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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 .
Advertisement for a US burlesque troupe, 1898. American burlesque shows were originally an offshoot of Victorian burlesque. The English genre had been successfully staged in New York from the 1840s, and it was popularised by a visiting British burlesque troupe, Lydia Thompson and the "British Blondes", beginning in 1868. [32]
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"Burlesque is more than stripping," she said. "It is beautiful costumes, comics, production numbers and much more." [1] La Rose was said to have been the first strip tease dancer to be paid over $2,000 a week. [2] At the height of her fame in the 1940s and 1950s, she was reported to have commanded $2,500 a week on the national burlesque circuit ...
Vaudeville developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, and literary American burlesque. Called "the heart of American show business", Vaudeville was one of the most popular types of entertainment in North America for several decades.
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Yes, it does, according to burlesque professionals in Alberta, Canada, where the Gaming and Liquor Commission lumps them with strippers and exotic dancers, labeling all their acts "nude ...
This documentary film, directed by Leslie Zemeckis, explores the heyday of burlesque includes dozens of interviews with exotic dancers of the time, including April March, Lorraine Lee, Taffy O’Neill, Blaze Starr, Tempest Storm, Beverly Arlynne, Kitty West, Alexandra the Great '48, and many others; Mike Iannucci, burlesque performer Ann Corio's husband and producer of “This Was Burlesque ...