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The Staycation Vaudeville Revue highlighted, in a very humorous way, several places in the Central Coast that tourists and locals all love to visit ... WHAT: Rip Van Winkle and The Staycation Vaudeville Revue run through Sept. 20, alternating with the already running production of Gold Fever at the Rough and Ready and The Villain s Vaudeville Revue. (Santa Maria Times)
* OTHER RELEASES Jul 24, 2009
Filled with cameos by media personalities playing themselves, this is worth a look, especially for those who long for the return of vaudeville. Gu Gu the Cat. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Kaye Ballard Losing 10 pounds in 53 years! Jul 24, 2009
While still a teenager, Kaye performed in a USO production of Stage Door Canteen, then came vaudeville and burlesque houses. Funny guy Spike Jones found her ushering in a theatre and put her on his tour singing, playing tuba and doing her wonderful comedy impressions. (Desert Entertainer, CA)
Where history lives Jul 20, 2009
Proctors, which hosts touring Broadway productions as well as other comedic and musical acts, began as a vaudeville house in 1926. A group of concerned citizens purchased the theater in 1979 from the city of Schenectady for $1 because the structure faced demolition. (Albany Times Union)
What's happenin' Jul 18, 2009
Big Sky Repertory Theatre, Butte's premiere professional theater company, presents a One-Act Comedy Playfest, featuring a series of three one-act comedies, each followed by a vaudeville musical revue ... The Opera House Theatre in Philipsburg presents "Having a Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Her," "Butterscotch" and an "All Vaudeville Extravaganza" in reper-tory. (Montana Standard, MT)
Theater Review: ‘Graceland' adds witty banter to professional vocals Jul 16, 2009
As captivating as this one-act play is, the night really gets rolling when the Big Sky Rep ensemble takes the stage for a vaudeville style revue. Accompanying classic songs by Andree' O'Shea, JoAnne Nordhagen, Jason Driscoll, Sandra Mellott, Melissa McGregor and Landon Hansen, Dave Coleman's piano playing shines throughout the set. (Montana Standard, MT)
Trixi’s treat Jul 12, 2009
The connection to Trixi, a famous vaudeville performer and rodeo queen, explains the memorial covering one of the walls behind the antlers and above the pool table. A cowgirl through and through, Trixi performed with her horse, Silver Dollar, and her trained dog, Cutie, at rodeos, nightclubs and theaters. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Big Sky Rep sets comedy playfest Jul 10, 2009
In an effort to help promote Butte as the Festival City, Big Sky Repertory Theatre, Butte's professional theater company, will kick off its 2009 season next week with a One-Act Comedy Playfest, featuring a series of three one-act comedies, each followed by a vaudeville musical revue. The three shows are. (Montana Standard, MT)
Manager staging a comeback for Athens Theatre Jul 9, 2009
The historic theater opened in 1922 as a vaudeville and silent movie house, and over the years fell into disrepair. Today, thanks to grants and lots of community support, the theater has been restored to its former grandeur with a few modern technological improvements. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
What's happending Sunday Jul 5, 2009
The Opera House Theatre in Philipsburg presents "Having a Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Her," "Butterscotch" and an "All Vaudeville Extravaganza" in repertory. Shows are Thursday through Sunday. (Montana Standard, MT)
James Howard Kunstler on Michael Jackson as America Jul 2, 2009
The Man in the Mirror - Clusterfuck Nation. Clusterfuck Nation Comment on Current Events by the Author of "The Long Emergency". (Harper's Magazine)
Takarazuka: Putting On the Glitz In Japanese Theater Jul 1, 2009
Lest you think that there is something very Japanese about the costumes, the dancing and the cute chorus lines, it should be noted that Takarazuka now derives most of its inspiration from foreign sources vaudeville, Radio City Music Hall and Hollywood musicals. In their stylization, codified roles, transvestite stars, rigid themes (boy and girl fall in love, conflict ensues and is resolved), and the combinations of dance, drama and chorus lines, there are obvious similarities between Takarazuka... (Time.com)
'Ice Age' warms up to dinosaurs in third installment Jun 30, 2009
Besides, animation and dinosaurs go way back, at least to 1914, when newspaper cartoonist Winsor McCay brought dancing, tree-munching Gertie to life as part of a vaudeville act. De S. (USA Today)
Community theater hosts birdhouse auction in Valatie Jun 28, 2009
Originally a movie theater, with some occurrences of vaudeville shows, it s going to take about 600,000 to restore completely, according to theater treasurer Michael W. Rivenburg. Recently, the theater has hosted community movie nights, put on a production of Arthur Miller s Broken Glass , been used to accommodate town meetings where larger crowds need seating, and been rented for the setting of a young rock and roll show. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
Click to read: Liza On Autopsy: All Hell Will Break Loose Jun 27, 2009
"And then every Tuesday night we had dinner. He was passionate about learning and about everything. My father adored him. He knew every word of every song in every film my father ever made. He burst into triplets and three little unexpected children, that thing when he was around my dad. He was so curious. When I took him to Martha Graham's for rehearsal, he was absolutely riveted and we went home, and he wanted to learn all of those steps. So I taught him. He was such a student of everything.... (CBS News -- Early Show)
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What's Happening: Vaudeville at Skamokawa Grange ... The annual Skamokawa Follies, a Vaudeville show with live music, comedy and dancing, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Skamokawa Grange. (Longview Daily News, WA)
• What happens when a fairy tale goes wrong? Jun 26, 2009
By Judy AlbertsonTimes-News writer RUPERT - Once again the Wilson Theatre will kick off Rupert's Fourth of July celebration with the comedy vaudeville spoof "The Final Dress Rehearsal," by American playwright Jack Frakes ... Pre-show vaudeville entertainment will include great Broadway musical numbers. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
• Events calendar Jun 26, 2009
Mount Harrison Heritage Foundation presents the comedy spoof "The Final Dress Rehearsal" and vaudeville entertainment at 7:30 p.m. at the Wilson Theater, F and Fremont streets ... Mount Harrison Heritage Foundation presents the comedy spoof "The Final Dress Rehearsal" and vaudeville entertainment at 7:30 p.m. at the Wilson Theater, F and Fremont streets ... Mount Harrison Heritage Foundation presents the comedy spoof "The Final Dress Rehearsal" and vaudeville entertainment at 7:30 p.m. at the... (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
So You Think You Can Dance recap: Butt seriously, folks Jun 25, 2009
L/FOG Thursday June 25, 2009. So You Think You Can Dance recap: Butt seriously, folks. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
John Barrymore, the Great Profile Jun 21, 2009 Drew and Barrymore Theatrical Famil... Jun 21, 2009 P-Burg theater opens season Jun 20, 2009 Hangin' With Mr. (Alice) Cooper Jun 20, 2009 Newsweek: The roots of the New York neurotic Jun 20, 2009 Theaters team up, look for top acts Jun 17, 2009 Famous Missourians coming to Bonne Terre Jun 17, 2009 Bronson takes the money and the gun Jun 16, 2009 City Beat (75) Jun 16, 2009 Festival of Hope brings in 32 acts Jun 16, 2009 Dutch folk concert opening Music in the Park series Jun 6, 2009 THE SINGING FUN AT CARLYLE Jun 5, 2009 Bands, bites, booths at summer fests Jun 3, 2009 John King Fisher: Outlaw and Lawma... Jun 3, 2009 Will Rogers: Movie Star and Writer Jun 3, 2009 Stage legend La Rue dies at 81 Jun 2, 2009 Rocky takes key role May 31, 2009 Virginia City Players: Celebrating 60 years May 31, 2009 Pixar's 'Up' is a fantastical voyage May 29, 2009 Bob Hope Gets His Own Stamp May 29, 2009 Old folks rarely find a good home onscreen May 27, 2009 Exit the king of Belvoir St, as an era in theatre closes May 25, 2009 Cherokee Cowboy May 25, 2009 Butte readies for 2nd year of folk festival May 25, 2009 Entertainment Spotlight on Mike Lerner (37) May 22, 2009 Chicago review May 19, 2009 All the right moves May 18, 2009 New Hampshire May 17, 2009 What's Up? May 16, 2009 Scene 13: Central GA Fun...With a Touch of the Good 'Ol Days May 15, 2009 Panic Attack May 11, 2009 Souter, Specter and a Soft Shoe May 11, 2009 One of Last Surviving 'Wizard of Oz' Munchkins Dies May 9, 2009 Obituaries in the news May 8, 2009 Taking a risk May 8, 2009 Baltimore Development Corp. seeking proposals for Charles North properties May 7, 2009 Arts and Entertainment May 5, 2009 Two talent agencies merge: Tying the knot May 2, 2009 The Golden Girls Is Much Edgier Than I Remember Apr 30, 2009 Flapper follies of wild Midwest jazz up our times Apr 28, 2009 Henshaw: Burlesque revival in Quincy? Apr 17, 2009 Kafka's Monkey Apr 17, 2009 The Old Howard revived in Quincy? Apr 15, 2009 Mary Pickford, Lillian Russell, Glo... Apr 13, 2009 From Venice to Varanasi Apr 13, 2009 'Paris 36' is an awkward exercise in nostalgia, French style Apr 10, 2009 The stage is Liza's Cabaret Apr 9, 2009 Board of commissioners again takes low road Apr 9, 2009 New look, new life at Strand Theatre Apr 9, 2009 MSG Documentary Salutes Refurbished Beacon Apr 6, 2009 Uplifting, fun shows this season at MCT Apr 5, 2009 'War Music' an ambitious undertaking for ACT Apr 4, 2009 'Run-DMZ' and the axis of vaudeville Apr 4, 2009 Bill Tapia: String master brings ukulele back Apr 3, 2009 The Man from Mukinupin Apr 3, 2009 • Events calendar Apr 3, 2009 Almighty Voice should take a deep breath Apr 2, 2009 5 Things You Didn't Know: New Yor... Apr 2, 2009 Jerome Anderson (3) Apr 1, 2009 Lowell is no run-of-the-mill film festival Mar 30, 2009 Time for a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T for the local stars Mar 29, 2009 Music's gentle man Mar 28, 2009 A mesmerizing Geoffrey Rush sparks 'Exit the King' Mar 28, 2009 Sean Penn is a Stooge Mar 27, 2009 Infotainment Mar 27, 2009
Over time, he received favorable reviews, critical acclaim, and leading-man status that lead to vaudeville and theatrical success. He was hailed as a matinee idol. (Suite101.com)
Ethel Barrymore First Lady of Ameri... Jun 21, 2009
Vaudeville, Old & New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America by Frank Cullen, Florence Hackman, and Donald McNeilly, Published by Routledge, 2007. The copyright of the article Ethel Barrymore First Lady of American Theatre in is owned by. (Suite101.com)
With his wife Gladys Rankin who died in 1914, he played vaudeville and toured with marital comedies ... When Louisa Drew died August 31, 1897, The New York Times wrote, "Mrs. John Drew probably had a longer career than any other actress. She was a remarkably versatile and intelligent actress, and although her efforts late in life were exclusively confined to comedy, yet she won respect in tragedy as well, and had, in fact, acted all sorts of characters. Maurice Barrymore Resumed Stage Work... (Suite101.com)
For vaudeville fans, Friday, July 3, at 2 p.m. marks the opening of "All Vaudeville Extravaganza!" Bring your whole family to enjoy the hilarity, hijinks and great music provided by the Opera House cast. Colleen Watson, artistic director, and Lizzie Webb at the piano join with Tim Eastman, Suzanne Fortin, Damon Abdallah, Jenn Hogan, Nathan Wright and Ginny Abdallah to present an incredibly enjoyable season at the Opera House Theatre in Philipsburg. (Montana Standard, MT)
His concert are an edgy mix of horror and vaudeville, often made that much edgier when Alice and one of his daughters are paired together. During the song "Only Women Bleed," Alice sits on a flight of steps, with Calico in a skimpy torn dress, her mouth dripping with blood, lying limply across his knees. (CBS News)
Brilliant, hypochondriacal, mordantly and sometimes cruelly witty, both drug-addicted and manic-depressive, he turned his mental instability into subversive vaudeville. As savage on himself ("Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character," he told Jack Parr) as on his targets (When Frank Sinatra Jr. was kidnapped, he said "it must have been done by music critics"), Levant was a blinking, twitching affront to the can-do optimism of the Eisenhower era. (MSNBC -- News)
The state Department of Economic Development and the Fox Theatre Institute are combining to offer advice and organizational assistance to the operators of showplaces that once hosted Vaudeville performances and anchored downtowns. "One of the ultimate challenges is to draw patrons from what has become heavily populated suburban areas where each has its own forms of entertainment," said Charles Scavullo, executive director of The Imperial Theatre in Augusta. (Athens Banner-Herald)
She was recruited for vaudeville shows after she attracted attention with her street-corner dancing and from there found success during the Harlem Renaissance in New York City as a chorus girl. She followed her success to Paris and a successful tour of Europe where she became the most successful American entertainer working in Europe. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
Bronson stars the little-known Tom Hardy, who relates episodes from the title character's violent life inside and outside prison as though he's an old-time vaudeville performer addressing a theatre audience. With no obvious favourite for the Sydney Film Prize this year, three Australian dramas were considered strong contenders after impressing audiences: Steve Jacobs's Disgrace, about a university lecturer dealing with life in post-apartheid South Africa; Khoa Do's Missing Water, on the memories... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Cain Park Alma Concert Series presents Gershwin 29: Echoes from Vaudeville, Broadway and the Silver Screen with singers Joan Ellison and Mark Flanders at 7. Tickets, or 216-371-3000. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Peterson also learned his trade in San Francisco, after seeing an old Vaudeville performer by the name of Edwin Brush give a performance at his church about 50 years ago. Peterson performs all over the mid-valley, most recently at the Strawberry Festival, but also at past Fall Festivals, school shows and many private birthday parties. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Lex Grey and the Urban Pioneers take command of the stage on July 23, thrilling the crowd with Grey s cabaret-style showmanship and solid patchwork of wild rock concert, bar room blues, vaudeville theater and after-hours jazz jam. On July 30, classic rock returns with Johnny Moon , an 11-member strong ensemble of musicians that continue to appease the tastes of local music lovers. (Catskill Daily Mail, NY)
More vaudeville than cabaret act, "Debbie Reynolds: An Evening of Music and Comedy" features medleys and snippets of songs associated with her film and stage career, sprinkled with wisecracks about her failed marriages, most famously to Eddie Fisher. "Hi, I'm Connie Stevens," she tells a ringside patron. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
The event is hosted by Professor Morte and the cast of the Silver Scream Spook Show, who will provide horror show host antics and vaudeville skits between bands. $15. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
They visited several saloons, ending up at the Vaudeville Variety Theater. Thompson was involved in a feud with the owners of the theater and one man had already been killed. (Suite101.com)
He developed a riding and trick-roping act, thrilling people across the U.S. Rogers began incorporating political comments into his act and worked the vaudeville circuit for more than 10 years. With his southwestern drawl and quick wit, in addition to his already amazing roping act, he began to build quite a reputation. (Suite101.com)
He made a career out of his vaudeville drag act although he disliked being called a drag artist. La Rue preferred the term "comic in a frock". (BBC News -- Entertainment)
After an intermission, the evening wraps up with a 30- to 45-minute vaudeville show. Another attraction of the Opera House is the Cremona photoplayer, an air-driven organ with horns, strings and percussion. (Montana Standard, MT)
Ferree's original plays were so good that some were bought by American Vaudeville Theater, Smith said. She learned a lot during those summers when players put on shows seven nights a week and twice on Saturday. (Montana Standard, MT)
Its ambitions are emotional and visual rather than thematic, but on the most basic level the new film is pure vaudeville: a loopy flyaway fantasy that's hysterically funny if only to keep the darkness at bay. It's a wonderful movie - fit for the whole family and for once I mean that as praise - but it doesn't seem designed for a higher purpose the way, say, "WALL-E" did. (Boston Globe)
The Postal Service Honors The Legendary Comedian. Approaching six years after his death, comedian Bob Hope gets the ultimate tribute as the subject of a U.S. postage stamp. (Suite101.com)
The Sunshine BoysProbably Neil Simons best original screenplay deals with a retired vaudeville duo, Lewis (George Burns) and Clark (Walter Matthau), who agree to reunite for a TV spectacular despite the fact that they hate each others guts. While the film signaled the legendary Burns return to popular culture and kicked off a successful final act to a showbiz career almost as notable was the fact that few American movies had centered around elderly men, much less old guys who... (MSNBC -- News)
A number of productions owe a debt to vaudeville and music-hall traditions in their rough-hewn aesthetic and transparent make-believe carnivals in which characters teeter between the comically grotesque and the tragically familiar. "I bring a simplicity of means It's based on a performance style and interactions which are fearless and develop from a trusting rehearsal process. It's a matter of providing a space where every object helps tell the story; it's not decorative but organic, and grows... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Rogers was a Wild West show performer, vaudeville comedian, a movie star and newspaper columnist. But somehow, he was more than any of those things. (BBC News -- Americas)
And the arrival of an estimated 75,000 people revived the copper mining town s heyday as a major destination on the vaudeville circuit, when it attracted such marquee names as Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields and Clark Gable. Butte used to be called the Las Vegas of Montana. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
His Mother, Myrtle, performed in vaudeville and in the early movie industry shared the stage with actress Martha Raye. Lerner was born in Hollywood and grew up around the entertainment business. (Desert Entertainer, CA)
After Watkins's death in 1969 John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse seized on the plot and reframed the story in a vaudeville context. Gaertner became Velma Kelly; Annan, Roxie Hart. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
She's been satirised for her singing and sacked from the spotlight, but Kerri-Anne Kennerley has survived to turn out 10 hours of morning television each week with a mix of vaudeville and women's issues. The Brisbane-born, Sydney-based host of Mornings With Kerri-Anne on Channel Nine learned to think fast on her feet under old boss Kerry Packer - he would address her as "girly" when she hosted her beloved Midday show between 1996 and 1998 - and has paid her way since 2002 in the earlier,... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Hands-on owner Dennis Marka-verich runs the former vaudeville theater and silent-film house next to the town offices. He raised ticket prices last year for the first time since 1991 -- to a whopping six bucks. (Boston Globe)
MARCH OF THE PENGUINS: When was the last time you saw a mohawked vaudeville duo duck flying pingpong balls. Clearly, you've missed GA-MAR-JO-BAT, Japan's answer to crazy physical comedy. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
"It features Lewis and Clark - a vaudeville team that worked together for forty years successfully and mysteriously split up. They haven't spoken for eleven years and now..." The pair reunite for a variety show featuring the best of vaudeville. Though the show is hilarious, it also offers a touching look at human relationships. (13WMAZ.com, GA)
To Beckett s vaudeville of collapse, these performers brought their own unexamined torment. Their confusion magnified the poignance of Beckett s comedy of abdication; their routines Vladimir and Estragon s hat juggling, for instance, a flourish borrowed from the Marx Brothers Duck Soup were transformed from demonstrations of prowess to triumphs over entropy. (New Yorker)
Souter er sounds like a vaudeville song and dance team, stuck in Cleveland and still dreaming of playing the Palace. You can almost hear their Peoria humor and see their old soft shoe. (Townhall.com)
Carroll danced at the Muny Theater in St. Louis when he was in grade school, he once said, and in the 1920s worked in Chicago clubs and on the Orpheum Theater vaudeville circuit. His gift of gab and comedic timing helped his popularity. (Fox News)
Born Michael Finocchiaro, Carroll danced at the Muny Theater in St. Louis when he was in grade school, he said, and in the 1920s worked in Chicago clubs and on the Orpheum Theater vaudeville circuit. He warmed up crowds for President Franklin Roosevelt while campaigning in New York City and served as a crowd-getter in President Harry Truman's whistlestop campaign. (Anchorage Daily News)
"We're not doing a full-blown vaudeville melodrama, but borrowing because it adds to the silliness," he says. Humphrey concedes, even with everything it has going for it "Urinetown" is a risk. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
The design is in the Louis XIV style and was envisioned as a vaudeville performance house with about 1,100 seats, the BDC said. The deadline for proposals is 12 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 7. (Baltimore Business Journal, MD)
the kind with Busby Berkeley choreography, love the nostalgia of little vaudeville theaters and see the appeal of Paris in 1936, a place of little cafes, berets and accordion music but where union organizers face off against fascists as clouds of war gather, then "Paris 36" is a delight you should not miss. (8/15/07) | (4/28/08) (8/23/07) | (4/27/09). (The Current Online, MO)
The older, staid partner is the William Morris Agency, which began representing vaudeville performers in 1898 and gradually expanded. The other is Endeavor, a brash 14-year-old agency that has signed up many rising film stars. (The Economist)
Which brings us to Dorothy Zbornak, who, despite having been raised by Sophia, speaks in the Catskills cracks and vaudeville cadences of Jewish humor. Either Dorothy is intended as a generically ethnic New Yorker or else she picked this up during her decades of marriage to ex-husband Stanley. (Slate)
The main concern of the composer and lyricist was not to make money but diamond-sharp characters and vaudeville tunes that captured the cold underbelly and steamy jazz of the 1920s. When Chicago had its premiere in 1975 it was eclipsed by the sentimental and populist A Chorus Line, which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1976. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Gradually, the playbill and the clientele changed to vaudeville and burlesque. The familiar names changed, too the strippers, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ann Corio, Margie Hart, Lili St. Cyr, Tempest Storm and Sally Keith, the tassel dancer; and the comics, Milton Berle, Eddie Cantor and Red Skelton. (Scituate Mariner, MA)
Kathryn Hunter as vaudeville star Red Peter ... IN BOWLER hat, white tie and tails, the vaudeville star Red Peter (played by the extraordinarily gifted Kathryn Hunter) enters stage left ... Kathryn Hunter as vaudeville star Red Peter. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Gradually, the playbill and the clientele changed to vaudeville and burlesque. The familiar names changed, too --- to the strippers, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ann Corio, Margie Hart, Lili St. Cyr, Tempest Storm and Sally Keith, the tassel dancer; and the comics, Milton Berle, Eddie Cantor and Red Skelton. (Weymouth News, MA)
Edward Eddie Quillan (1907-1990) was born into a successful vaudeville family. As a young man, he began acting in silent films, and he was able to make the transition to talking pictures. (Suite101.com)
Readers of Thomas Bernhard will recognize a familiar vaudeville of despair, whereby every possibility is shadowed by its negation, and nothing can ever be completed, because it is always being ceaselessly re-started. Bernhard is very funny, but despair particularly the menace of suicide and breakdown is always present. (New Yorker)
They love their neighborhood music hall, the Chansonia, and will do anything to ensure its vaudeville tradition won't end. In short, the financial crisis and social upheaval of 1930s France never looked so appealing. (Boston Globe)
Her comic timing, many of her gestures, and much of her songcraft during Tuesday's Toronto show were straight out of vaudeville. In this sense, she has always performed several decades older than she really is. (Globe and Mail)
The curtain should close on this vaudeville act called the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners. The board has repeatedly violated the show-business axiom always leave them wanting more. (Washington Daily News, NC)
Once a majestic vaudeville and movie palace, the Strand opened its doors on Columbia Road in the heart of Uphams Corner on Nov. 11, 1918. Over the years, stars such as Fannie Brice, Milton Berle, and Fred Allen often took center stage. (Boston Globe)
The regional network will bow The Beacon Theatre: A New York Legend Reborn on April 9 at 10 p.m. Produced by Phear Creative in conjunction with MSG, the documentary will explore the theatre's history from the moment it opened its doors as a vaudeville house in 1929, through the restoration and grand re-opening in February 2009, with a Paul Simon concert. Viewers will see a glimpse of this iconic venue via archival concert footage, artist interviews and sit-downs with the promoters who filled it... (Multichannel News)
The comedy, about a vaudeville duo's struggle to reunite, is one of the last comedies by Simon that MCT has never produced. In March, MCT will turn to a much more familiar classic, Grease. (Missoulian, MT)
With few exceptions, such as a bright soft-shoe vaudeville turn by Sharon Lockwood and Ernst, most of Groag's Greek gods scenes strain for laughs they fail to earn (Aphrodite's Botticelli pose wasn't funny the first time). There are also several finely executed scenes, such as one involving the river Scamander, that add nothing to the story or theme. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Asia Times Online :: Korea News and Korean Business and Economy, Pyongyang News. Just over 10 years ago, in 1998, Roy Richard Grinker published his important book Korea and its Futures: Unification and the Unfinished War. (Asia Times Online)
A vaudeville veteran at 13, Tapia helped support his family by busking on Honolulu beaches. By the early 1920s, when jazz was in its infancy, he had figured out how to infuse pop and Hawaiian tunes with a lilting sense of swing on the uke, but his love of jazz soon led him to banjo and guitar. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Enoch's fluid reading is well served by Richard Roberts's sand-floored set (featuring an intriguingly anachronistic caravan) and Rachel Burke's vaudeville hall lighting and shadow play. Jim Cotter's songs, arranged by Allan John and played live on a jangling upright piano, organ and tuba, sparkle intermittently though the creepy atmospheres created on double bass and scratched piano strings are effective. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Snake River Community Players invites performers to participate in an old-style vaudeville variety show, honoring Wendell's centennial. To join, bring a song, dance, skit or other talent to the Wendell High School auditorium from 7 to 9 p.m. APRIL 17 or 9 a.m. to noon APRIL 18. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
The play is divided into two: Half tells Almighty Voice's story in a straightforward, lyrical manner, and half takes the story's cultural baggage apart through a postmodern vaudeville act. But first acts first: In Moses's sympathetic version of the legend - told in nine scenes, each meant to represent one phase of the lunar cycle - Almighty Voice (Derek Garza) has a young wife (Cara Gee) and the cow is killed for their wedding feast. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
People thought the slang came from vaudeville. Vaudevillian Billy Tucker called New York the "Big Apple" in the Chicago Defender newspaper as early as 1922. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
He started a vaudeville variety show for legislative entertainment in the 1960s that is the precursor to today s Legislative Attach Party. Jerry s shows were complete with costumes, dancing secretaries, music and lyrics he wrote himself with the help of a friend who was a Broadway producer. (Helena Independent Record)
The RKO Keith on Bridge Street was a regular stop on the vaudeville circuit, but was razed for parking in 1976. There were others - the Rialto, the Crown, the Royal, the State. (Boston Globe)
In the midst of "Gypsy," the fabled Broadway musical about the ambitions of an indefatigable stage mother loosely based on the life of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, the Mama Rose character yearns for billing for her vaudeville troupers. You know, name recognition that would validate these struggling performers. (Honolulu Advertiser)
" Little was born under a gum tree on the banks of the Murray in 1937. He is a member of the Yorta Yorta tribe. His parents, James and Frances, were part of a travelling vaudeville troupe. Music was their life, and his, and it became through the random tragedy of life a balm, too. His mother died when he was a teenager, and songs became, in his words, his medication. He sees himself at age 72 as a link through the years. The Messenger album strengthened Little's voice so that a new generation... (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)
The actor is a total chameleon, part vaudeville comic, part circus clown, part overwrought tragedian, in his larger-than-life portrayal of a monarch who's dying while his kingdom collapses around him -- dying, but refusing to go quietly. "I will die when I feel like it," he sniffs royally. (WSVN-TV Miami, FL)
Oscar-winner Sean Penn is set to star in 'The Three Stooges', a comedy based on the classic 1930s vaudeville trio, reports said Wednesday. Penn (48), who scooped his second best actor Academy Award last month for his performance in 'Milk', was being lined up to play Larry in the film, which is being put together by Peter and Bobby Farrelly. (iAfrica.com)
Oscar-winner Sean Penn is set to star in The Three Stooges, a comedy based on the classic 1930s vaudeville trio, reports said. Penn, 48, who scooped his second best actor Academy Award last month for his performance in Milk, was being lined up to play Larry in the film, which is being put together. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
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