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Definition of Vaudeville

Vaudeville Loosely, and now commonly, variety (see above), as, to play in vaudeville; a vaudeville actor. 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. A theatrical piece, usually a comedy, the dialogue of which is intermingled with light or satirical songs, set to familiar airs. Related Definitions: Above, Actor, Air, And, As, Character, Comedy, Commonly, Dialogue, Embodying, Event, Familiar, Frequently, In, Is, Kind, Lively, Loosely, Light, Now, Of, On, Or, Person, Piece, Play, Refrain, Satire, Satirical, See, Set, Some, Song, Street, Sung, The, Theatrical, To, Topical, Variety, Vaudeville, Which, With

Vaudeville Quotations I'm not subject to their rise and fall because I'm not accepted by them, so I have my own little curve going on. A lot of it is because of how much I play, I think I connect like when all you had was Vaudeville, I think I have an audience by performing a lot! Leo Kottke I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals. Ethel Merman So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object! Edgar Bergen The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh. Leslie Nielsen Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater. James Broughton

Vaudeville Translations vaudeville in French is vaudeville

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