variety entertainments

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• Variety show — A variety show or variety entertainment is an entertainment made up of a variety of acts, especially musical performances and comedy skits, and normally introduced by a compère or host. The variety format made its way from Victorian era stage to… …   Wikipedia

• Landed Entertainments — Infobox Company company name = Landed Entertainments company type = Private foundation = 1999 location = Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada flagicon|Canada industry = Entertainment products = Motion Pictures, Music Videos, Television, Documentaries… …   Wikipedia

• music hall and variety — ▪ entertainment  popular entertainment that features successive acts starring singers, comedians, dancers, and actors and sometimes jugglers, acrobats, and magicians. Derived from the taproom concerts given in city taverns in England during the… …   Universalium

• Royal Aquarium — Infobox Theatre name = Royal Aquarium and Aquarium Theatre image size = 300px caption = The Royal Aquarium, c. 1876 address = city = Westminster, London country = designation = demolished latitude = 51.5 longitude = 0.13 architect = Alfred… …   Wikipedia

• Charles Dibdin — Charles Dibdin, 1799 Charles Dibdin (4 March 1745? – 25 July 1814) was a British musician, dramatist, novelist, actor and songwriter. The son of a parish clerk, he was born in Southampton on or before 4 March 1745,[1] and was the youngest of a… …   Wikipedia

• Abbey Theatre — This article is about the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. For Abbey s Theatre on Broadway, see Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway). Abbey Theatre Front facade Address 26 Lower Abbey Street …   Wikipedia

• Foy, Eddie — (1856 1928)    A popular Irish American entertainer, Eddie Foy was mostly associated with lightweight musicals and vaudeville. His career began inauspiciously in variety entertainments in 1869, after which he toured frontier towns as a minstrel.… …   The Historical Dictionary of the American Theater

• Bowery Theatre — American Theatre redirects here. For the magazine, see American Theatre (magazine). Cigarette trading card featuring the Bowery Theatre, New York City The Bowery Theatre was a playhouse in the Bowery neighborhood of New York City. Although it was …   Wikipedia

• Lily Elsie — (8 April 1886 16 December 1962) was a popular English actress and singer during the Edwardian era, best known for her starring role in the hit London premiere of Franz Lehár s operetta The Merry Widow . Beginning as a child star in the 1890s,… …   Wikipedia

• Comédie en vaudeville — The Comédie en vaudeville was a theatrical entertainment which began in Paris towards the end of the 17th century, in which comedy was enlivened though lyrics using the melody of popular vaudeville songs. Evolution The annual fairs of Paris at St …   Wikipedia

• Hammerstein, Oscar I — (1847 1919)    Born in Berlin, Oscar Hammerstein I ran away from his Prussian home in 1863 and worked in a cigar factory on his arrival in the United States, because he could not find employment as a musician. An enterprising young man,… …   The Historical Dictionary of the American Theater