Vaudeville
noun
1.
theatrical entertainment consisting of a number of individual performances, acts, or mixed numbers, as by comedians, singers, dancers, acrobats, and magicians.
Compare variety (def 9).
2.
a theatrical piece of light or amusing character, interspersed with songs and dances.
3.
a satirical cabaret song.
noun
1.
(mainly US & Canadian) variety entertainment consisting of short acts such as acrobatic turns, song-and-dance routines, animal acts, etc, popular esp in the early 20th century Brit name music hall
2.
a light or comic theatrical piece interspersed with songs and dances
vaudeville [(vawd-vuhl, vaw-duh-vil)]
Light theatrical entertainment, popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, consisting of a succession of short acts. A vaudeville show usually included comedians, singers, dancers, jugglers, trained animals, magicians, and the like.
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