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Vaudeville is known as one of the most important and well-known types of entertainment between 1875 and 1932 , in the United States . Vaudeville is another very necessary and dominate form of theater . American Vaudeville was simply entertainment consisting of dances , songs , acrobatic and magic acts, and humorous skits and sketches . ... The word Vaudeville was formed from the French , meaning , “voices of the town“. ... Vaudeville took center stage between 1875-1932 , an era where there were no televisions for household entertainment . People would travel great distances to perform Vaudeville , kind of like an on the road show .
A writer named , Tony Pastor gave the first successful Vaudeville show in New York City. ... Just about every city had its own Vaudeville houses . In Vaudeville women were paid almost 100 times more than they were paid to work in the horrifying sweatshops . Vaudeville attracted more men than women , for this reason . ... In 1871 Vaudeville moved into the theaters . The price of Vaudeville was reasonable , just like with Melodramas . ...
By the 1920’s , over 20 ,000 different Vaudeville acts had made their way into America . ... There were nine to ten acts in a Vaudeville , even sometimes twenty . ... The most famous theater for Vaudeville acts in the 1920’s was a placed called , The Palace in New York . ... All paved the way for great American Vaudeville.
In Vaudeville the theater manager himself would sometimes open the theater and would operate and run it himself . The manager in Vaudeville was truly a manager , he even made decisions on how the play would go and even the acts . ...
The famous Vaudeville acts were separated into a chain of theatres in different cities , that would network to book the same groups of performers . ... The most important and noticeable persons in a circuit were the ; Theatre Mangers , the Booking Agents , and of course the Vaudeville Acts .Vaudeville opened doors for Show Business .
Amazing ling , Vaudeville began to break racial boundaries .
Approximate Word count = 1578
Approximate Pages = 6.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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