Vaudeville
Vaudeville, a collection of disparate acts (comedians, jugglers, and dancers) marketed mainly to a family audience, emerged in the 1880s and quickly became a national industry controlled by...
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Manila (dpa) - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
ordered her cabinet members on Wednesday to attend a senate probe on
an allegedly anomalous 330-million-dollar br...
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Two centuries of kvetching, kvetching, kvetching. That's New York-ese _ Yiddish, actually _ for complaining, complaining, complaining. And it's the subject of a new booklet of letters both fun...
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Peggy Gilbert, a noted saxophonist who helped female jazz musicians gain acceptance over a decades-long career of leading all-women ensembles, has died. She was 102.A Los Angeles resident, she died...
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American dancer (b. Oct. 20, 1914,
Mobile, Ala.
—d. Jan. 24, 2006, Toluca Lake,
Calif.
), with his brother,
Harold
, made up the world-famous tap-dancing duo the Nicholas Brothers. They de...
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For the last couple of weeks, the proprietors of the exclusive Chrystie Street burlesque venue The Box have been previewing what they call a “totally different†ex...
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The DNA Lounge was a real circus the night The Mutaytor came to town. The band looked like a bunch of clowns. Young contortionists folded their limbs like fortune cookies above and around the stage...
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Matthew Broderick will portray a man at sea, adrift in a mid-life crisis that unfolds in "The Starry Messenger," Kenneth Lonergan's new play, which will receive its world premiere during the 2007-2...
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"In the Heights," the lively off-Broadway musical about Latino residents of New York's Washington Heights, will be getting a Broadway address.The critically praised show, which features music and l...
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Vilma Ebsen, who danced in the film "Broadway Melody of 1936" with her brother Buddy long before he became famous on "The Beverly Hillbillies," has died. She was 96.Vilma Ebsen, a dance instructor ...
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Vaudeville
Philippine leader orders cabinet to attend senate probe
