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Vaudeville was a form of live entertainment featuring a variety of short acts such as dancers, clowns, acrobats, singers, and comedians performing on the same stage. It was a popular and accessible form of theater that brought diverse entertainment to audiences in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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- Instance of
- theatrical genre
- Subclass of
- variety
- Followed by
- burlesque
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- Category:Vaudeville
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P8168
- North Omotic
- Commons category
- Vaudeville
- native label
- vaudeville
- replaced by
- burlesque
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15 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Beginnings
- Popularity
- Women
- Black vaudeville
- Immigrant America
- Selected vaudeville artists
- Decline
- Architecture
- Vaudeville's cultural influence and legacy
- Archives
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
thumb|A promotional poster for the Sandow Trocadero Vaudevilles (1894), showing dancers, clowns, trapeze artists, costumed dogs, singers and costumed actors
Vaudeville (; ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which became popular in the United States and Canada from the early 1870s until the early 1930s.
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