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| Term | Definition | |
|---|---|---|
| Famous Operetta Shows | WuderBar(German)<br> Married Widow(1907 1st one)<br> Showboat Lyrics by hammerstein(1927) | whaaat |
| When did Operetta Start | after civil war from france | |
| Themes of Operetta | always a happy ending | |
| Key writer for operetta | Viktor Herbert | |
| What was sold at Operettas | Sheet music | |
| Who started Minstrels | Thomas D. Rice-Borrowed a Negros clothes and sang Jim Crow. | |
| Judy Garland and Micky Rooney | Best banjo playyyyaaa. Both played in Babes on broadway(Minstrel Show) | |
| Most famous minstrel showman of his time | Edwin Christy(Christie Minstrels) | |
| Why did minstrel shows start | War of 1812 cut ties from England and grabbed songs from the south | |
| What type of entertainment are minstrel shows | Crude low grade style song and dance comedy | |
| What was the first form of american stage entertainment | Minstrel Shows | |
| Where did Minstrel shows originate | US | |
| When did Minstrel shows decline | they lost creative energy by 1870 | |
| What initiated big business in performing arts | Minstel shows | |
| Ballad Opera | Type of Melodrama<br> drama combined with folk ballads of the day | |
| Famous Ballad Opera | The Beggars Opera by John Gays | |
| Where did intermissions come from | Intermettso in Melodrama | |
| Major influence of Melodrama | Romanticism | |
| Melodramas Emphasized... | Clear and suspenseful plots<br> Good vs evil<br> good man hounded by villain<br> Special Effects<br> Strict Poetic Justice was meted out | |
| Melodrama was popular due to what | industrial revolution | |
| Who was the first to use treadmills and panoramas | Melodrama | |
| Top Vaudeville segmaents | Golden Girls, Yankee doodle dandy segments | |
| Who is Tony Paster | 1865 opened Variety threater in Paterson NJ | |
| Paster removed what from Vaudvillies | Explicit materials and aimed it toward family | |
| Name for people in Vaudevilles | Vaudevillians | |
| Famous Acts in Vaudevilles | Magicians<br> Midgets<br> Monkeys<br> | |
| Famous Artists in Vaudevilles | Houdini<br> George M Cohan(The Four Cohans)<br> Eugen Sandow(MUSCLE MILK)<br> | |
| Vaudevilles-Circus | Term your fires came from vaudville | |
| Decline of Vaudeville | Declined during depression(most went to hollywood)<br> Victim of movies nightclub<br> | |
| Burlesque | Low comedy parody complemented by exhibitions of arts | |
| Types of Burlesque | Hootchie Kootchie Ads<br> Shimmy Shakers<br> Tassel Dancers<br> Strippers | |
| Most famous stripper in Burlesque | Gypsy Rose- didnt show dem titties | |
| Burlesque's two faces | Low Comedy<br> Female Anatomy(Dat ass) | |
| Father of Burlesque and what did he do | Michael Bennet Colquitt- Gave boxes of candy with nudies | |
| Famous Burlesque show | Let me entertain you | |
| Extavaganza | loosely adopted from European models with female dances and AWESOME costumes | |
| Hippodrome was... | Greatest threater ever constructed for extravaganza. 13 elephant and 110 by 200 feet bool | |
| Extravaganza show. | Jumbo-Billy Rose | |
| First Musical in USA | The Black Crook(1866) | |
| Masque? | dressed up in costume and improv | |
| Oilo | performance between shows | |
| Popular Puppet show | poor soldier | |
| Mozart created.. | new opera where serious and comedy combined |
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