Author : Brett Page
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Vaudeville
ISBN : UOM:39015016919386
Writing for Vaudeville
Brett Page
Writing For Vaudeville
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No Applause--Just Throw Money
Trav S.D.
Author : Trav S.D.
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781429930413
No Applause--Just Throw Money by Trav S.D. Pdf
A seriously funny look at the roots of American Entertainment When Groucho Marx and Charlie Chaplin were born, variety entertainment had been going on for decades in America, and like Harry Houdini, Milton Berle, Mae West, and countless others, these performers got their start on the vaudeville stage. From 1881 to 1932, vaudeville was at the heart of show business in the States. Its stars were America's first stars in the modern sense, and it utterly dominated American popular culture. Writer and modern-day vaudevillian Trav S.D. chronicles vaudeville's far-reaching impact in No Applause--Just Throw Money. He explores the many ways in which vaudeville's story is the story of show business in America and documents the rich history and cultural legacy of our country's only purely indigenous theatrical form, including its influence on everything from USO shows to Ed Sullivan to The Muppet Show and The Gong Show. More than a quaint historical curiosity, vaudeville is thriving today, and Trav S.D. pulls back the curtain on the vibrant subculture that exists across the United States--a vast grassroots network of fire-eaters, human blockheads, burlesque performers, and bad comics intent on taking vaudeville into its second century.
Writing for Vaudeville
Brett Page
Author : Brett Page
Publisher : Pinnacle Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1374934755
Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page Pdf
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Queen of Vaudeville
Andrew L. Erdman
Author : Andrew L. Erdman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801465284
Queen of Vaudeville by Andrew L. Erdman Pdf
In her day, Eva Tanguay (1879–1947) was one of the most famous women in America. Widely known as the "I Don't Care Girl"—named after a song she popularized and her independent, even brazen persona—Tanguay established herself as a vaudeville and musical comedy star in 1901 with the New York City premiere of the show My Lady—and never looked back. Tanguay was, at the height of a long career that stretched until the early 1930s, a trend-setting performer who embodied the emerging ideal of the bold and sexual female entertainer. Whether suggestively singing songs with titles like "It's All Been Done Before But Not the Way I Do It" and "Go As Far As You Like" or wearing a daring dress made of pennies, she was a precursor to subsequent generations of performers, from Mae West to Madonna and Lady Gaga, who have been both idolized and condemned for simultaneously displaying and playing with blatant displays of female sexuality. In Queen of Vaudeville, Andrew L. Erdman tells Eva Tanguay's remarkable life story with verve. Born into the family of a country doctor in rural Quebec and raised in a New England mill town, Tanguay found a home on the vaudeville stage. Erdman follows the course of her life as she amasses fame and wealth, marries (and divorces) twice, engages in affairs closely followed in the press, declares herself a Christian Scientist, becomes one of the first celebrities to get plastic surgery, loses her fortune following the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and receives her last notice, an obituary in Variety. The arc of Tanguay's career follows the history of American popular culture in the first half of the twentieth century. Tanguay's appeal, so dependent on her physical presence and personal charisma, did not come across in the new media of radio and motion pictures. With nineteen rare or previously unpublished images, Queen of Vaudeville is a dynamic portrait of a dazzling and unjustly forgotten show business star.
American Vaudeville
Geoffrey Hilsabeck
Author : Geoffrey Hilsabeck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1952271061
American Vaudeville by Geoffrey Hilsabeck Pdf
A dreamlike, evocative reckoning with a lost epoch in popular culture--and with old, weird America. At the heart of American Vaudeville is one strange, unsettling fact: for nearly fifty years, from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, vaudeville was everywhere--then, suddenly, it was nowhere. This book tells the story of what was once the most popular form of entertainment in the country using lists, creation myths, thumbnail biographies, dreams, and obituaries. A lyric history--part social history, part song--American Vaudeville sits at the nexus between poetry, experimental nonfiction, and, because it includes historic images, art books. Geoffrey Hilsabeck's book grows out of extensive archival research. Rather than arranging that research--the remains of vaudeville--into a realistic picture or tidy narrative, Hilsabeck dreams vaudeville back into existence, drawing on photographs, letters, joke books, reviews, newspaper stories, anecdotes, and other material gathered from numerous archives, as well as from memoirs by vaudeville performers like Buster Keaton, Eva Tanguay, and Eddie Cantor. Some of this research is presented as-is, a letter from a now forgotten vaudeville performer to her booking agent, for example; some is worked up into brief scenes and biographies; and some is put to even more imaginative uses, finding new life in dialogues and prose poems. American Vaudeville pulls the past into the present and finds in the beauty and carnivalesque grotesqueness of vaudeville a fitting image of American life today.
Writing for Vaudeville
Brett Page
Author : Brett Page
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:630294172
Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page Pdf
Writing for Vaudeville
Brett Page
Author : Brett Page
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Comedy sketches
ISBN : HARVARD:32044084550870
Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page Pdf
Writing for Vaudeville
Brett Page
Author : Brett Page
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Vaudeville
ISBN : OCLC:1422546155
Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page Pdf
From Traveling Show to Vaudeville
Robert M. Lewis
Author : Robert M. Lewis
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801887482
From Traveling Show to Vaudeville by Robert M. Lewis Pdf
Before phonographs and moving pictures, live performances dominated American popular entertainment. Carnivals, circuses, dioramas, magicians, mechanical marvels, musicians, and theatrical troupes—all visited rural fairgrounds, small-town opera houses, and big-city palaces around the country, giving millions of people an escape from their everyday lives for a dime or a quarter. In From Traveling Show to Vaudeville, Robert M. Lewis has assembled a remarkable collection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century primary sources that document America's age of theatrical spectacle. In eight parts, Lewis explores, in turn, dime museums, minstrelsy, circuses, melodramas, burlesque shows, Wild West shows, amusement parks, and vaudeville. Included in this compendium are biographies, programs, ephemera produced by theatrical entrepreneurs to lure audiences to their shows, photographs, scripts, and song lyrics as well as newspaper accounts, reviews, and interviews with such figures as P. T. Barnum and Buffalo Bill Cody. Lewis also gives us reminiscences about and reactions to various shows by members of audiences, including such prominent writers as Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, O. Henry, and Maxim Gorky. Each section also includes a concise introduction that places the genre of spectacle into its historical and cultural context and suggests major interpretive themes. The book closes with a bibliographic essay that identifies relevant scholarly works. Many of the pieces collected here have not been published since their first appearance, making From Traveling Show to Vaudeville an indispensable resource for historians of popular culture, theater, and nineteenth-century American society.
American Vaudeville as Seen by Its Contemporaries
Charles W. Stein
Author : Charles W. Stein
Publisher : New York : Knopf
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015050783508
American Vaudeville as Seen by Its Contemporaries by Charles W. Stein Pdf
Chekhov and the Vaudeville
Vera Gottlieb
Author : Vera Gottlieb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1982-08-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521241700
Chekhov and the Vaudeville by Vera Gottlieb Pdf
This book examines the strangely neglected area of Chekhov's one-act plays, written between 1885 and 1903. Still frequently performed, they reveal many of the comic and distancing effects which are to be found in the major plays and tell us as much about Chekhov's philosophy as his use of theatre.
Rank Ladies
M. Alison Kibler
Author : M. Alison Kibler
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807876053
Rank Ladies by M. Alison Kibler Pdf
A disrobing acrobat, a female Hamlet, and a tuba-playing labor activist--all these women come to life in Rank Ladies. In this comprehensive study of women in vaudeville, Alison Kibler reveals how female performers, patrons, and workers shaped the rise and fall of the most popular live entertainment at the turn of the century. Kibler focuses on the role of gender in struggles over whether high or low culture would reign in vaudeville, examining women's performances and careers in vaudeville, their status in the expanding vaudeville audience, and their activity in the vaudevillians' labor union. Respectable women were a key to vaudeville's success, she says, as entrepreneurs drew women into audiences that had previously been dominated by working-class men and recruited female artists as performers. But although theater managers publicly celebrated the cultural uplift of vaudeville and its popularity among women, in reality their houses were often hostile both to female performers and to female patrons and home to women who challenged conventional understandings of respectable behavior. Once a sign of vaudeville's refinement, Kibler says, women became associated with the decay of vaudeville and were implicated in broader attacks on mass culture as well.
Once Upon a Stage
Charles Samuels,Louise Samuels
Author : Charles Samuels,Louise Samuels
Publisher : Dodd Mead
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015011245662
Once Upon a Stage by Charles Samuels,Louise Samuels Pdf
Blue Vaudeville
Andrew L. Erdman
Author : Andrew L. Erdman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786431151
Blue Vaudeville by Andrew L. Erdman Pdf
"Important figures from the vaudeville stage such as Annette Kellerman and Eva Tanguay are presented in depth. The work provides an historical context for understanding these performers and appreciating their rebelliousness. It discusses censorship and content control, and concludes with an analysis of the role of the cinema in the fall of vaudeville. Many photographs, cartoons, and other illustrations are included."--BOOK JACKET.
The Life Fantastic
Liza Ketchum
Author : Liza Ketchum
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781440598777
The Life Fantastic by Liza Ketchum Pdf
As seen in the Publishers Weekly African-American Titles for Young Readers feature! Will Teresa Find Fame But Lose Her Soul? It's 1913 and vaudeville is America's most popular form of entertainment. Thousands of theaters across the country host vaudeville troupes. In Brattleboro, Vermont, fifteen-year-old Teresa LeClair--who has a "voice like a nightingale"--remembers the thrill of singing onstage as a child. But her parents have given up life on the road, and her father has decided that Teresa, blessed with perfect pitch, should drop out of school and work in the tuning rooms of the organ factory. Determined to escape the life her father wants for her, Teresa wins an amateur singing contest in Brattleboro's opera house and steals away on the night train to New York. She hopes to become a star on Broadway's "Great White Way," but has no idea of the challenges that lie ahead. There she runs into Pietro Jones and his father, talented African American dancers. Teresa and Pietro become competitors as well as unlikely friends. At a time when young black men could be lynched for simply looking at a white girl, Pietro understands, better than Teresa, the danger of their relationship. Teresa's quest to find her voice onstage and in her life, far from the support of her family, takes place against a complex racial backdrop of American history.
