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Who is that girl in the "dumb bull" skit.🤩

I do an act called The Junkshop Philosopher that keeps getting compared to vaudeville so checked this out. Fantastic documentary.

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Bonito

Thank you! This is fascinating

My mom was a ballet dancer….she brought me up in theater….my parents exposed me to show business at an early age….i got to see backstage at plays concerts and recitals …..I learned it’s all about creating the hype then the show if the show is engaging then the people will eat it up…..THEY WANT TO BE ENTERTAINED…..SO GIVE THEM A SHOW…..BIG MOVES BIG PASSION = BIG APPLAUSE 🎉

'PromoSM' 👊

Love the eclectic dance of Fosse. Jazz, ballet, body isolation movements. Unique from Astaire, Kelley, Balanchine, Donald O'Connor. Some of it becomes too much of the same. Has anyone expanded on this type of choreography?

Is LeVar Burton from Reading Rainbow the narrator?

Not enough of the topless showgirls and too much of the other stuff .which was totally boring, plus the lighting was horrible

I never knew the closing acts were usually bad so the theatres would clear out early. What a wonderful collection of interviews, clips and info.

Wonderful

Fosse, Fosse one. Fosse, Fosse two!

George Soros has a serious chokehold on PBS

The woke poking fun at our tradition

This commentator insults me

She was the best

In the early 1990's, I was living in a rural smaller town area called Blackfoot, Idaho. I would stare at an old framed photo on the wall, a gathering of men wearing women's clothing. I always wondered what in the heck it was. Decades past, I moved out of Idaho but I found the picture again on an Idaho history FB page. There was a clue in the picture, a circus poster. People in the FB group helped me figure out the mystery, it was a Vaudeville group that was travelling thru Idaho by train, pre WW1. They had stopped in downtown Blackfoot and posed for the picture.

propaganda is crazy lmao

ذرحت *بوبنا قدام العالم.. توا انتي راجل ؟ تلو في حزامك كي لمرا

Busker legend is akin to mudracker legend. Not exactly Shakespeare but instead rooming house and vomit with excess lint

It was the tic tock of its day.

Every time I watch Ken Allen I'm in awe. Just can't take your eyes off of him. Something quite grand in his dancing. Bravo!

This is so great, too bad the states has no respect for the past. Everything always has to be new and approved, out with old in with the new. This Vaudeville could have survived given little respect, it might have changed a bit but it could have survive. 😢

I read once that the world almost never heard of the Nicholas Brothers because there were some folks who didn't want them filmed or seen in or on anything mainstream. They were actively trying to destroy children! Can you believe it?! Sad.... What I feel bad for is all you didn't get to see. The people in this video were only the ones who got famous enough to be filmed. There was a ton of talent that never got the spotlight....

Not Haydn but Vivaldi Four Seasons

Really gorgeous

Excellent upload 👍

Vaudeville is not dead. Look at shows like America's Got Talent and the variety of weird talents and unique entertainments out there.

I can't believe this documentary left out the immortal Kid Jersey. He invented the term 'thank you,' for pete's sake.

People who favor old bookshop'smay find a copy of Fred Allen's memoir "Much Ado About Me." The characters deal ing with his years in Vaudeville. He recounts the condition s and the personality who made it.

So many talented acts performing live to their audiences. Each with their own unique style of entertainment. Such an exciting time to be in show business! Loved by people from all walks of life, from small towns to large cities from ordinary people to Presidents.

it hit an off beat at 43:00 ... but 54:00 might be the actual funniest thing I've seen in a video, at all.

Ginger Rogers pretty much "kept" her real name: Ginger came to be because her little neice couldn't pronounce "Virginia" Legend says that Ginger and Lucy Ball were distant cousins - both born in 1911

Lucy Ball was a riot in real life at times. Claimed that she didn't know Vaudeville was pretty much "dead" by 193O, she forgot to put bananas in banana splits working behind the counter of a drug store!

June Havoc had a wonderful speaking voice; she lived to 97, too

I am not so sure this form of mostly untalented silliness is not still alive and well, it is just tic tok now, or whatever.

Vaudeville was the fire under the ' great melting pot' from which emerged the American sense of humor, good spirited, self effacing , ethnic humor. " Laugh at me, I'm German, or Irish, or Jewish, or Black.......... but you wouldn't be laughing if you didn't understand what I am saying."

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Hadji Ali on 26:00

42:32 That joke still hits 100+ years later

It's crazy that "Cary Me Back to Old Virginny" Was VA's state song until 1997!

The next time you happen upon something like the Renaissance Faire, take note of the stage shows like "Broon" or "Moonie" or even the acrobatic shows. Vaudeville still exists in these forms today and you'll find some of them even have lineage back to the original Vaudevillian days. While my great grandfather "Stan Stanley" wrote "The Pleasure Man" with Mae West and was one of the witnesses next to her in court in 1930 (NYC kept busting their plays), the theater tradition didn't make it through the generations due to family issues. But my grandmother always had stories about her father for me and I have a small treasure trove of keepsakes (Vaudeville fliers, photos, newspaper clippings, etc.). The furthest I ever got was indeed doing street theater gigs at the Faire (you could say it's low level performance as it's all improv but it takes good skill). Faire always felt like family to me and maybe there's something to all that. Even when you see the actual street performers in places like Hollywood, where Batman and Spiderman have a rap-off, that's Vaudeville people. It still lives in a slew of current forms. Throw a dollar in the hat, stick around and clap before you leave. What little is left should be appreciated.

Ha! in the 1880's Irish, Jews, Germans and Slavs is pretty much all they would let in! tsk tsk

I had this on vhs tape as a kid and it was my first introduction to ballet and the nutcracker. I have been searching for it for YEARS and I am so happy to have finally found it again. Thank you!! ❤❤

My great grandmother was one of Florence Ziegfeld's girls in the follies. Her husband was a grip working the stage during the elaborate performances. They traveled the country and did vaudeville road shows before settling down with a family. The performance bug got to the family and everyone on my father's side was a vaudeville performer. Drag shows, comedy skits, dance and music performances, you name it. The shed by the side of the house didn't hold yard tools..it held costumes, wigs and props. I only have one reel of footage from this side of the family, so it's nice to see what they could have been doing..it helps me understand where I come from.

These articulate have their career and lives destroyed now. We need to get back to when we could laugh at ourselves, instead taking everything and everyone so seriously. What we need to "wake up to" is how miserable we are making ourselves now

1. I don't think I've ever seen Gypsy Rose Lee's little sister (June Havoc) in a documentary 2. That clip with Trixie Friganza singing about the hula girl has to be one of the strangest songs I've ever heard, and believe me, I've heard many.

GREAT DOCUMENTARY ! WEDNESDAY 10/5/22 OCTOBER 5, 2022

Ooooh no. I’m in the rabbit hole.