Here is the first-ever collection of classic comic sketches from the bawdy, rowdy world of our slum music halls! Habitues of Burlesque (and sons of habitues) will revel in the boisterous stock scenes and blackouts of this uniquely American form of popular entertainment. Features a foreword by Dick Martin.
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This review is from: The Best Burlesque Sketches: As Adapted for Sugar Babies and Other Entertainments (Paperback)
Peter Larkin is a real lover of old time Burlesque. He's lovingly researched the old sketches, and updated them making them more accessable for a modern audience. He's done a wonderful job, and this volume is a great resource. Between the sketches and Mr. Larkin's excellent notes the reader really gets to see what this lost form of entertainment was all about.
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Sad to say there is no native American form of dramain the sense of a realized literary style uniquely reflective of the spirit of the New World. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Sugar Babies, Billy Hagan, Esau Buck, Madame Gazaza, Mickey Rooney, Big Bullets, Ann Miller, The Transformer, Bert Carr, Miss Jones, Ernest Flatt, The Naughty Nifties, The Westfall Murder Case New!
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Sad to say there is no native American form of dramain the sense of a realized literary style uniquely reflective of the spirit of the New World. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gazeeka box, comic enters, rubber balloons, liver trouble Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Sugar Babies, Billy Hagan, Esau Buck, Madame Gazaza, Mickey Rooney, Big Bullets, Ann Miller, The Transformer, Bert Carr, Miss Jones, Ernest Flatt, The Naughty Nifties, The Westfall Murder Case New!
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- Sugar Babies by Ralph G. Allen in Front Matter, page 7, and page 200
- University of Tennessee by Jacob Williams on page 6
- THE AMERICAN DREAM. by Edward. Albee on page 10
- The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre by Don B. Wilmeth on page 80
- The Haunted Smile: The Story Of Jewish Comedians In America by Lawrence J. Epstein in Back Matter
- The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America by Lawrence J. Epstein in Back Matter
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