vaudeville

Examples of vaudeville in the following topics:

• Vaudeville

  • Vaudeville is a term encompassing a wide range of entertainment forms popular from the 1830s to the early 1930s.
  • A vaudeville performer is often referred to as a vaudevillian.
  • At its height, vaudeville played across multiple strata of economic class and auditorium size.
  • The usual date given for the "birth" of vaudeville is October 24, 1881 at New York's Fourteenth Street Theater, when Pastor famously staged the first bill of self-proclaimed "clean" vaudeville in New York City.
  • There was no abrupt end to vaudeville, though the form was clearly sagging by the late 1920s.

• Cheap Amusements

  • Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment popular in the United States and Canada from the 1830s until the early 1930s.
  • A vaudeville performer is often referred to as a "vaudevillian."
  • Vaudeville had many influences, including the concert saloon, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque.
  • At its height, vaudeville played to various economic classes and an in a variety of venues.
  • On the vaudeville circuit, it was said that if an act would succeed in Peoria, Illinois, it would work anywhere.

• Saloon Culture

  • The concert saloon was an American copy of the English music hall, and the forerunner of the variety and vaudeville theater.
  • The concert saloon, an American copy of the English music hall, was the forerunner of the variety and vaudeville theater.
  • It involved a mixture of contemporary songs, comedy, specialty acts and variety entertainment, much like the American vaudeville entertainment that surfaced in ensuing years.

• Minstrel Shows

  • By the turn of the twentieth century, the minstrel show enjoyed but a shadow of its former popularity, having been replaced for the most part by vaudeville.

• Automobiles, Airplanes, Mass Production, and Assembly-Line Progress

  • Hollywood also boomed, producing a new form of entertainment that shut down the old Vaudeville theatres – the silent film.

• The Culture of the Roaring Twenties

  • The movie industry skyrocketed in the 1920s and Hollywood boomed, providing a new and accessible form of entertainment that proved to be the death of vaudeville.

• Cinema

  • By the end of the decade, cinema had changed significantly with major leaps in technology that marked the Golden Age of Hollywood and ended the era of the silent film, which itself had ended the previous, widespread popularity of Vaudeville Theater.

• The Roaring Twenties

  • Hollywood also boomed during this period, producing a new form of entertainment that shut down the old Vaudeville theatres – the silent film.

• Conclusion: Cultural Change in the Interwar Period

  • Hollywood boomed during this time, producing a new form of entertainment that shut down the old Vaudeville theatres – the silent film.