music hall

noun

1. An auditorium for concerts and musical entertainments.
2. A vaudeville or variety theater.
3. A style of light entertainment popular in the United Kingdom from the late-19th to early-20th centuries, especially associated with jaunty sing-along songs, comedic sketches and variety acts.

   “His first appearance, at the age of four, was in a music-hall comedy routine played by his father and Little Tich at the Tyne Theatre, Newcastle.”

   “The instrumentation of two B flat clarinets, bass clarinet, piano, bass guitar and snare drum brushstrokes in and of itself evokes an antiquated music hall style.”