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The Standard Theatre, now known as the Folly Theater and also known as the Century Theater and Shubert's Missouri, is a former vaudeville hall in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Built in 1900, it was designed by Kansas City architect Louis S. Curtiss. The theater was associated with the adjoining Edward Hotel (known later as the Hotel Missouri ...
Burlesque on Ben-Hur, c. 1900. A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects. [1]
In 1931, many legitimate theaters in New York closed. Billy saw an opportunity to bring the Minsky brand to Broadway, amid the respectable shows, and leased the Republic Theater on 42nd Street and staged their first show on February 12. The Republic became Minsky's flagship theater and the capital of burlesque in the United States.
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Baggy Pants Comedy: Burlesque and the Oral Tradition. Palgrave Macmillan US. ISBN 978-1-137-37872-9. DiNardo, Kelly. "Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystique"; Archive of articles, video, pictures and interviews about neo-burlesque. [ISBN missing] Kenrick, John. A History of The Musical Burlesque; Sanders, Andrew (1994).
The Folly Theater is a historic theater in Kansas City, Missouri. It originally opened as the Standard Theater on 23 September 1900 and featured on the burlesque and vaudeville circuit. Business started declining in 1928 and the theater was closed between 1932 and 1941. The theater began showing adult movies in 1969 but continued to physically ...
Kansas City: Folly. Century • Folly Burlesque • Shubert's Missouri • Standard: Located at 300 W. 12th Street. [135] [136] Following a renovation in the 1980s, it remains in use today. Was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Missouri: Kansas City: Strand: Located at 3544 Troost Avenue. Oldest still-operating theater ...
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