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What is Vaudeville?
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First let's try to answer the question what is vaudeville, or maybe we should say what was vaudeville.
Vaudeville was a form of variety entertainment which was very popular in the United States, Canada and England from mid-1800s until the 1950s. Vaudeville performers would travel from town to town and perform on stage in vaudeville theaters, some of today's movie theaters began as vaudeville theaters. Vaudeville has often been confused with burlesque, however they are quite different. Burlesque is similar to vaudeville but is a form of adult entertainment performed on stage featuring strippers, risqué comics and novelty acts. |
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