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Popular Entertainment Flashcards

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Tony Pastor

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(1837-1908)

  • built 14th St. Theatre
  • “Father of Vaudeville”
  • “Variety” : Trade paper
  • wanted to clean up variety shows –> make them more affordable and suited for family
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Variety

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  • Pre Civil War
  • catered more to men
  • Medicine Shows
  • Circus Concerts
  • Dime Museums
  • Town Hall Entertainments
  • Concert Saloons
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Medicine Shows

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  • Selling some kind of ‘medicine’ or ‘elixir’

- Mostly phony

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Circus Concerts

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-featured a ballyhoo (gimmick) –> usually animals or a parade or a band or any crazy combo of the three

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Dime Museums

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  • specialized in exploiting rare human oddities
  • charged people 10 cents to get in
  • “freak shows”
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Town Hall Entertainments

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  • typically held in government buildings

- art shows, music, stage performances

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Concert Saloons

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  • taverns that sold entertainment and booze

- primarily for men

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The Palace Theatre

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  • “The Bigtime”

- Major Vaudeville theatre in NYC

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Vaudeville Performers

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  • Martha Ray
  • Buster Keaton
  • George Burns
  • Jack Benny
  • W.C. Fields
  • Gypsy Rose Lee
  • Archie Leach –> AKA Cary Grant
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Vaudeville Act

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  • 8 to 10 minutes onstage
  • 2X a day usaully
  • A short entertaining bit that varied with the talent/schtick of the performer
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Minstrelsy/Minstrel Show

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  • comic skits/music and dancing
  • blackface
  • performers were also known as “Ethiopian Delineators”
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Thomas D. Rice (1808-1860)

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  • first person to popularize minstrelsy

- 1830 –> “Jumpin’ Jim Crow”

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Christy Minstrels

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  • Edwin Pearce Christy
  • 3 act minstrel show– Tambo and Bones
  • Stump Speech
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Burlesque

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  • “Leg Art”
  • Variety show
  • Striptease
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Evolution of Burlesque

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  • 1750-1868 –> parodies of traditional forms of theatre
  • 1869-1921 –> Modern Burlesque
  • 1922-1940s –> nudity (smutt)
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Antecedents of Burlesque

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  • Honky Tonks –> low end night club
  • Turkey Shows –> around the holidays
  • Behind the Tent Shows –> rural, raunchy, smut, cheap
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Coochers

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  • performers in a Burlesque show

- name comes from a dance called the “Hootchie-cootchie” –> very suggestive

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Little Egypt

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  • Burlesque show starring Catherine Devine

- featured “The Hootchie-cootchie”

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Minsky Brothers

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  • created and implemented the runway in Burlesque
  • wanted performers to parade closer to the audience
  • introduced the striptease
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Elements of the Striptease

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  • flash/entrance
  • parade
  • tease
  • strip
  • retreat
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The Circus

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  • PT Barnum popularized it in US
  • dates back to Circus Maximus in Rome
  • truly started with Philip Astley in England
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Philip Astley

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  • equestrian who popularized the Circus in Britain and helped to spread its influence throughout the world
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“Mud Shows”

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-original name for the circus –> traveled through muddy conditions

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PT Barnum (Phineas Taylor)

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  • “there’s a sucker born every minute”
  • con man who exploited people with oddities/differences
  • made a fortune on the circus
  • American Museum
  • Barnum and Bailey’s “The Greatest Show on Earth”
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James A. Bailey

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  • financial backer of Barnum’s schemes

- helped to create Barnum and Bailey’s

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John Ringling

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  • most well known of the Ringling Bros

- Ringling Bros bought Barnum and Bailey’s in 1920s

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Chautauqua

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  • Chautauqua Institute
  • Performed under tents
  • arts, education, religion, recreation
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Lyceum

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  • lecture series
  • winter time
  • notable people –> Daniel Webster, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain
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Tom Shows

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-touring productions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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“Tomming”

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-the act of performing in Tom Shows

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“Tommers”

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-performers in Tom Shows

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Showboats

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  • shows on boats!
  • brought entertainment to rural areas around waterways
  • “The Floating Theatre”
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William B. Chapman

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  • founder of Showboats
  • “The Floating Theatre” – Pittsburgh to New Orleans
  • British

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