This witty and romantic ballet is made for lovers of big dancing and vaudeville.
"Carl uses his size to his advantage by winning people over with vaudeville-style jokes, " he says.
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The films, shown in vaudeville theaters, used toy ships in bathtubs and cigar smoke for special-effect re-creations.
With its mix of vaudeville slapstick and Kafka-like anxiety, the novel is unlike anything that came before.
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They later performed in New York with Jack Belasco's orchestra and toured on the Vaudeville circuit with Ted Mack.
Close by is Vaudeville Mews, a performance space for indie rock shows.
By the way, hit the fold button when the stroller's in the collapsed position and it pops right back up like a Vaudeville performer.
Naomi Watts is the blonde this time a starving, eager-to-perform vaudeville actress.
Arum grew up in Brooklyn, on Montgomery Street in Crown Heights, the son of an accountant who had clients like the vaudeville-turned-Broadway act Olsen and Johnson.
Sir Peter Hall apologises to Downton Abbey actress Laura Carmichael after he "unintentionally disrupted" her West End debut in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at the Vaudeville Theatre.
" As for the title track, it was first recorded in 1928 by vaudeville clarinetist Ted Lewis with lyrics she calls "a feminine statement, in a weird way.
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This picture tells the story of the strange relationship part romance, part tutorial, part vaudeville act between a pair of suburban losers, Matthew (Martin Donovan) and Maria (Adrienne Shelly).
"The Wizard of Oz" was a sensation on Broadway as a musical extravaganza in 1903, to Baum's delight, even though the vaudeville-style show bore little resemblance to his book.
It's an unexpected outcome, but prurient and grotesque, perfect for vaudeville and above all for the burlesque that is the password that Berlusconi himself has chosen for his own destiny.
During one exchange between himself, the judge and a prosecutor, Mr. Naftalis muttered about an "Olsen and Johnson routine, " alluding to rowdy comedians famous from the vaudeville era until the 1950s.
The son of a vaudeville performer, he pioneered "eatertainment": showcasing knife-juggling chefs and opening new restaurants with a flourish of Japanese drummers, priests and a barrel of sake broken for good luck.
His success was accompanied, and made possible, by a fiercely competitive spirit, combined with a penny-pinching nature a remnant of his struggle just to survive as a child and in vaudeville.
We tried every distraction we could think of water, cookies, DVD player, fart noises, crossed eyes each giving us just a minute or two of respite before we had to conjure the next bit of vaudeville.
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Some of the silent actors were theatre- or vaudeville-trained, some were just good-looking people who were drawn to Hollywood, and did what they were told to do or imagined that they needed to do.
That album generated three Top 20 hits and helped Hornsby win the Best New Artist Grammy, and it laid the groundwork for a wildly diverse career encompassing jazz, pop, classical, bluegrass, folk, rock and Vaudeville.
Add to this mix some irony, audience participation and a skiffle band called "The Craze" that pops up when the scenes change, and "One Man" spirals out of neat categories into what might be considered vaudeville.
The Andrews Sisters began singing on Minnesota radio stations in the 1920s, but after several years on the Vaudeville circuit they began a recording career that made them one of the most successful female groups ever.
If you still feel like driving, another half hour and you will hit Uniontown, where the State Theatre Center for the Arts (www.statetheatre.info), a 1922 movie and vaudeville theatre designed by architect Thomas W Lamb, puts on concerts, musicals and classic films.
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Instead of a standard biopic that might explain how a 1930's vaudeville act called the Three Stooges -- brothers Moe and Curly Howard and their friend Larry Fine -- made their Hollywood mark with nearly 200 short films that featured the boys slapping, poking and punching each other senseless, the Farrellys decided to hit the 2012 multiplex with a trio of Stooges shorts set in the present.
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