vaudeville
vod vil
- n a variety show with songs and comic acts etc.
- If vaudeville is all but extinct, it has, at least, a reservation in Britain, a sort of sanctuary for the vanishing boffolo, where variety acts by the dozen still command high .
- Before the advent of sound movies, dance for most Americans meant tap dancers "laying down iron" in vaudeville.
- The remnants that live on in TV variety showsanimal acts, jugglers, monologu-istsare dogged reminders that vaudeville is as dead as the day before yesterday.