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The Martin Beck Theater, now the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, at 302 West 45th Street in Manhattan. Martin Beck (July 31, 1868 – November 16, 1940) was a vaudeville theatre owner and manager, and theatrical booking agent, who founded the Orpheum Circuit, and built the Palace and Martin Beck Theatres in New York City's Broadway Theatre District. [1]
The Trocadero Theatre (opened as the Arch Street Opera House) is a historic theater located in Chinatown in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.It offered musical comedies, vaudeville, opera, and burlesque.
The Melodrama World Tour was the second concert tour by New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde, undertaken in support of her second studio album, Melodrama (2017). Lorde headlined several music festivals before commencing the tour, and went on to communicate frequently with stage designer Es Devlin to plan the show's design.
The Orpheum Circuit was started by the vaudeville impresario Gustav Walter, who opened the Orpheum Opera House in San Francisco in June 1887. This first Orpheum seated 3500 and quickly became one of the most popular theaters in San Francisco attracting a wide variety of people. [1] The Orpheum's tickets were scaled to draw a mixed audience.
Theatrical historian Louis Botto said that "from the 1930s on, it was a constant struggle for survival" for the Palace, which frequently flipped between film-only, vaudeville/film, and live performance formats. [155] The Palace reverted to a vaudeville-before-film policy on January 7, 1933, two months after it started showing films exclusively.
This is a partial list of vaudeville performers. Inclusion on this list indicates that the subject appeared at least once on the North American vaudeville stage during its heyday between 1881 and 1932. The source in the citation included with each entry confirms their appearance and cites information in the performance notes section.
He first appeared on the vaudeville stage in 1909 at Hammerstein's Victoria in New York City, appearing in the ring with white boxer, Kid Cutler. He went on a thirty-week vaudeville tour the following year. [422] [423] George W. Johnson: c. 1855 January 23, 1914 American Singer. Ralph Johnstone: 1886 November 17, 1910 American Bicyclist.
Legitimate theatre [a] is live performance that relies almost entirely on diegetic elements, with actors performing through speech and natural movement. [2] [3] Traditionally, performances of such theatre were termed legitimate drama, [4] [2] [3] while the abbreviation the legitimate refers to legitimate theatre or drama and legit is a noun referring both to such dramas and actors in these dramas.