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  2. Burlesque - Wikipedia

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    Burlesque on Ben-Hur, c. 1900. A burlesque is a literary, ... often in cabarets and clubs, as well as theatres, and featured bawdy comedy and female striptease.

  3. American burlesque - Wikipedia

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    Advertisement for a burlesque troupe, 1898 Souvenir programme for Ruy Blas and the Blasé Roué. American burlesque is a genre of variety show derived from elements of Victorian burlesque, music hall, and minstrel shows. Burlesque became popular in the United States in the late 1860s and slowly evolved to feature ribald comedy and female nudity.

  4. Sheerluck Jones, or Why D'Gillette Him Off - Wikipedia

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    Sheerluck Jones, or Why D'Gillette Him Off is a burlesque on the popular 1899 play Sherlock Holmes. The comedy starred Clarence Blakiston as Sheerluck Jones and ran at Terry's Theatre (1901-02) for 138 performances.

  5. History of stand-up comedy - Wikipedia

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    Stand-up comedy has roots in various traditions of popular entertainment of the late 19th century, including vaudeville, the stump-speech monologues of minstrel shows, dime museums, concert saloons, freak shows, variety shows, medicine shows, American burlesque, English music halls, circus clown antics, Chautauqua, and humorist monologues like those delivered by Mark Twain in his first (1866 ...

  6. A Day in the Life of a Burlesque Dancer - AOL

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    By Veronica Dudo Performing over a dozen different routines (complete with props and costume changes), applying full makeup, styling hair, entertaining the audience and interacting with the crowd ...

  7. Striporama - Wikipedia

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    Striporama (also known as Striporama of Burlesque) is a 1953 American comedy film directed by Jerald Intrator [1] and starring a number of burlesque comedy, dance and striptease acts popular during the early 1950s including Georgia Sothern, Lili St. Cyr, Bettie Page and Jeanne Carmen.

  8. Victorian burlesque - Wikipedia

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    Burlesque theatre became popular around the beginning of the Victorian era.The word "burlesque" is derived from the Italian burla, which means "ridicule or mockery". [2] [3] According to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Victorian burlesque was "related to and in part derived from pantomime and may be considered an extension of the introductory section of pantomime with the addition ...

  9. Columbia Amusement Company - Wikipedia

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    The Columbia Amusement Company, also called the Columbia Wheel or the Eastern Burlesque Wheel, was a show business organization that produced burlesque shows in the United States between 1902 and 1927. Each year, between three and four dozen Columbia burlesque companies would travel in succession round a "wheel" of theaters, ensuring steady ...