Variety shows, music hall, cabaret books

258 books were found.

Autobiography

Autobiography

Author: Micky Flanagan
ISBN: 9780091946500
Format: Paperback
$34.95

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 >>

Britain Had Talent: A History of Variety Theatre

Britain Had Talent: A History of Variety Theatre

Author: Oliver Double
ISBN: 9780230284609
Format: Paperback
$64.99

In the first major academic work to examine British variety theatre, Double provides a detailed history of this...  Read More >>

Britain Had Talent: A History of Variety Theatre

Britain Had Talent: A History of Variety Theatre

Author: Oliver Double
ISBN: 9780230284593
Format: Hardback
$190.00

In the first major academic work to examine British variety theatre, Double provides a detailed history of this...  Read More >>

Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay

Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay

Author: Andrew L. Erdman
ISBN: 9780801449703
Format: Hardback
$72.42

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Madcap May: Mistress of Myth, Men, and Hope

Madcap May: Mistress of Myth, Men, and Hope

Author: Richard Kurin
ISBN: 9781588343260
Format: Hardback
$54.99

"May Yohe was a popular entertainer from humble American origins who married and then abandoned a wealthy English...  Read More >>

My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall

My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall

Author: John Major ,  John Major
ISBN: 9780007467679
Format: Downloadable audio file
$36.20

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

Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop

Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop...

Author: Yuval Taylor ,  Jake Austen
ISBN: 9780393070989
Format: Hardback
$71.15

An exploration and celebration of a controversial tradition that, contrary to popular opinion, is alive and active...  Read More >>

A History of the Takarazuka Revue Since 1914: Modernity, Girls' Culture, Japan Pop

A History of the Takarazuka Revue Since 1914: Modernity,...

Author: Makiko Yamanashi
ISBN: 9789004203860
Format: Hardback
$361.68

Illustrated throughout, and supported by an extensive bibliography, this book is divided into five chapters: The...  Read More >>

Women Vaudeville Stars: Eighty Biographical Profiles

Women Vaudeville Stars: Eighty Biographical Profiles...

Author: Armond Fields
ISBN: 9780786469161
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Tells the stories of 80 women who were among the top vaudeville acts in the late 19th century and early 20th century....  Read More >>

The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville

The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville

Author: Anthony Slide
ISBN: 9781617032493
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Provides a record of what was once America's pre-eminent form of popular entertainment from the late 1800s through...  Read More >>

American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee

American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times...

Author: Karen Abbott
ISBN: 9780812978513
Format: Paperback
$34.99

"In this national bestseller, the author of the acclaimed ""Sin in the Second City"" chronicles the gripping and...  Read More >>

Transposing Broadway: Jews, Assimilation, and the American Musical

Transposing Broadway: Jews, Assimilation, and the American...

Author: S. Hecht
ISBN: 9780230113275
Format: Hardback
$84.99

Over the last hundred years, musical theatre artists - from Berlin to Rodgers and Hammerstein to Sondheim - have...  Read More >>

Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club

Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club

Author: Kathy Sloane ,  Sascha Feinstein
ISBN: 9780253356918
Format: Paperback
$65.95

In this book, more than 100 black and white photographs, a collage of oral histories, and a marvelous CD of recordings...  Read More >>

Baggy Pants Comedy: Burlesque and the Oral Tradition

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

Author: A. Davis
ISBN: 9780230116795
Format: Hardback
$84.99

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

Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels

Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels

Author: Justin Vivian Bond
ISBN: 9781558617476
Format: Paperback
$44.75

A moving and hilarious coming-of-age story about love, sex, and attention deficit disorder.  Read More >>

Les Battersby and Me

Les Battersby and Me

Author: Bruce Jones ,  Berry
ISBN: 9781905080830
Format: Hardback
$43.96

"Bruce Jones is best known for his role as ""Coronation Street's"" loud-mouthed but likable rogue, Les Batterbsy....  Read More >>

Sweat, Tears and Jazz Hands: The Official History of Show Choir from Vaudeville to Glee

Sweat, Tears and Jazz Hands: The Official History of...

Author: Mike Weaver ,  Colleen Hart
ISBN: 9781557837721
Format: Paperback
$53.99

SWEAT TEARS & JAZZ HANDS: THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF SHOW CHOIR FROM VAUDEVILLE TO GLEE  Read More >>

Old Time Variety: an Illustrated History

Old Time Variety: an Illustrated History

Author: Richard Baker ,  Ronald Blythe
ISBN: 9781844681242
Format: Hardback
$57.99

* Describes in detail the birth of variety theatre * Details the most famous and established acts such as Max Miller...  Read More >>

Russian Culture and Theatrical Performance in America, 1891-1933

Russian Culture and Theatrical Performance in America,...

Author: V. Hohman
ISBN: 9780230113688
Format: Hardback
$84.99

Examining the work of impresarios, financiers, and the press as well as the artists themselves, Hohman demonstrates...  Read More >>

Old Time Variety: An Illustrated History

Old Time Variety: An Illustrated History

Author: Richard Baker
ISBN: 9781844681266
Format: Hardback
$118.14

* Describes in detail the birth of variety theatre * Details the most famous and established acts such as Max Miller...  Read More >>

Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee

Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee

Author: Noralee Frankel
ISBN: 9780199754335
Format: Paperback
$43.95

Whenever stripper Gypsy Rose Lee encountered public criticism, she spoke frankly in her own defense. Frankel's lively...  Read More >>

Music of the Kabarett: The Songs of Berlin Between the Wars

Music of the Kabarett: The Songs of Berlin Between the...

Author: Graham Vickers
ISBN: 9781849383332
Format: Hardback
$59.95

This unique book includes a detailed commentary on the rise and fall of Berlin's heady mix of jazz-age novelties,...  Read More >>

Pretty Things: The Last Generation of American Burlesque Queens

Pretty Things: The Last Generation of American Burlesque...

Author: Liz Goldwyn
ISBN: 9780062011817
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Invites us to step back into an era when the hourglass figure was in vogue and striptease was a true art form. This...  Read More >>

Mr Music Man: The Life and Times of a Music Promoter

Mr Music Man: The Life and Times of a Music Promoter...

Author: Mervyn Conn ,  Andrew Crofts
ISBN: 9781907183188
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Mervyn Conn is one of Britain's most successful and colourful music impresarios of the last century. Show business...  Read More >>

All by My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed and ME

All by My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed and ME

Author: Jeff Dunham
ISBN: 9780525951414
Format: Hardback
$68.51

"Dunham is the straight man to some of the funniest partners in show business. ""All by My Selves"" is the story...  Read More >>

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