For that engagement and others, they billed themselves as “Chinese dance stylists” or a “Chinese-American dance team” or even ... There was a vaudeville theater across the street.

Which is to say there’s some truth to the plot of the 1949 musical Take Me Out to the Ballgame, where Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra star as baseball players who sing and dance during the off-season.

American Vaudeville: A Personal Retrospective.”” Vaudeville is a cultural phenomenon where lighthearted song, dance and comedy took the main stage but within the wings held important social ...

It was characterized by a series of unrelated acts, including comedy sketches, song and dance ... vaudeville continued to evolve and grow in popularity, eventually becoming a staple of American ...