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Transatlantic Stage Stars in Vaudeville and Variety
Leigh Woods
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Description for Transatlantic Stage Stars in Vaudeville and Variety
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 318 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 1KBB; 3JJC; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
This book shows eminent actors performing under stringent conditions in vaudeville. It was a strange notion in 1900 that leading lights of the legitimate stage would ever join a bill of 'turns', with everything from song-and-dance to criminals regaling crowds with their exploits. It chronicles renowned actors showing rough fare in rough times.
This book shows eminent actors performing under stringent conditions in vaudeville. It was a strange notion in 1900 that leading lights of the legitimate stage would ever join a bill of 'turns', with everything from song-and-dance to criminals regaling crowds with their exploits. It chronicles renowned actors showing rough fare in rough times.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Number of Pages
307
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403975362
SKU
V9781403975362
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About Leigh Woods
LEIGH WOODS is Professor of Theatre and Drama and Head of Theatre Studies at the University of Michigan, USA.
Reviews for Transatlantic Stage Stars in Vaudeville and Variety
'Woods shows how international performers in American vaudeville and British music hall wrought new understandings of celebrity, gender, patriotism and empire. This lively storyilluminates an era in global culture that bears important lessons for our own time.' - Robert W. Snyder, Rutgers-Newark; Author of The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture