Vaudeville Vaudeville The Al Hirschfeld Theatre is a notable Broadway theatre at 302 W. 45th Street in Manhattan. Designed by architect G. Albert Lansburgh, the theatre was originally opened by vaudeville promoter Martin Beck as the Martin Beck Theatre on November 11, 1924, with a production of Mme. Pompadour. It premiered The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw and Winterset and High Tor by Maxwell Anderson. The theatre was sold to Jujamcyn in 1968. On June 21 2003 it was renamed the Al Hirschfeld theatre in honor of the caricaturist famous for his drawings of Broadway celebrities, and reopened on November 23, 2003 with a revival of the musical Wonderful Town. ...more on Wikipedia about "Al Hirschfeld Theatre"
Hello, nurse! or Hello Nurse can have two meanings, one relating to vaudeville and one relating to the 1990s animated television series Animaniacs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hello Nurse"
The Palace Theatre located at 1564 Broadway in New York City, is a Broadway theatre described by its owner as "the Valhalla of vaudeville." The theatre was built by Martin Beck in 1913 and opened with vaudeville shows from the Keith Circuit. From its opening to its change to cinema, the palace lured the best and brightest in vaudeville. ...more on Wikipedia about "Palace Theatre, New York"
Theater Owners Booking Association or T.O.B.A. was the vaudeville circuit for African American performers in the 1920s and 1930s. The theaters all had white owners and collaborated in booking jazz, blues, comedians, and other performers for black audiences. The organization started in 1909 with 31 theaters and had more than 100 theaters at its peak in the 1920s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Theater Owners Bookers Association"
Tin Pan Alley was the name given to the collection of New York City-centered music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States of America in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tin Pan Alley"
Antonio Pastor, born May 28, 1837 in Brooklyn, New York, United States – died August 26, 1908 in Elmhurst, New York, was a variety performer and theatre owner who became of the founding forces behind American vaudeville in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. The strongest elements of his entertainments were an almost jingoistic brand of United States patriotism and a strong commitment to attracting a mixed-gender audience, the latter being something revolutionary in the male-oriented variety halls of the mid-century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tony Pastor"
Vaudeville is a style of multi-act theatre which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. An evening's "bill" (or schedule of performances) could run the gamut from acrobats to mathematicians, from song-and-dance duos to trick high divers. Indeed, the scope of the presentations was unique in the history of American live performance: music, comedy, feats of athleticism, magic, animal acts, opera, Shakespeare, banjo, acrobatics and gymnastics, and lectures by celebrities and intellectuals of every scale. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vaudeville"
Ventriloquism is an act of deception in which a person (ventriloquist) manipulates his or her voice so that it appears that the voice is coming from elsewhere. The Greeks called this gastromancy. Linguists claim that the technique of making sounds while giving away no clues about actually talking must have been discovered thousands of years ago and was aptly used by early chieftains and tribesmen, who acted as mediums between men and supernatural forces. Religions based on divine communications also rely on this skill which was originally performed from within a template, a circle drawn at sufficient distance from the audience so that the trick would be difficult to discover. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ventriloquism"
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