Variety shows, music hall, cabaret books

258 books were found.

The Five Sedgwicks: Pioneer Entertainers of Vaudeville, Film and Television

The Five Sedgwicks: Pioneer Entertainers of Vaudeville,...

Author: Michael Zmuda
ISBN: 9780786496686
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Individually and together, the Five Sedgwicks are among the unsung heroes of the early history of filmmaking in...  Read More >>

New York Burlesque: Photographs by Roy Kemp

New York Burlesque: Photographs by Roy Kemp

Author: Roy Kemp
ISBN: 9780764346873
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Roy Kemp's previously unpublished burlesque portfolio presents thirty-nine dancers performing in authentic clubs...  Read More >>

Behind the Burly Q: The Story of Burlesque in America

Behind the Burly Q: The Story of Burlesque in America...

Author: Leslie Zemeckis ,  Blaze Starr
ISBN: 9781629144962
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Burlesque was one of America's most popular forms of live entertainment in the first half of the twentieth century....  Read More >>

Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen

Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory...

Author: Sherrie Tucker
ISBN: 9780822357421
Format: Hardback
$303.47

"Open from 1942 until 1945, the Hollywood Canteen was the most famous of the patriotic home front nightclubs where...  Read More >>

Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him

Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made...

Author: David Henry ,  Joe Henry
ISBN: 9781616204471
Format: Paperback
$39.99

From David and Joe Henry, a fascinating inside look at the life and career of comedian Richard Pryor.  Read More >>

Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen

Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory...

Author: Sherrie Tucker
ISBN: 9780822357575
Format: Paperback
$81.71

"Open from 1942 until 1945, the Hollywood Canteen was the most famous of the patriotic home front nightclubs where...  Read More >>

Show and Event Dates

Show and Event Dates

Author:
ISBN: 9780946509782
Format: Paperback
$102.21

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British Music Hall: An Illustrated History

British Music Hall: An Illustrated History

Author: Richard Anthony Baker
ISBN: 9781783831180
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Music Hall lies at the root of all modern popular entertainment. This book is a hugely engaging slice of social...  Read More >>

Tales of a Tiller Girl

Tales of a Tiller Girl

Author: Irene Holland
ISBN: 9780007582143
Format: Paperback
$19.99

A heart-warming nostalgia memoir from a member of the world famous dance troupe, The Tiller Girls. Based in London...  Read More >>

The Astaires: Fred & Adele

The Astaires: Fred & Adele

Author: Kathleen Riley (Independent Scholar, Independent Scholar, Pymble, Australia)
ISBN: 9780199358946
Format: Paperback
$30.95

This is the first book about the theatre career of Fred and Adele Astaire, detailing their years in vaudeville,...  Read More >>

The New Humor in the Progressive Era: Americanization and the Vaudeville Comedian

The New Humor in the Progressive Era: Americanization...

Author: R. DesRochers
ISBN: 9781137357427
Format: Hardback
$167.95

"By tracing the effects of unprecedented immigration, the advent of the new woman, and the little-known vaudeville...  Read More >>

Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture

Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery...

Author: Barry J. Faulk
ISBN: 9780821420959
Format: Paperback
$71.15

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History of Pantomimes

History of Pantomimes

Author: Maureen Hughes
ISBN: 9781844680771
Format: Paperback
$37.99

Each Christmas entire families in the UK troop off to see, what one could almost say is 'the obligatory', annual...  Read More >>

Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics

Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics

Author: Linda Mizejewski
ISBN: 9781477307601
Format: Paperback
$53.95

Focusing on star writer/performer comedians—Kathy Griffin, Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Cho, Wanda Sykes,...  Read More >>

Baggy Pants Comedy: Burlesque and the Oral Tradition

Baggy Pants Comedy: Burlesque and the Oral Tradition...

Author: A. Davis
ISBN: 9781137378729
Format: Paperback
$55.95

The first full-length study of comedy on the burlesque stage, this book takes the reader inside the burlesque houses...  Read More >>

Autobiography

Autobiography

Author: Micky Flanagan
ISBN: 9780091946494
Format: Hardback
$49.95

This time last year it might have been a case of Micky who? But in 2011 Micky Flanagan came Out Out with a massive...  Read More >>

My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall

My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall

Author: John Major
ISBN: 9780007450145
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own...  Read More >>

Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class

Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American...

Author: Eric Lott (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Virginia) ,  Greil Marcus
ISBN: 9780195320558
Format: Paperback
$51.95

This new edition of Eric Lott's classic cultural history features a new foreword by Greil Marcus and afterword by...  Read More >>

Behind the Burly Q: The Story of Burlesque in America

Behind the Burly Q: The Story of Burlesque in America...

Author: Leslie Zemeckis ,  Blaze Starr
ISBN: 9781626364325
Format: Electronic book text
$65.87

Burlesque was one of America's most popular forms of live entertainment in the first half of the 20th century. Gaudy,...  Read More >>

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City...

Author: Michael McKinnie
ISBN: 9781442615977
Format: Paperback
$49.99

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Does This Book Make My Head Look Fat?

Does This Book Make My Head Look Fat?

Author: Mack Dryden
ISBN: 9781937875039
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Mack Dryden, born and educated in Mississippi, has made a living making people laugh since an air purifier was a...  Read More >>

My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall

My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall

Author: John Major ,  Sir John Major
ISBN: 9780007511198
Format: Audio
$35.00

Former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the...  Read More >>

Gigs: Jazz and the Cabaret Laws in New York City

Gigs: Jazz and the Cabaret Laws in New York City

Author: Paul Chevigny
ISBN: 9780415648004
Format: Paperback
$90.99

This book provides a much-needed study of the social, political, cultural and legal conditions surrounding a change...  Read More >>

Ragged but Right: "Black Traveling Shows, """"Coon Songs,"""" and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz"

Ragged but Right: "Black Traveling Shows, """"Coon Songs,""""...

Author: Lynn Abbott ,  Doug Seroff
ISBN: 9781617036453
Format: Paperback
$132.00

"A study of how ragtime comedies, bands, and minstrel shows brought blues to the masses. It traces the mass popularity...  Read More >>

Chaplin's Music Hall: The Chaplins and their Circle in the Limelight

Chaplin's Music Hall: The Chaplins and their Circle...

Author: Barry Anthony ,  Michael Chaplin
ISBN: 9781780763149
Format: Hardback
$90.00

Charlie Chaplin grew up in and around the music hall. His parents, aunt and their friends all earned their precarious...  Read More >>

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