Vaudeville (/ ˈ v ɔː d (ə) v ɪ l, ˈ v oʊ-/; [1] French: ⓘ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France at the end of the 19th century. [2] A Vaudeville was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a dramatic composition or light poetry, interspersed with songs ...

2025年2月27日 · The term vaudeville, adopted in the United States from the Parisian boulevard theatre, is probably a corruption of vaux-de-vire, satirical songs in couplets, sung to popular airs in the 15th century in the Val-de-Vire (Vau-de-Vire), Normandy, France.

2024年3月31日 · Vaudeville was a form of variety entertainment that was popular in the United States and Canada from the late 19th century into the early 20th century. It was characterized by a series of...

Vaudeville was America’s first big-time show business, a coast to coast enterprise that at its height reached as many as 5000 theatres and employed as many as 50,000 people full- or part-time as entertainers and a nearly equal number in related business and crafts.

2013年11月13日 · Vaudeville has a lifespan in the U.S. and Canada of about 50 years, starting in the 1880s and ending in the 1930s. It became the place where entertainers from around the world could make it big with 10 minutes of stage brilliance, buffoonery, or bombastics.

2023年11月21日 · Learn the vaudeville definition along with the history, how the vaudeville worked, acts, music, and era. Updated: 11/21/2023. What is Vaudeville? In the late 19th and early 20th centuries,...

By the 1890s the vaudeville world was composed of empires and smaller fiefdoms in which performers were pawn in the moguls’ fight to monopolize and the independent’s struggle to survive.

1999年10月8日 · Vaudeville was a fusion of centuries-old cultural traditions, including the English Music Hall, minstrel shows of antebellum America, and Yiddish theater. Though certainly not free from the...

A brief overview of the history of Vaudeville, excerpted from Vaudeville Old and New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performances in America, by Frank Cullen, Florence Hackman, and Donald McNeilly.

VAUDEVILLE was for many years the major entertainment business in Cleveland. It was essentially, "variety theater" and it was the dominant form of entertainment in the nation before cinema, radio, and television. In 1900 there were more than 2,000 vaudeville houses in the US. The industry employed tens of thousands of performers, and the only ...