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the heyday of vaudeville,
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This review is from: From Traveling Show to Vaudeville: Theatrical Spectacle in America, 1830-1910 (Hardcover)
Lewis recreates the heyday of vaudeville in the US, from 1830 to 1910. Before mass electronic communication like radio or TV, vaudeville was one of the unifying phenomena of the young country. In the small towns, or even the large cities, there was very little to do, recreationally. So any live travelling show was often the only game in town, when it arrived.
In this lengthy account, Lewis shows the many famous acts that traversed the nation. Now mostly only surviving as faded playbills and written accounts. Why the cutoff date of 1910? It was chosen as a simple demarcation. After this date, the silent movies, and then radio and the talkies and finally TV, came on the scene. The mass electronica that would overwhelm vaudeville, and push its survivors into the fringes. |
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From Traveling Show to Vaudeville: Theatrical Spectacle in America, 1830-1910 by Robert M. Lewis (Paperback - October 4, 2007)
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