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| Grand Theatre in Buffalo, NY around 1900 |
Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United
States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance
was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a
common bill. Types of acts included popular and classical musicians, dancers,
comedians, trained animals, magicians, female and male impersonators, acrobats,
illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes,
lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies.
You can read more
about Vaudeville here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaudeville
or if you are the
visual type you can watch this two-part documentary film on YouTube:
The photo is taken
from this site
where
you can find lots of interesting information about vaudeville but also watch
original films and listen to original tunes.
Other interesting
sites:
http://vintagevaudevilleandburlesque.tumblr.com/
[nice vintage photos]
http://cinephilefix.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/film-history-from-vaudeville-houses-to-deluxe-theaters/
[about Vaudeville Houses]
Don't miss the Vaudeville Revue organized by the Athens Lindy Hop on June 16, 2012.
Don't miss the Vaudeville Revue organized by the Athens Lindy Hop on June 16, 2012.
