vaudeville
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Bob Baker’s Highland Park home was originally built as the York Theater in 1925, hosting movies and vaudeville performances during that era.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
He was playing, as they say in vaudeville, to a different "house".
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026
Ground-floor tickets generally cost around a dollar, while cheap seats in the upper balconies were usually just a dime, making vaudeville accessible to rich and poor alike.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026
These would influence the American musical, but also shaping the genre were homegrown entertainments—the minstrel show, the revues of Florenz Ziegfeld, vaudeville and burlesque.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
Like the guy in the old vaudeville skit, the guy in the folding cot that won’t stay folded, Jerome flipped straight up, wide awake.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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