User:Andrewaskew/Books/Variety Shows

An entertaing history

 * Variety Shows Overview


 * Blackface minstrelsy
 * Blackface Minstrelsy Overview
 * Blackface Minstrelsy Overview - Blackface
 * Blackface Minstrelsy Overview - Songs
 * Blackface Minstrelsy Overview - Troupes
 * Alabama Joe
 * Bamboozled
 * The Boatman's Dance
 * Camptown Races
 * Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
 * Ching a Ring Chaw
 * Clar de Track
 * Clare de Kitchen
 * Coal Black Rose
 * Coon song
 * De Wild Goose-Nation
 * Dixie
 * Dan Emmett
 * Stephen Foster
 * Gentle Annie
 * Golliwogg
 * Gumbo Chaff
 * Lewis Hallam Jr.
 * I Ain't Got Time to Tarry
 * I'm Going Home to Dixie
 * I'm Gwine ober de Mountain
 * Interlocutor
 * Jimmy Crack Corn
 * Johnny Roach
 * Al Jolson
 * Jump Jim Crow
 * Mammy
 * Mammy archetype
 * Mary Blane
 * Miss Lucy Long
 * My Old Kentucky Home
 * Oh! Susanna
 * Oh, Dem Golden Slippers
 * Old Dan Tucker
 * Old Folks at Home
 * Ole Bull and Old Dan Tucker
 * Owl Creek Quickstep
 * Polly Wolly Doodle
 * Racism
 * Racism - United States
 * Thomas D. Rice
 * Seely Simpkins Jig
 * Sich a Getting up Stairs
 * Stereotyping
 * Stereotyping - African Americans
 * Stump speech
 * Two Black Crows
 * Turkey in the Straw
 * Tuxedo
 * Wait for the Wagon
 * Virginia Minstrels
 * Walk Along John
 * Walkaround
 * Whiteface


 * Burlesque‎
 * Burlesque Overview
 * Burlesque Overview - Neo-Burlesque
 * Abbott and Costello
 * Robert Alda
 * American burlesque
 * Josephine Baker
 * Milton Berle
 * Immodesty Blaize
 * Bubble dance
 * Can-can
 * Ann Corio
 * Jimmy Durante
 * Erotic dancing
 * Fan dance
 * Fanny Brice
 * Gown-and-glove dance
 * Jackie Gleason
 * Guerrilla burlesque
 * Hoochie coochie
 * Bob Hope
 * Margaret Hart Ferraro
 * Bert Lahr
 * Gypsy Rose Lee
 * Minsky's Burlesque
 * Kitten Natividad
 * Pasties
 * Sally Rand
 * Lili St. Cyr
 * Lydia Thompson
 * Bettie Page
 * Phil Silvers
 * Tempest Storm
 * Striptease
 * Dita Von Teese
 * Noel Toy
 * Evelyn West
 * Mae West


 * Cabaret
 * Cabaret Overview
 * American Composer Series
 * Cabaret Paradis
 * Cabaret Red Light
 * Conferencier
 * Dark cabaret
 * The Dresden Dolls
 * Valeska Gert
 * Gloomy Sunday
 * Kabarett
 * Mack the Knife
 * Gerhard Polt
 * Punk cabaret
 * Red Envelope Club
 * Spiegeltent
 * Weimar Republic
 * Zielony Balonik


 * Circus
 * Circus Overview
 * Circus Overview - Skills
 * Circus Overview - Circuses and owners
 * Acrobatics
 * Bearded lady
 * Bee bearding
 * Clown
 * Contortion
 * Equilibristics
 * Fire dancing
 * Fire eating
 * Flea circus
 * Freak show
 * Geek show
 * Hand walking
 * Human cannonball
 * Juggling
 * Lion taming
 * Sideshow
 * Stilts
 * Strongman
 * Sword swallowing
 * Tightrope walking
 * Trick riding
 * Twirling


 * Clowning
 * Clowning Overview


 * Magic
 * Magic Overview
 * Magic Overview - Glossary
 * Magic Overview - Timeline
 * Back Palm
 * Billet reading
 * Card flourish
 * Card manipulation
 * Card marking
 * Charlier Cut
 * Coin magic
 * Cold reading
 * Double lift
 * Dove pan
 * Equivocation
 * Escapology
 * Evocation
 * Exposure
 * French drop
 * Hocus Pocus
 * Indian magicians
 * Invisible thread
 * Lapping
 * Magick
 * Magician's assistant
 * Mentalism
 * Micromagic
 * Misdirection
 * Muscle reading
 * Neodymium magnet
 * Palming
 * Parlor magic
 * Patter
 * Platform magic
 * Retention of vision
 * Shut eye
 * Sleight of hand
 * Stage illusions
 * Street magic
 * Tarbell Course
 * Theatrical séance
 * Three-card Monte
 * Tinker Bell
 * Trick deck
 * Zarrow shuffle
 * Zombie ball


 * Music Hall
 * Music Hall Overview
 * Music Hall Overview - Songs
 * The Boy I Love Is Up in the Gallery
 * Burlington Bertie
 * Comic song
 * Concert party
 * Goodbye, Dolly Gray
 * I Belong to Glasgow
 * I Do Like To be Beside the Seaside
 * I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am
 * The Laughing Policeman
 * A Little Bit of Cucumber
 * The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
 * My Old Dutch
 * Nellie Dean
 * Oh! Mr Porter
 * Old Brown's Daughter
 * Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green
 * Taxi dance hall
 * Waiting at the Church
 * Your King and Country Want You


 * Vaudeville
 * Vaudeville Overview
 * Alexander's Ragtime Band
 * Black Vaudeville
 * Bodabil
 * Chalk talk
 * Double act
 * Double-talk
 * Down by the Old Mill Stream
 * Finnegan's Wake
 * Good Evening, Caroline
 * He May Be Old, But He's Got Young Ideas
 * Hello Nurse
 * How Come You Do Me Like You Do?
 * I Love You Truly
 * Illustrated songs
 * In the Boarding House
 * Jap fiddle
 * Just Awearyin' for You
 * Ladies and gentlemen
 * The List of Generals
 * Mighty Lak' a Rose
 * Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean
 * One-person show
 * Open the Door, Richard
 * The Parade of the Tin Soldiers
 * A Perfect Day
 * Slowly I Turned
 * Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay
 * Tab show
 * Tin Pan Alley
 * Tom Shows
 * Where Did You Get That Hat?
 * Will it play in Peoria?


 * Ventriloquism
 * Ventriloquism Overview


 * Wild West Shows
 * Wild West Shows Overview
 * |Wild West Shows Overview - Shows
 * American Frontier
 * Amerindians
 * Buffalo Bill
 * Pawnee Bill
 * Sitting Bull
 * Adam Bogardus
 * Bullwhip
 * Cowboys
 * Geronimo
 * Gunfighter
 * Wild Bill Hickok
 * Impalement arts
 * Calamity Jane
 * Mexican Joe
 * James Lawson
 * Tom Mix
 * Annie Oakley
 * Bill Pickett
 * Will Rogers
 * Show Indians
 * Target girl
 * Trick roping
 * Westerns
 * Westerns - Books
 * Jess Willard