The reliance on formal, text-based analysis does leave some questions concerning the influence of other forms of entertainment culture such as theatre andvaudeville.From theCambridge English Corpus
It could do this only by exploiting what were effectively newly invented types of music drama:vaudevilleavec airs nouveaux and opéra de genre.From theCambridge English Corpus
Immigrant and working-class patrons largely suppliedvaudevillewith talent and audiences.From theCambridge English Corpus
He sought out an international repertory the scope of which no other theatre could match, to say nothing ofvaudeville.From theCambridge English Corpus
Managerial attempts to feminizevaudevillesimultaneously created friction between traditional vaudevillians and ' ' legitimate ' ' performers.From theCambridge English Corpus
A request from a bar owner in 1843 to form avaudevillesociety was promptly turned down by the local authorities.From theCambridge English Corpus
In the finalvaudeville, as was the custom, every character appears on stage to sum up the lessons he or she has learned.From theCambridge English Corpus
These instances of consecration notably included the establishment ofvaudevilletheatre and music score publishing houses.From theCambridge English Corpus
Recent literature onvaudevilleand timbre in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is extensive.From theCambridge English Corpus
These progenitors include the ballad opera and burlesque, the minstrel show and operetta, the revue andvaudeville.From theCambridge English Corpus
This only makes it more curious that he should have ended his career invaudeville.From theCambridge English Corpus
Hints of early 1900svaudevillemerged with touches of 1950s sideshow.From theCambridge English Corpus
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries public meetings, concerts, vaudevilles, theater plays, and the like were commonly held in these chambers and were very popular.From theCambridge English Corpus
The style of singing opera was directly related to the style of singing ofvaudeville, operetta, and musical comedy, so the ubiquitous tremolo did not trouble contemporary ears.From theCambridge English Corpus
Film appeared as one attraction on thevaudevillestage, surrounded by a mass of unrelated acts in a nonnarrative and even nearly illogical succession of performances' (p. 66-88).From theCambridge English Corpus
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