But his rise recalls an older American tradition: vaudeville shows.
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A sexy Vaudeville dancer who died falling off a stage?
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Booth compares it to the overblown movements of vaudeville actors.
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ALL THAT JAZZ I love shopping at Trash and Vaudeville.
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Her mother, the former Mary McDonough, was a vaudeville performer.
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She isn't wrong, but the nonstop vaudeville can get wearying.
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Its British premiere is at the Vaudeville Theater through June 11.
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Non-U.S. oil producers have become like a traveling vaudeville act.
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This Film Forum series is also a broader celebration of vaudeville.
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She wandered the streets, visited saloons and theaters and vaudeville shows.
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But if you have to categorize it, just call it vaudeville.
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My grandfather was a Golden Gloves boxer who got into vaudeville.
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In The Opry House, Mickey puts on a big vaudeville show.
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She met and married Frank Fay, a famous vaudeville star, in 1928.
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This is good — reboots run the risk of becoming "special appearance" vaudeville.
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In the early 1900s, the Palace Theater became the epicenter of vaudeville.
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Munson took to vaudeville, where her performances included "provocative" costumes and dances.
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Vaudeville got him off the streets, and eventually Broadway and Hollywood called.
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The show was first produced by Atomic Vaudeville in Victoria, British Columbia.
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Century-old vaudeville and minstrel posters plaster walls in the light booth.
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She had needed to walk out of the vaudeville show that night.
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In Empire, Han Solo and C-3PO are basically doing a vaudeville routine.
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If femininity is performance, Miss Meatface is a gaudy, shocking vaudeville of contrasts.
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Special thanks to Ritual Vintage, Resurrection Vintage, Trash and Vaudeville, and Tokio 7.
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Vaudeville was the only thing I knew so I tried to break in.
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Josephine Baker was arguably the first, reinterpreting blackface comedy and American vaudeville tropes.
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"The Spirit of Vaudeville," musical variety show with Richard Stillman and Flip Peters.
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This is a piece of political theater, political vaudeville, really it was pathetic.
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Berezovsky sings a vaudeville number; the origins of polonium are outlined in verse.
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At night, Newman said Ford performed in vaudeville, singing songs and telling jokes.
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Paul and Neil entered, playing buffoons in an over-the-top near-vaudeville style.
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There are reasons to credit this as more than just amusingly strained political vaudeville.
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He, too, knew how to play; he had worked alongside Jack Benny in vaudeville.
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His father was a vaudeville performer whose own career had its ups and downs.
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Popular influences come to the fore: vaudeville tunes, circus marches, cabaret, Iberian dances, ragtime.
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WATCHUNG "The Spirit of Vaudeville," musical variety show with Richard Stillman and Flip Peters.
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She subsequently prospered as a touring stand-up comic in vaudeville houses and nightclubs.
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Out of respect for vaudeville tradition, he keeps a rubber chicken in his pocket.
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Mr. Richmond loves vaudeville, and he wanted the excitement of those kinds of performances.
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Created by early filmmakers like the French brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière and the American inventor Thomas Edison, these early movies took cues from the circus and the vaudeville circuit, featuring performers from that world, and were then played at vaudeville shows.
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The women sing every song in harmony and their sound is "punk vaudeville," Mullally adds.
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On the other hand, the hillbilly vaudeville gives us something to watch and respond to.
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They couldn't be, they say, rooted as they are in the populist traditions of vaudeville.
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The vaudeville music also aptly evokes the antebellum roots of today's modern prison industrial complex.
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From there, Sawyer started doing a comedy act, performing on the Vaudeville circuit and nightclubs.
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She was born in Los Angeles on July 23, 1925, to parents who were vaudeville performers.
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As Judy got older, her mother brought her to vaudeville clubs and the Chicago World's Fair.
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At The Disco under various genres, including vaudeville, baroque pop, indie rock and even hip hop.
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One of the most famous was "Automatic Vaudeville," which opened in New York City in 1903.
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Entertainment ran in the family: His father was a vaudeville performer, his mother a piano player.
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It would seem very loose to us, but it was different from vaudeville, closer to drama.
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A high school dropout, Miriam was soon hired for a vaudeville act, recommended by a friend.
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The Three Stooges were a vaudeville and slapstick comedy team whose antics regularly appeared on television.
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Her family soon moved to Los Angeles, where Nanette began working in vaudeville at age 4.
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Her mother's love of theater and vaudeville led Sawyer toward acting as an 8-year-old.
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Davis's prolific career began when he was a toddler performing vaudeville with his father and uncle.
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The Opry House reveals how inextricably linked vaudeville performance and blackface minstrelsy were to early animation.
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Jane reacts by pouring her energy into resurrecting her old vaudeville act and regaining some former glory.
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He set "The Pale King" in Peoria, the figurative perfect middle of the country since vaudeville days.
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Spock and Bones (Karl Urban) take their bickering-astronaut vaudeville double act on the road once again.
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Sometimes that desperate pace is a winning part of the plotless vaudeville comedy Ms. Tharp sets onstage.
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The float is ornamented with patterns and fixtures that recall the bygone era of vaudeville and speakeasies.
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On one playlist, the old vaudeville singer Al Jolson and Miles Davis butt up against each other.
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His father, Samuel, was a furrier in England; his mother, Sadie (Gittelmacher) Weizer, was a vaudeville performer.
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In first grade, I arrived at my suburban elementary school as a sort of academic vaudeville trickster.
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She's on the road constantly, like a vaudeville player, and that means she always has good gossip.
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" The American electorate, he explained to Robin, "is too mature to be taken in by cheap vaudeville trickery.
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Mr. Goodman, 61, opened Trash and Vaudeville in 1975, in what was formerly Limbo, a hippie clothing shop.
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There are lounge singers and magicians and comics and singing comic magicians, like the last bastion of vaudeville.
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As a charming 9-year-old, "Baby" Jane Hudson sells out theater after theater with stellar vaudeville performances.
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Built in 21, the venue's been used as a vaudeville house, a movie theater, and a meeting hall.
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Hostility gives way to a spirited collaboration, as the two Mastersingers carry on like a madcap vaudeville duo.
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One of the early talkie films was the 1927 "The JAZZ SINGER," starring the vaudeville legend Al Jolson.
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His father, Ralph, a trombonist who had played in vaudeville and regional bands, became his first role model.
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The comedian Jerry Lewis worked as a pool boy and busboy while his parents performed a vaudeville act.
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The job, to his dismay, entailed cataloging old comedy routines and cleaning up salty vaudeville jokes for reuse.
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Modern professional wrestling traces its lineage back through cable wars, territory fights, Vaudeville and carnival "strong man" contests.
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In the 19th century, you wouldn't have seen a vaudeville or music hall programme bill without a strongman show.
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Boxing always had a show-biz aspect to it; Jack Johnson made off-ring dollars on the vaudeville circuit.
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Dame Shirley's interactions with Ned—portrayed by the sensational young bass-baritone Davóne Tines—have a slapstick, vaudeville character.
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" In 1991 he patched together a merry valentine to Yiddish vaudeville, with himself as the star, called "Finkel's Follies.
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The arrangements by her brilliant pianist, Yasuhiko Fukuoka, found a seamless blend of folk, classical, blues and vaudeville styles.
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Actually, they're grown-ups, among them a vaudeville troupe from Montreal; a pair of bartenders from Key West, Fla.
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He also has the rim-shot-inspiring vaudeville delivery down cold, and he remains as Gumby-like as ever.
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His father, Lou, was a car salesman and part-time vaudeville singer, his mother, Helen (Levine) Robbins, a homemaker.
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Even when they're quarreling, which is much of the time, they have the synchronized rhythms of a vaudeville team.
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There's a $32 million renovation of the Rialto Theater, a 1920s-era vaudeville theater with more than 850 seats.
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A light bulb went off, and he figured out the difference between English music hall music and American vaudeville.
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In the musical movie "Funny Girl," Streisand played Fanny Brice, a vaudeville actress who became a famous Broadway star.
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The original incarnation featured John Zorn and a number of other musicians whose affinities ran from punk to vaudeville.
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She discovered the film had been shot by William Selig, a pioneer in film production and former vaudeville performer.
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Constructed in 1930, the United Palace once championed vaudeville performances and also functioned as a luxurious, high-end movie theater.
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A lot of old Vaudeville acts ended with one or more of the protagonists getting a pie in the face.
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There was something distinctly vaudeville about Bobby "the Brain" Heenan, who died this past Sunday at the age of 73.
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It used to be that hypnosis was a mystical, exoteric exercise that only really appeared in vaudeville or traveling circuses.
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Swellhead Bigmouth Poet," while John Ahern, writing in The Boston Globe in 1964, mocked his "vaudeville" verse as "homespun doggerel.
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"Something Good" featured vaudeville actors Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown and is the earliest- known surviving Selig Polyscope Company film.
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He did vaudeville, more or less, a lifelong act where he played the straight man to a host of clowns.
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The interactions of the artists are a little vaudeville, a little Dada, a little erotic — sometimes synchronized, sometimes off-kilter.
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A young girl moves to New York in 1940 to work as a costume designer at a seedy vaudeville theater.
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Soon, it drew the burlesque and vaudeville actors who felt shunned by New York's more elite Players and Lambs clubs.
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His father was a vaudeville performer who became a perfume salesman; his mother, a homemaker, died giving birth to him.
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"I started looking up stuff and found that Gallagher was part of Gallagher and Shean, a vaudeville team," he said.
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And she often graced the movie screen, helping to bring black music from the vaudeville stage into the audiovisual age.
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When the fight was announced, I vowed that I would not be bamboozled into buying into this fistic vaudeville act.
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They followed the lead of Edgar Bergen, the celebrated vaudeville and radio ventriloquist whose best-known dummy was Charlie McCarthy.
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It was van Hove's most heretical revision, because it cut so sharply against the grain of the song's vaudeville style.
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The music was being reorchestrated, digging further into the vaudeville honks and dongs and making the rhythms driven and aggressive.
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Back in the days of vaudeville, the label "eccentric dancing" was accepted for a wide range of idioms, not least tap.
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" Daniel was fortunate enough to have conversations with people who knew Fitzgerald and who cite his "ridiculous, vaudeville sense of humor.
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And above all, he plays the kind of character that would have played well in vaudeville: dumb, helpless, and easily provoked.
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He also didn't view dancers as a dating pool and hang about, lovelorn, like a Stage Door Johnny from vaudeville days.
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The club once drew burlesque dancers and vaudeville stars, and their bawdy, off-color humor is part of the club's DNA.
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Too many of the translations go overboard with vaudeville jokes and coarse wit rather than capture the 'esprit' of the original.
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Alda first learned how to get and keep people's attention from his parents, vaudeville performers who christened him Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo.
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But more than Butoh — the postwar Japanese form known, in part, for its dark, slow-motion movement — his dancing embraces vaudeville.
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They needed to flesh out the scenes set in the past, they knew, and rework a couple of vaudeville-style numbers.
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Trump was that hostile-jaunty guy in the big flappy suit, with the vaudeville hair, the pursed lips, and the glare.
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These movies were often saturated with populist ideas (class consciousness, anti-authoritarianism, racial prejudice) and incorporated populist forms (vaudeville, slapstick, burlesque).
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While genteel business owners had scorned the crowds pouring into nickelodeons and vaudeville houses, the newcomers risked setting up production companies.
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In her current exhibition, "A Vaudeville on Mankind in Time and Space," Fia Backström draws upon the work of the Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson, whose epic science fiction poem "Aniara: A Vaudeville on Mankind in Time and Space" provides both a title and a springboard for thinking about time, history and the fate of humanity.
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Others may give you the chance to talk like a pirate and crack jokes in an old-timey "vaudeville" accent, or flirt.
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VOTE OR DIE LAUGHING An evening of "postmodern political vaudeville" from Culture Clash at the Valley Performing Arts Center in Northridge, Calif.
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It also started to run community programs — sending vaudeville acts to nursing homes and clowns to hospitals to amuse very sick children.
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Musically, Ms. Ebersole is a freewheeling time traveler whose affection for operetta and vaudeville allows her to hopscotch merrily through the decades.
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He also sang in a choir behind the famous cantor Yossele Rosenblatt, and began pecking out popular songs and Yiddish vaudeville tunes.
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Then some eerie old footage of a "cakewalk," from an early black vaudeville performance, one of the few that were ever filmed.
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He explained that many of these grand movie palaces had already reinvented themselves from vaudeville and silent film theaters into movie theaters.
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The second-oldest symphony in the country, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra plays in Powell Symphony Hall, an ornate 217106158 vaudeville theater.
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Each artist was asked to consider the history of Times Square and its past, which includes vaudeville, dance halls and vernacular forms.
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"They grew up before my eyes," The cinema was originally built in the 1920s to show movies as well as vaudeville shows.
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Growing up, Mr. Phoenix spent time busking with his brothers and sisters in Los Angeles; vaudeville is in his body's history, too.
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The table read had been a dud, possibly because the writers felt uneasy constructing multi-cam jokes, with their hard, vaudeville beats.
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A century ago, downtown Los Angeles was the center of the city's entertainment, with movie and vaudeville theaters seemingly on every block.
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Ms. Dorrance danced a charming vaudeville-type trio with Mr. Irwin and the festival director, Damian Woetzel (a former City Ballet star).
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Dark as that sounds, the show's revuelike format allows the authors to vary the palette with mad scenes, melodrama, minstrelsy and vaudeville.
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It served as the overture to Ms. Krall's performances of vaudeville songs during her "Glad Rag Doll" tour in 2012 and 2013.
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They do Coney Island-style freak-show things like sword swallowing and other vaudeville classics with what appears to be a modern spin.
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Later, she took grand tours across the globe from South Africa to Australia, and spent her last struggling years in New York vaudeville.
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There, with Mr. Dixon and Lynda Segal, he wrote and performed in "Stewed Prunes," a revue inspired by vaudeville and silent film comedy.
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Boggling, a muscular side effect of bruxing, is when a rat bugs its eyes in and out rapidly, like a possessed vaudeville comic.
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And he wasn't joking—the porn is so over-the-top it's more like dirty vaudeville than something you'd want to masturbate to.
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Sorry, those little white gloves have their root in minstrel shows, intensely racist vaudeville acts whose repercussions are still seen in today's media.
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Behind the Poster "Death & Harry Houdini" is a biographical show about the famed death-defying magician, featuring live magic and vaudeville-style music.
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At the same time, the vaudeville star Lizzie Cree (Olivia Cooke, last seen in "Bates Motel") is on trial for poisoning her husband.
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"Many character actors had created their archetypes in vaudeville or theater," says Bruce Goldstein, director of repertory programming at New York's Film Forum.
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He performed his "record act" solo between features at movie theaters in northern New Jersey, and soon moved on to burlesque and vaudeville.
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He also talked about his childhood love of vaudeville — which was his family's business — the theater of the absurd, musical revues, O'Neill, Genet.
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The building became a movie theater in the 1920s, but before that it was a venue for vaudeville and other types of entertainment.
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Even if your grandparents took you to a vaudeville show decades ago, you have to know that these racist spectacles are deeply offensive.
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Transmissions shows the fusion of "lowly" elements from performing arts, such as vaudeville, Broadway, and popular dances, especially elements derived from "Africanist" movement aesthetics.
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Lee's fortunes change when she discovers an unpublished letter by Fanny Brice, a vaudeville star, tucked into the cover of an old library book.
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The vaudeville-like show booked the likes of Elton John and Ethel Merman, key to getting the grown-ups to watch alongside their children.
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"It sort of kicks back to the old vaudeville days, where you see a movie and then there's a live stage show," Summers says.
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The 35-foot gramophone — reminding attendees of vaudeville, jazz, and speakeasies — sat on top of a nine-foot box with a railing and staircases.
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His father, Chester, managed a dime store, and his mother, Isabelle (Olenick) Goldstone, was a homemaker who as a teenager had danced in vaudeville.
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We'd sat together at the Renaissance Festival, in the late afternoon, watching a dunking: torture turned into vaudeville, making tired families giggle and cheer.
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Circa Now The cackling can sound like a chicken who is facing his certain death; the eye rolling suggests that vaudeville is not dead.
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In the doorway to Irving's study, Irwin, who has trained in clowning and vaudeville, described how he exaggerated his movements for the silent film.
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Its parklike feel, along with cafes, restaurants, bandstands, dance halls, symphony concerts, theaters and vaudeville, lure grandparents as much as the rides attract children.
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The centerpiece of one of Fargo's main streets, the Fargo Theatre shows indie movies and classic films in its restored vaudeville interior from 1926.
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First, because I am interested in how now-neglected but influential parts of the entertainment fabric, like vaudeville and pantomime, have survived and evolved.
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And when the comic vaudeville number "Gee, Officer Krupke" turns into a meditation on police brutality, the choice just feels overly literal and didactic.
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He mused about barnstorming in Australia or touring in vaudeville with the heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey and a professional wrestler to be named later.
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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.
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"Wakey, Wakey" retains a Beckettian sense of human existence as an absurdist vaudeville, a slapstick of failing and falling, despite all aspirations to dignity.
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This has been a problem for tappers, whose art in the past was usually presented in venues (vaudeville, night clubs) favoring short-breathed dances.
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Fanny Brice was a beloved Jewish comedienne who made her mark in vaudeville and had quite a range…she could make people laugh, and cry.
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Fanny Brice, Funny Girl (1968)Played by: Barbra Streisand As vaudeville comedienne Fanny Brice, Barbra Streisand was funny, beautiful, and unabashedly proud of her Jewishness.
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In their heyday, just over a century ago, chains of vaudeville theatres spanned the continent, with big impresarios claiming to entertain 5m patrons a year.
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The son of vaudeville entertainers, Lewis became a star in the early 19823s as Martin's comic sidekick in nightclubs, on television and in 21982 movies.
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Budget director Mick Mulvaney (which like the name of a vaudeville villain) claimed that Meals on Wheels doesn't work, and neither do school lunch programs.
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The Vaudeville Caravan, developed 15 years ago, brings a kind of interactive comic theater to nursing homes to help older people combat loneliness and isolation.
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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.
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Gloria Mildred DeHaven was born on July 21993, 268, in Los Angeles to Carter DeHaven and the former Flora Parker, headliners on the vaudeville circuit.
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But in film's very beginnings, approximately 120 years ago, African-Americans' role in the new medium was merely a collection of stereotypes borrowed from vaudeville.
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The 2,800-seat theater, built in 1929, was intended as a home for vaudeville and cinema to vie with those across the water on Broadway.
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The first was the Vision Theatre, a vaudeville-era landmark facing Leimert Park that has been in the midst of stalled renovations for two decades.
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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.
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Trump wanted a spectacle -- a Vaudeville show of characters and personalities -- and from Jay Sekulow's theatrics to Alan Dershowitz's law school lecture, he got it.
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In their early days, the bands gave black performers a crucial outlet outside of the minstrel and vaudeville roles to which they had been relegated.
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Most were working-class, but the range of careers was broad: longshoreman, schoolteacher, miner, vaudeville acrobat, rabbi, and at least one New Yorker fact-checker.
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Dramatic skill turns out to be the very topic of German writer Daniel Kehlmann's "The Mentor," which has arrived at the Vaudeville Theater through Sept.
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They also studied the performances of many of the vaudeville artists and translated those characters studies to paper when they were inventing their own cartoons.
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It surpassed politics and nosedived into vaudeville; we sopped it up, horrified and amused, that uniquely American capacity to revile and crave psychosis in equal measure.
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But in the course of the opera, which Mr. McVicar has garishly and entertainingly studded with vaudeville comedy, Mr. Alagna built up impressive momentum and ardency.
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Bob Boyd, then the coach at Southern California, told The New York Times in 1971 that the vaudeville of dunking did not belong in warm-ups.
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Before she became a movie star, Garland was performing on stage doing vaudeville — an on-stage variety show of sorts that was popular at the time.
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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.
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Abandoned by their father, then saddled with a philandering husband, Harriet placed missing-persons notices in Billboard, at that time a circus-and-vaudeville trade publication.
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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.
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Jim Sharman, director, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975) I like theater of myth and magic with a touch of vaudeville, and it had the trifecta.
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The answer can be discovered at the Vaudeville Theater here, where Kathy Burke's production of Oscar Wilde's "Lady Windermere's Fan" barreled into view on Monday night.
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Lady Charles Cavendish after her marriage, she was a '20s vaudeville showgirl, dance partner to her brother (before Ginger Rogers) and portrait subject of Cecil Beaton.
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It was to make it more like shows in vaudeville or cabaret, where you would put in a coin and have the show start over again.
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The shift from print to video as the dominant media, he warned, would produce a population "distracted by trivia,'' making "their public business a vaudeville act.
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The score further adds to this feeling of timelessness, ranging from a kind of slow motion vaudeville piano tune to more modern, ethereal synth-like compositions.
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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.
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So I'm going to be Kiki, and you're going to be Herb, and we're going to do this material in the style of old vaudeville people.
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She received her second Tony exactly a decade later for "The Will Rogers Follies," a Ziegfeld-style vaudeville extravaganza with a western accent, starring Keith Carradine.
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As the 19th century wore on, the country swooned over minstrel and vaudeville productions, which often used burnt cork or shoe polish to darken performers' faces.
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This year alone, the range of extracurricular activities listed on UChicago applications included: beekeeping, vaudeville clown, slam poetry, "Bacon Club", environmental artist, bird caller and rock climbing.
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But she's since moved into video directing, and this music video for Amanda Palmer (former member of The Dresden Dolls) gives off major steampunk and vaudeville vibes.
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Judge Phillips bought the theater, a former vaudeville and movie house, in 1984 and filled it with murals of black leaders like Marcus Garvey and the Rev.
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Grunts of tuba and bassoon, scuttlings of strings, a splash of saxophone, and slapstick percussion hint at the vaudeville tradition that informs so much of Beckett's work.
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"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.
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The hundreds of songs he recorded include election songs, children's songs, vaudeville songs, sports car songs, drinking songs, outlaw songs and lascivious ditties about Nellie the Barmaid.
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The William Morris Agency was founded in 1898 as William Morris, Vaudeville Agent; it's so old that its original client list included Charlie Chaplin and Mae West.
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In the first half of the 20th century the movies were a fresh novelty, minimizing the impact of older forms of entertainment like Vaudeville and the stage.
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The site's first theater, built in a neo-Renaissance style popular in the Gilded Age, opened in 1908 as the Marathon, a vaudeville theater with 600 seats.
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The territory's mining heritage shows itself in the summertime vaudeville performances at Diamond Tooth Gerties Gambling Hall and the piles of dirt tailings from industrial gold dredging.
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They went downtown to vaudeville shows and movies, took long drives through Rock Creek Park, picnicked, and went home together to their districts in railroad sleeping cars.
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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.
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The tenor Roberto Alagna is Canio and the soprano Barbara Frittoli his cheating wife in "Pag," updated here to a vaudeville show at a postwar Sicilian truck stop.
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Designed as a framework to be stuffed with tuneful songs, vaudeville turns, sprightly dancing, insinuating jokes and cartoon characterizations, "Mattress" has its charms, but they do wear thin.
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Lawyers for two defendants have labeled the trial "procedural vaudeville," but one government prosecutor has insisted the trial was a defense of Spanish democracy and the country's constitution.
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In a span of 22017 years, since she was four, dear Rosie performed on radio, in Vaudeville, nigh clubs, films, TV, & Vegas & always gad audiences clamoring for 'more!!
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That night featured performances from LaBeija and quirky Montreal vaudeville/burlesque troupe Glam Gam, as well as kissing competitions that people of all sexualities were encouraged to enter.
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Maybe it's the humor: America grew up on vaudeville and slapstick, more youthful and accessible forms, whereas Russian humor is winking and wry, at home between the lines.
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Next Stop 10 Photos View Slide Show ' For nearly a century, the Baronet Theater in Asbury Park, N.J., was a popular venue for vaudeville theater and blockbuster films.
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A town with a palate-teasing variety of ethnic restaurants, a theater surviving from the age of vaudeville and a Revolutionary War graveyard is no bland suburban outpost.
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Overlooked obituaries: Ma Rainey, often called the "Mother of the Blues," was the first entertainer to successfully bridge the divide between vaudeville and authentic black Southern folk expression.
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The artist Allan Kaprow was organizing Happenings, a loose term for absurd performances that could range from women licking jam off a car to riffs on vaudeville theater.
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Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones star as the sensational killers Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly, whose songs are performed with a Brechtian style of vaudeville rare onscreen.
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Now his story has become a family musical by Jack Dyville and Lawrence Wankel, who have documented his exploits, which included a career in vaudeville after the war.
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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.
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In "Pearl Bailey" (2017), the vaudeville, stage, and television actress is portrayed as an undulating shape, the curves so nearly palpable one longs to trace them with gentle fingers.
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Perhaps. In 1937, when the first movie came out, rumors swirled that the story was culled from the actual relationship of actress Barbara Stanwyck and vaudeville star Frank Fay.
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Marshall's résumé—he's a Democratic consulting heavyweight who served as a top director of Clinton's presidential campaign—would likely have gotten him the vaudeville hook at the People's Summit.
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He was rescued after hours at sea, clinging to debris and singing vaudeville songs with other survivors, including the ship's commander, Lord Louis Mountbatten, a descendant of Queen Victoria.
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Instead, the riskiest of Mr. Rudin's productions — the bloody vaudeville "Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus," by the downtown favorite Taylor Mac — did surprisingly well, scooping up seven nominations.
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Seeking to capitalize on the publicity, June's parents hoped to send the girl on a vaudeville tour to raise $1,500 in reward money for the arrest of the kidnappers.
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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.
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Langston Hughes's 1931 poem is brought to musical life in this setting by the baritone Davóne Tines and the composer Michael Schachter, combining opera and jazz, spiritual and vaudeville.
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And in an age when drag is a mainstream phenomenon, can the Trocks continue to depend on the silly jokes and visual incongruities, the vaudeville humor and slapstick physicality?
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The few episodes I saw felt like misogynist vaudeville, with cast members monetizing the world's ugliest portrayals of women, a type of auto-drag, humiliating rather than quasi-celebratory.
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Frances "Baby" Gumm, the youngest of three girls born Vaudeville performer parents, was 19693 months old when she first took the stage to sing this Christmas carol in 21969.
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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.
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I attended performances at sites both traditional (the Rex Theater, a gorgeous 1905 former vaudeville stage, where I saw a free show by the jam band Aqueous) and nontraditional.
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Ma Rainey, a Georgia native known as the "Mother of the Blues," was the first entertainer to successfully bridge the divide between vaudeville and authentic black Southern folk expression.
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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.
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Celebrated comedians have been "borrowing" jokes at least since 19th-century vaudeville, with the only rule being that the borrower had to add something to make the gag his own.
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He often cues an off-screen drummer to play a snare riff after his jokes, which makes the episode feel like a dream sequence, a kind of nonsensical vaudeville act.
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So when I started delving into literary and cultural history, the question in the back of my mind was: Did China have anything similar to the Pythons or to vaudeville?
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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.
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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.
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" Yoffe, who has argued that men accused of sexual misdeeds deserve more due process, noted that Franken and Tweeden were "on a U.S.O. tour, which is a raunchy vaudeville throwback.
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He had been working for years assisting other producers and running a booking firm he founded that sent small shows to opera houses and old vaudeville theaters around the country.
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He is treated by a psychiatric doctor (an agile and witty Thom Sesma), who, in a bonus for the audience, lectures in vaudeville pastiche numbers about the nature of recollection.
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As for Vladimir Putin, he has experience staging this kind of vaudeville aimed at turning a frivolous showman into a major political player: Isn't that what happened with Donald Trump?
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We are also in 21st-century America, where a black actor is performing, for the entertainment of white theatergoers, one man's rage with the exaggerated gestures of a vaudeville show.
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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.
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They felt it was especially important to maintain the Vaudeville Visits program, which the Big Apple Circus started in 2004, because there are few such programs for patients with dementia.
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I had worried that Mr. Kurtag would stint the music-hall roots of Beckett's dramaturgy, but bits of accordion and whistles peep out from the orchestra, faraway glimpses of vaudeville.
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The women perform vaudeville-style comedy, but they're also adept at skills like juggling, plate spinning and manipulating their performance partners, puppets that can be as big as they are.
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Since meeting at drama school in London, they have been building their reputation — including a stint on Broadway — and their latest, "Magic Goes Wrong," is now at the Vaudeville Theater.
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The music has a vaudeville quality, with horns and trombone zips, and the lyrics are antic, even though they describe being shunted between the justice system, therapists and social workers.
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Esther's Follies, at the edge of Dirty Sixth, is a long-running "vaudeville" show that's a bit corny and seems a bit touristy, sure, but sometimes that's what you need.
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She has mastered a Brooklyn accent and a host of classic, vaudeville-style line readings, deftly presenting Fanny's comic flourishes as an arsenal of pre-emptive weapons, deflecting pain and ridicule.
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JOHNNY CASH&aposS BOYHOOD HOME GETS SPOT IN THE HISTORY BOOKS In addition to the entertainment on screen, Friedfeld added that there would be novelty acts and vaudeville performances as well.
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With the comic timing of a vaudeville performer — Ms. Tharp, deep down, is something of a clown — she flipped her body to arch over the ball and stretched out her back.
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Dynasty lineups include not only stand-up, but also sketch, improv, film, music, live podcasts like Dan Harmon's "Harmontown," experimental theater, cabaret, puppetry and all manner of vaudeville-style variety acts.
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Keppard was the hot-jazz trumpeter in the Creole Band, which brought jazz to the full U.S.A. when featured in vaudeville 1914 to 1917," Phil says, adding: "Keppard drank a lot!
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Bunny acknowledged her primary demographic a couple times during her vaudeville routine, saying, "you know what I'm talking about," or asking the crowd if they remember country performers like Lynn Anderson.
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In 1995 Mr. Hellerman joined Peter, Paul and Mary on their album "LifeLines," and in 2005 he recorded his first solo album, "Caught in the Act," a collection of vaudeville songs.
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According to Dearborn, the patient earned a living on the vaudeville circuit as Edward H. Gibson, the Human Pincushion, inviting audience members to come up onstage and push pins into him.
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Whether you're a shill at a vaudeville revue hired to clap for a specific act or a smooth-talking DJ grown flush with ill-gotten coin, the song remains the same.
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The first of which is a Prophets of Rage show, held at the Agora, a converted opera house, Yiddish theater, vaudeville and burlesque house turned concert hall, just east of downtown.
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On Saturdays, he regularly went to a theater in Hartford to watch big bands, singers and vaudeville acts, and he grew to admire virtuoso drummers like Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa.
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"What was new when it opened is that for a cheap price, five to 10 cents, it would not only offer moving pictures but also Yiddish vaudeville shows," Ms. Thissen said.
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Harry Houdini and Fred Astaire both performed in the city, and the comedy team of George Burns and Gracie Allen met at a Union City vaudeville theater in the early 1920s.
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It is anything but a snooty film society — many members look like they stepped off a vaudeville stage — but members are passionately devoted to keeping the memory of "The Boys" alive.
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The pitch worked, and Nickelodeon put its flagship character in the hands of an unconventional director, known more for new-wave vaudeville and quiet, emotional musicals ("Floyd Collins") than Broadway blockbusters.
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The show combined the serialized cartoonish antics of big-time wrestling with character-driven sociopolitical satire and corny vaudeville-style blackout sketches, all performed by athletes and actresses in skimpy clothes.
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There were so many cheers from the audience — who hissed at each mention of the president the way theatergoers once might have booed a vaudeville villain — that Mr. Moore checked himself.
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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.
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John, who went by J.V., was a minister who assembled a troupe of child performers known as the Pickaninny Troubadours, presenting them at black theaters and vaudeville stages across the South.
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Judge Phillips, who died in 2008, bought the theater, a former vaudeville and movie house, in 1984 and filled it with murals of black leaders like Marcus Garvey and the Rev.
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This is largely owing to a spectacular performance by Evan Rachel Wood, who plays Dolores, one of Westworld's robots, an unspoiled farmer's daughter, that stock figure of every raunchy vaudeville joke.
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The theatre had the grandeur of a cathedral: blood-red velvet curtains framed the stage; golden ceilings, patterned with blue-and-purple paisleys, soared over vaudeville-era balconies and plush seats.
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Over the past decade, we've seen iconic boutiques like Patricia Field and Love Saves the Day close up shop, while punk emporiums like Trash and Vaudeville have been forced to downsize.
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While I can see why the strongman of British music hall and American vaudeville traditions is a fitting symbol for this political posture, it seems to me a gross insult - to strongmen.
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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.
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The practice stretches past the war-torn 240s, sashays through the 30s and Roaring Twenties, and goes all the way back to vaudeville, and to the silent movies of the early 1900s.
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Going to vaudeville shows and dance halls reflected a youth culture that was about impressing your peers, rather than a means of moving up in the world, and that peer culture persists.
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Don't be embarrassed if you didn't know this: Since the days of vaudeville, in America "Cohen" has meant nothing at best, and at worst it's been the punchline of a cruel joke.
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In "Funny Girl," Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice used her roller skates to steal the spotlight as she fell and trounced during a vaudeville act, pretending to be incompetent in her skates.
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The tribute was organized by Travis Stewart, who produces vaudeville shows under the name Trav S.D. "It was," Mr. Stewart said in a telephone interview, "like the last echo of Ed Sullivan."
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It's not long before her mother, Ethel (Lesli Margherita), packages Frances (now played by Ruby Rakos) and her two older siblings into a sister act, and sends them on the vaudeville circuit.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But never mind the story; this is a vaudeville hodgepodge at heart, with a little bit of everything thrown in: chorus line numbers, ballets, love songs, a harp solo for you-know-who.
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Yet when that exchange occurs in Dominic Dromgoole's eye-opening revival of Wilde's "A Woman of No Importance," at the Vaudeville Theater here, it has a resonance that transcends its perfectly appointed cleverness.
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Ms. Sobchak is no dramatic heroine; her play is a vaudeville act in which the daughter of a deceased teacher enters into an alliance with his pupil, in hopes of possibly outwitting him.
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The sensational headlines that she made during her life continued, as newspapers continued to run articles on the oddity of Ms. Bayes, a pre-eminent star of Broadway and vaudeville, remaining in limbo.
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They work for Vaudeville Visits, a program at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J., which is run by Healthy Humor, a national nonprofit that primarily sends clowns to pediatric units in hospitals.
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At times during CNN's Democratic debate on Sunday night, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders seemed like feuding former vaudeville stars arguing over which of them muffed his lines in Buffalo 43 years ago.
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For this group, formed in 2811 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.companyxiv.
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She had been active in the Black Panthers and started a vaudeville troupe with the fellow actor Donald Sutherland as an alternative to the U.S.O.-sponsored shows of Bob Hope for entertaining soldiers.
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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.
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It tells the mostly true story of Fanny Brice, who started out as a Ziegfeld Follies chorine and became a powerful force in early-21968th-century vaudeville and a paragon of female independence.
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She spent her teenage years thrashing to punk bands at ABC No Rio, sneaking into dive bars, sitting on the steps outside Trash and Vaudeville, and partying in abandoned buildings in Alphabet City.
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His grandparents' acrobatic dance troupe was imported from Russia in 19973 by a novice New York vaudeville agent who himself had recently immigrated and changed his name from Zelman Moses to William Morris.
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One night, she agreed to go to a vaudeville show with a friend; she'd experienced some cramps earlier in the day, but decided to ignore them because she didn't want to seem flakey.
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L. Samuel Friede's Coney Island Globe was to be a 700-foot-tall, cast-iron entertainment center for Coney Island, containing vaudeville theaters, circus rings, ballrooms, a roller-skating rink, and several other attractions.
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Besides getting his high school diploma, he was also educated at the Roxy, the majestic midtown Manhattan movie palace and venue for vaudeville-style stage shows, where his father played trombone in the orchestra.
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The dialogue is in Japanese, but at a recent dress rehearsal here, the attitude and staging were all-American, loyal to the vaudeville-inspired production that has been running on Broadway for two decades.
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Gloria DeHaven, the perky daughter of vaudeville stars who grew up to sing, dance and play vulnerable, pouty-lipped ingénues in movie musicals of the 1940s and '50s, died on Saturday in Las Vegas.
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For instance: a concept album about an imaginary Edwardian military band, featuring songs written in a number of styles ranging from psychedelic rock, through Indian classical music, to European avant-garde composition, and vaudeville.
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Besides the waves of Cubans that Union City has attracted over the years, earning it the nickname Havana on the Hudson, the city has also been home to Hudson County's burlesque and vaudeville scene.
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Just as live-action films surpassed their roots in photography and theatre, animated films—borrowing from comic strips, magic shows, and vaudeville—took flight and became a distinctive and mysterious kind of aesthetic experience.
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Shows of a dozen or more acts would make audiences gasp, weep and laugh in rapid succession—speed was a vaudeville obsession, as it is with Mr Trump, who promises to bring change "so fast".
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And that's how it was meant to sound when it made its debut in 1928, its percussive features and four levels of keys adding atmosphere, music, and sound effects to silent films and vaudeville shows.
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The names of the brothers, I'm afraid, are Herman and Verman, and although they are on terms of total equality with the other boys, their language sounds like the worst kind of vaudeville blackface impersonation.
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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.
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Originally conceived of as a vaudeville stage named the Yosemite Theatre in 2403, it quickly transitioned into a silent movie cinema house known as the Eagle Theatre, which then made a segue way into sound.
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She went to Vegas with a dream of getting out where she met my father, who was a kid on the road from the time he was 12 or 13 with this vaudeville harmonica group.
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The plots of many ancient Greek and Roman comedies revolved around prostitution (like Menander's "Sikyonioi" and Terence's "Hecyra"), and American comics performed in burlesque and vaudeville shows in the early part of the 20th century.
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There are lively anecdotes from his career, such as the humiliation during a youthful gig at a vaudeville club when a resident comic jeered that he should become a truck driver instead of a pianist.
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Fortunately, they landed on their feet in a former vaudeville theater in Highland Park, and threw a star-studded grand opening earlier this month with actors Colin Hanks and David Arquette, and musician Joanna Newsom.
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The new Off Broadway show "Jack and the Beanstalk," presented at the Abrons Arts Center, may help rectify the situation regarding panto, a vaudeville-derived, proudly lowbrow genre that happily endorses an anything-goes approach.
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