...William Kleb Copyright © THEATER 1987 1987 INEW VAUDEVILLE FESTIVAL: FEATS OF IDIOSYNCRACY WILLIAM KLEB hen a theater festival takes place in an academic...

... Sasha Zeif The Spectacle of Folly mal training in ballet, music and dramatic literature. There is, I thoroughly believe, as much dyed- Despite having individual careers, these in-the-wool vaudeville . . . on tap around New performers...

.... While pursuing his medical studies at Moscow University 33 in the early 1880s, Chekhov wrote another vaudeville The drenched eyes," whereat the editor remarks, "The last verse Clean-shauen...

... a "dean," family-type entertainment, ensconced in "opera houses" and given a dignified name: vaudeville. Surviving until its gradual displacement by the motion pictures, vaudeville was organized into circuits, the most powerful of which was the Keith Orpheum...

... Marching Band, the World’s One and Only MONSEU rock venues without working toilets to gorgeous Brother and Sister Bed of Nails Act, David renovated vaudeville and opera houses. One Didd the slack-wire walker, and Mr...

... Galasso’s violin music and the drumming of a young Iranian man often accom- panied these activities. $ Value activities were divided into “Free,” “Casino,” and “Vaudeville” segments. “Free” movement sections were directed by Andrew dffiroat. “Casino” sections were directed by Wilson...

...- g:ii5hed classical essential co drama. lt always remained a pri- 'Jaie (IY/i:holog/ or, more accu- J a persona! mcmorv since the consisted ot recollected as he lies sick in a 1105• the form of vaudeville skits...

... number keeps increasing after this, Karl: Royal tea? vaudeville will never be the same. From here to the Winter Palace in Groucho...

... and dance routine. The play is a Do1 Common: vaudeville of theatrical languages per- Troth, I am taken, sir, formed in a room filled with icons-of learn...

... of primary impor- Audiences came to the theater to enjoy Nestroy’s clowning. His tance, but restitution has not stayed in step with it. performance overshadowed his scripts, which were mostly simple French vaudevilles quickly...

... face, now dripping tears. He speaks, and mode of communication can reach so when people flocked to theaters and dubbed Spanish comes out - this is many people so quickly - and in living, burlesque houses and vaudevilles and SIN, the Spanish-speaking...

...) ASSISTANT DIRECTED RALPH HILTON SECT IONS 4/4A JAMES NEU PRODUCTION COOR Pot DINATOR JAMES FINGUERRA VAUDEVILLE Pot SCRIPT COORDINATOR CAROL MULLINS CA SIN0...

... event “Holocaustn went through and the indicated political one that the reconstruct Auschwitz using elements of my mind. Headlines in Axel Springeis Freie Volksbiihne prhction seeks to un- vaudeville. What is being tried here, is newspapers like “Rudi Weiss marries Liz mask. One can only...

... of dance at the height of the Pas de Deux Great Depression, performing titillating bits of Ruth St. Denis-style Oriental fantasy in seedy halls on the farthest outskirts of the vaudeville...

... the linguistic genius is no more or no less than operetta. Of course Nestroy’s theater, like operetta, vaudeville...

... vaudeville fare, and suggest commands, too big for the uniforms he ready English equivalents: the charlatan must wear or the clothes he can afford to magician with phony accent, the artsy buy, moving through social situations like a soprano and lazy musicians who play bad- line graph of power...

..., and continues to The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. direct plays, most recently in collaborations with Sam Shepard, Jean-Claude van Itallie, and Nouveau Vaudeville. PHOTO CREDITS Gabriello H. Cody has taught acting...

..., and continues to The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. direct plays, most recently in collaborations with Sam Shepard, Jean-Claude van Itallie, and Nouveau Vaudeville. PHOTO CREDITS Gabriello H. Cody has taught acting...

... few years ago, in a cartoon by Dik Bill Irwin has re-opened his come< A ("Hagar the Horrible") Browne, hour, The Regard of Flight. at Linco a court jester complained about Center, and a New Vaudeville...

... other, similar groups scattered across the U.S., producing “the classics” as well as the musical reviews and vaudeville shows more traditionally associated with black entertainers. Nonetheless, the Federal Theater repeatedly credited itself with being the first to legitimize the performance...