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vaudeville ['vәudәvil]

n. 杂耍, 轻歌舞剧

vaudeville

[ noun ]
a variety show with songs and comic acts etc.
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Vaudeville \Vaude"ville\, n. [F., fr. Vau-de-vire, a village in
Normandy, where Olivier Basselin, at the end of the 14th
century, composed such songs.] [Written also {vaudevil}.]
1. A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying
a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air
in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song.

2. A theatrical piece, usually a comedy, the dialogue of
which is intermingled with light or satirical songs, set
to familiar airs.

The early vaudeville, which is the forerunner of the
opera bouffe, was light, graceful, and piquant.
--Johnson's
Cyc.

3. a {variety show} when performed live in a theater (see
above); as, to play in vaudeville; a vaudeville actor.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Davis, who measured a mere 5-foot-6 and weighed not much more than a jockey, died Wednesday at 64. He was the last working vestige of old-time vaudeville as well as entertainment's Renaissance man.
Cox said. "They don't realize how popular they are." Most of the men and women who played the Munchkins were recruited by two troupes of vaudeville midgets headed by Leo Singer and Major Doyle.
Barbershop quartets, which popped up mainly on the East Coast at the turn of the century and were popular during the vaudeville era, use four-part harmonies to carry tunes.
The 64-year-old song-and-dance man known as "Mr. Entertainment" was buried Friday next to his vaudeville entertainer father in a family plot.
The couple began appearing on radio in 1925, but still worked vaudeville because the new medium paid so little.
In the old days, TV was called "electronic vaudeville."
Barbershop quartets, which cropped up mainly on the East Coast at the turn of the century and became popular during the vaudeville era, use four-part harmonies to carry tunes.
He got work in vaudeville and nightclubs, toured four years with Milton Berle and Ina Ray Hutton and began appearing in Broadway revues in 1939.
Jim and Marian Jordan came to radio out of vaudeville to formulate the comedy with writer Don Quinn.
The theater - home to vaudeville, musical comedy, radio and TV studios - has its newest proprietor in David Niles, a pioneer in high-definition television who's also known by the nickname Captain Video.
The actor appeared opposite such stars as Buddy Ebsen, Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller in a career that spanned vaudeville to television.
Director Rick Rosenthal and the writers appeared to be setting up the tension to come by verging on vaudeville.
If you miss those days, CBS and magician-author Ricky Jay offer a droll, affectionate and engrossing hour Thursday night of '90s-style vaudeville: "Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women."
Montana traveled the vaudeville circuit with his parents as a child and then lived in Boston's theater district.
The Joffrey Ballet season at the City Center opened with what was intended to be a salute to vaudeville.
His acting career began in stock theater and vaudeville, and he went on to become a radio announcer in Cleveland, Detroit and New York.
There is a saccharine blend of operetta and vaudeville.
It concerns the children of out-of-work vaudeville performers who put on a revue so they will not be sent to a work farm.
In 1965, when the popular British novelist J.B. Priestley was 70, he decided that the reading public was finally ready for his spicy memories of life on the pre-World War I "Variety" circuit (British vaudeville).
A onetime vaudeville dancer, Janis began going to art galleries for fun while working for his brother's chain of shoe stores.
What aroused the public's enthusiasm was closer to old-time vaudeville than to ballet as usually seen in this country.
In 1932, a vaudeville comedian made his radio debut by saying, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is Jack Benny talking.
He began writing songs for vaudeville acts and lyrics for the Ziegfeld Follies stage shows in New York.
Stanwyck's career spanned the chorus line, vaudeville, motion pictures and television, earning her three Emmys and four Academy Award nominations.

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