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Definition of vaudeville in English: vaudevillenoun ˈvɔːdəvɪlˈvɔd(ə)ˌvɪl mass noun1A type of entertainment popular chiefly in the US in the early 20th century, featuring a mixture of speciality acts such as burlesque comedy and song and dance. his comedic roots are in vaudeville as modifier a stage show with vaudeville acts and dancing girls Example sentencesExamples - About the same time, Bob Hope, like every other comic in vaudeville, learned a useful lesson: When a sketch starts to tank, it's safer to make the audience part of the act than to pretend it isn't there.
- The 16-year-old Shakespeare in the Park company moved into new digs this year in a former vaudeville house, the Rex, which had fallen into disrepair.
- The Classic has been many things in its lifetime: an acting space, a cinema, a porn palace, a vaudeville establishment, and - until recently - a disused warehouse.
- The dynamic reminds me of the old George Burns and Gracie Allen vaudeville routine about the property implications of marriage.
- Drinking songs, in vaudeville performances, were often performed by cross-dressed women.
- Once a vaudeville dancer on Broadway, Shirley Slesinger Lasswell is now 80.
- As for her most memorable lines, they are demonstrable reworkings of old vaudeville and burlesque gags that had been kicking around since the dawn of creation.
- Early film included actors from theater and vaudeville, entertainers from the circus, boxers, dancers, and non-actors caught in actualities or put on screen for staged events.
- Part of the appeal was the venue, the Théatre National, an old vaudeville house on Ste-Catherine E. recently restored to a semblance of its former glory.
- In 1924, Seldes came out with a book called The 7 Lively Arts, a celebration of comic strips, vaudeville, slapstick, musical comedy, and other non-elitist culture.
- As early as 1913, Billboard, a music industry journal, had begun printing weekly sheet music bestseller charts and surveys of the most popular songs in vaudeville.
- Adding drama to the downtown scene are the melodramas and vaudeville revues presented at the Gaslighter Theater.
- Singalongs, comedy acts, and ‘variety’ performances were staged in pubs regularly before music halls and vaudeville theatres became firmly established from the mid-nineteenth century.
- Like a vaudeville performer, Victorian novelist, or stand-up comic, Hirst will do anything to hold your attention.
- Hope instinctively knew that he needed to build a marketable image for himself if he was going to stand out from all the other vaudeville and radio comics trying to break into movies in the 1930s.
- Christmas would bring back the memory of losing his father, a minor vaudeville star and alcoholic, who died when Charlie was a child.
- Cutter is no suave sophisticate, but Grant's background in vaudeville honed his comic sensibilities and paved his way to wonderful performances in classic screwball comedies like Bringing Up Baby.
- Father stayed on the vaudeville circuit for a few years after he and mother got married.
- Their march will take them to the old Town Hall, which has been replaced by ‘The Palace,’ a saloon that features vaudeville acts and dancing girls.
- He was effectively born in a trunk; his parents worked in a vaudeville company run by his grandmother, and as a child he joined them on stage in their comedy act.
- In Edinburgh, we are promised the best of contemporary burlesque and vaudeville performers.
- 1.1count noun A light or comic stage play with interspersed songs.
Example sentencesExamples - It made its presence felt in turn-of-the-century vaudevilles and was crucial to many Hollywood comedies in the years surrounding World War II, particularly the films of Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder.
- In English Canada, Shakespeare served as protection against the incursions of American commercialism; in French Canada, against imported French vaudevilles.
- A character based on the prototypical French soldat-laboreur figured in La cocarde tricolore, a vaudeville performed in Paris in 1832 and set during the taking of Algiers two years earlier.
- Cellier wrote numerous comic operas, vaudevilles, one grand opera, The Masque of Pandora, and a few instrumental works.
- 1.2archaic count noun A satirical or topical song with a refrain.
Origin Mid 18th century: from French, earlier vau de ville (or vire), said to be a name given originally to songs composed by Olivier Basselin, a 15th-century fuller born in Vau de Vire in Normandy. Olivier Basselin was a 15th-century Frenchman from Vau de Vire, Normandy, who composed songs reputedly given the name chansons du Vau de Vire, or ‘songs of the valley of Vire’. This was adapted to French ville ‘town’ and became vau de ville and later vaudeville, which was applied to a light popular song sung on the stage, the first meaning of vaudeville in English in the mid 18th century.
Definition of vaudeville in US English: vaudevillenounˈvɔd(ə)ˌvɪlˈvôd(ə)ˌvil 1A type of entertainment popular chiefly in the US in the early 20th century, featuring a mixture of specialty acts such as burlesque comedy and song and dance. his comedic roots are in vaudeville as modifier a stage show with vaudeville acts and dancing girls Example sentencesExamples - Drinking songs, in vaudeville performances, were often performed by cross-dressed women.
- Singalongs, comedy acts, and ‘variety’ performances were staged in pubs regularly before music halls and vaudeville theatres became firmly established from the mid-nineteenth century.
- In 1924, Seldes came out with a book called The 7 Lively Arts, a celebration of comic strips, vaudeville, slapstick, musical comedy, and other non-elitist culture.
- Once a vaudeville dancer on Broadway, Shirley Slesinger Lasswell is now 80.
- Part of the appeal was the venue, the Théatre National, an old vaudeville house on Ste-Catherine E. recently restored to a semblance of its former glory.
- He was effectively born in a trunk; his parents worked in a vaudeville company run by his grandmother, and as a child he joined them on stage in their comedy act.
- The 16-year-old Shakespeare in the Park company moved into new digs this year in a former vaudeville house, the Rex, which had fallen into disrepair.
- Hope instinctively knew that he needed to build a marketable image for himself if he was going to stand out from all the other vaudeville and radio comics trying to break into movies in the 1930s.
- As for her most memorable lines, they are demonstrable reworkings of old vaudeville and burlesque gags that had been kicking around since the dawn of creation.
- As early as 1913, Billboard, a music industry journal, had begun printing weekly sheet music bestseller charts and surveys of the most popular songs in vaudeville.
- Early film included actors from theater and vaudeville, entertainers from the circus, boxers, dancers, and non-actors caught in actualities or put on screen for staged events.
- Father stayed on the vaudeville circuit for a few years after he and mother got married.
- Christmas would bring back the memory of losing his father, a minor vaudeville star and alcoholic, who died when Charlie was a child.
- About the same time, Bob Hope, like every other comic in vaudeville, learned a useful lesson: When a sketch starts to tank, it's safer to make the audience part of the act than to pretend it isn't there.
- The dynamic reminds me of the old George Burns and Gracie Allen vaudeville routine about the property implications of marriage.
- Like a vaudeville performer, Victorian novelist, or stand-up comic, Hirst will do anything to hold your attention.
- Adding drama to the downtown scene are the melodramas and vaudeville revues presented at the Gaslighter Theater.
- The Classic has been many things in its lifetime: an acting space, a cinema, a porn palace, a vaudeville establishment, and - until recently - a disused warehouse.
- Cutter is no suave sophisticate, but Grant's background in vaudeville honed his comic sensibilities and paved his way to wonderful performances in classic screwball comedies like Bringing Up Baby.
- Their march will take them to the old Town Hall, which has been replaced by ‘The Palace,’ a saloon that features vaudeville acts and dancing girls.
- In Edinburgh, we are promised the best of contemporary burlesque and vaudeville performers.
- 1.1 A stage play on a trivial theme with interspersed songs.
Example sentencesExamples - A character based on the prototypical French soldat-laboreur figured in La cocarde tricolore, a vaudeville performed in Paris in 1832 and set during the taking of Algiers two years earlier.
- In English Canada, Shakespeare served as protection against the incursions of American commercialism; in French Canada, against imported French vaudevilles.
- It made its presence felt in turn-of-the-century vaudevilles and was crucial to many Hollywood comedies in the years surrounding World War II, particularly the films of Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder.
- Cellier wrote numerous comic operas, vaudevilles, one grand opera, The Masque of Pandora, and a few instrumental works.
- 1.2archaic A satirical or topical song with a refrain.
Origin Mid 18th century: from French, earlier vau de ville (or vire), said to be a name given originally to songs composed by Olivier Basselin, a 15th-century fuller born in Vau de Vire in Normandy. |