vaudeville
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Vaudeville was a form of live entertainment featuring a variety of short acts such as dancers, clowns, acrobats, singers, and comedians performing on the same stage. It was a popular and accessible form of theater that brought diverse entertainment to audiences in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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- Etymology
- Beginnings
- Popularity
- Women
- Black vaudeville
- Immigrant America
- Selected vaudeville artists
- Decline
- Architecture
- Vaudeville's cultural influence and legacy
- Archives
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
thumb|A promotional poster for the Sandow Trocadero Vaudevilles (1894), showing dancers, clowns, trapeze artists, costumed dogs, singers and costumed actors
Vaudeville (; ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which became popular in the United States and Canada from the early 1870s until the early 1930s.