The Historical Dictionary of the American Theater

VAUDEVILLE

Vaudeville: translation

American "vaudeville" has little to do with the original French usage of the word, but borrowed it only to give a classy aura to bills of short variety acts, thus distinguishing them from the risqué variety acts presented in concert saloons and comiques. The word was employed by a few theatre managers as early as 1840, but the quintessential American vaudeville style was established byTony Pastor, whose Fourteenth Street Theatre opened in 1881 and perfected a style of family oriented variety amusements of the highest quality. Pastor's success spurred other variety producers to elevate the quality of their work and to dispense with the more vulgar acts that offended family audiences.B.F. Keithand his associateE. F. Albeeattempted a "store-show" at the Gaiety Theatre in Boston, and it was so successful that they expanded their operations to various entertainments in several theatres before opening their first exclusively vaudeville theatre in Boston in 1894. Other producers, including F. F. Proctor,Martin Beck, Oscar Hammerstein I, followed suit. The 1910s brought widespread acceptance of vaudeville throughout middle America, and theatres were built to accommodate it.
Various vaudeville circuits were managed by different organizations, including the Orpheum Circuit in the western United States and the Keith-Albee Circuit in the East. Beck built New York's fabled Palace Theatre, which became the pinnacle of achievement for entertainers. The circuits led vaudeville performers to a life of continual touring. Many performers who had their first successes in vaudeville, including George M. Cohan,Al Jolson, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Bob Hope, and Bert Williams, moved intolegitimatetheatre or musicals, while others fell from vaudeville intoburlesque. Actors from the legitimate stage, likeLillie Langtry, Ethel Barrymore, and Alla Nazimova, performed short plays on vaudeville bills between Broadway stints. Among popular entertainments, vaudeville dominated between 1890 and 1930, after which the combination of sound motion pictures and the economic pressures of the Great Depression essentially killed it.

  1. vaudeville—vaudeville translation noun Vaudevillestrong is used before these nouns performer...Collocations dictionary
  2. vaudeville—Vaudeville bersetzung. Olivier Basselin ein Walker in der Normandie im Anfange des . Jahrh pflegte launige Lieder zu dichten und sie whrend er sein Tuch in die Rahmen spa...Damen Conversations Lexikon
  3. vaudeville—vaudeville bersetzungvodvil m THEAT Possenspiel mit Gesang nu Vaudeville n vaudeville [vodvil] Substantif masculin Vaudeville neutreem...Dictionnaire Francais-Allemand
  4. vaudeville—vaudeville translationSynonyms and related wordsBroadway Grand Guignol Passion play Tom show antimasque audience success ballet bomb broadcast drama burlesque burlesque s...Moby Thesaurus
  5. vaudeville—[vdvl]водевильварьете эстрадное представление...Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь
  6. vaudeville—водевиль amer. варьете эстрадное представление...Англо-русский дополнительный словарь
  7. vaudeville—n варьете водевиль эстрадное представление...Англо-русский словарь Лингвистика-98
  8. vaudeville—vaudeville [vdvl] nu обыкн.u амер.u варьете эстрадное представление водевиль...Англо-русский словарь Мюллера
  9. vaudeville—сущ. водевиль Syn musical comedy comic sketch амер. варьете эстрадное представление...Англо-русский словарь общей лексики
  10. vaudeville—n. водевиль варьете эстрадное представление...Англо-русский словарь редакция bed
  11. vaudeville—n водевль амер. варте естрадна вистава...Англо-украинский словарь
  12. vaudeville—водевль...Англо-український словник
  13. vaudeville—n водевль амер. варте естрадна вистава to be in бути артистом естради застльна псня комчна злободенна псня....Англо-український словник Балла М.І.
  14. vaudeville—m фр. водевиль Итальянорусский словарь....Большой итальяно-русский и русско-итальянский словарь
  15. vaudeville—фр. n s s и австр. em...Большой немецко-русский и русско-немецкий словарь
  16. vaudeville—m водевиль уст. сатирическая песенка...Большой французско-русский и русско-французский словарь
  17. vaudeville—водевильный...Венгерско-русский словарь
  18. vaudeville—[\vaudevillet \vaudevillej \vaudevilleok] sznh. trt.u водевиль h....Венгерско-русский словарь
  19. vaudeville—водевиль...Голландско-русский словарь
  20. vaudeville—Водевиль...Нидерландско-русский словарь
  21. vaudeville—[vdvlvdvl] n. водевиль. амер. варьете эстрадное представлениеto be in vaudeville быть артистом эстрады...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
  22. vaudeville—vaudeville [vdvlvdvl] ni . водевиль . амер. iварьете эстрадное представление to be in быть артистом эстрады...Новый большой англо-русский словарь II
  23. vaudeville—vdvlvdvl n . водевиль . амер. emварьете эстрадное представление to be in быть артистом эстрады...Новый большой англо-русский словарь под общим руководством акад. Ю.Д. Апресяна
  24. vaudeville—il водевиль уст. сатирическая песенка...Новый французско-русский словарь
  25. vaudeville—n r...Норвежско-русский словарь