate actors and managers. Writing for Vaudeville "Try and then buy," is the average vaudevillian's motto. Writing for Vaudeville With the warm-heartedness for which vaudevillians are famous, nearly everyone whose aid I asked lent assistance gladly. Writing for Vaudeville |
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