From Traveling Show to Vaudeville: Theatrical Spectacle in America, 1830-1910 Book

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From Traveling Show to Vaudeville: Theatrical Spectacle in America, 1830-1910
Written by author Robert M. Lewis
Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, October 2007
Here Robert M. Lewis has assembled a remarkable collection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century primary sources that document America's age of theatrical spectacle. In eight parts, Lewis explores dime museums, minstrelsy, circuses, melodramas, burle

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Contents:

Introduction: From Celebration to Show BusinessTHE DIME MUSEUM

Early Museum Shows

Selling and Seeing Curiosities

Commentary

Dog Days of the Museum

MINSTRELSY

Routines: Songs, Speeches, Dialogue, and Farce

Commentary: Rise and Fall of "Slave" Creativity

Reminiscences

Musical Comedy: Harrigan's Mulligan Guard

Confessions of an African American Minstrel

THE CIRCUS

The Circus Debated

The Early Circus

Big Business

The Audience

MELODRAMA

A Plea for an American Drama

Classic Melodrama

Classic Melodrama's Audiences

The Ten-Twenty-Thirty Melodramas"LEG SHOW"

BURLESQUE EXTRAVAGANZAS

The Black Crook

A Burlesque of Burlesque

Reactions to the Controversy

The Popular-Price CircuitTHE WILD WEST SHOW

Origins

Extracts from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Programs

Exhibiting Indians

SUMMER AMUSEMENT PARKS

Journalists and the "New" Coney

Showmen and the "Amusement Business"

Popular Responses

Two Critics of Coney's BanalityVAUDEVILLE

Vaudeville Defined

The Business

Routines

Title: From Traveling Show to Vaudeville: Theatrical Spectacle in America, 1830-1910

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Item Number: 9780801887482

Publication Date: October 2007

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From Traveling Show to Vaudeville: Theatrical Spectacle in America, 1830-1910

A work filled with original-source 'reprinted' skits, reviews, advertisements, etc. along with photos.
Read for personal historical research. I found this work of immense interest and its contents helpful and inspiring - number rating relates to the book's contribution to my needs.
Overall, this work is also a good resource for the researcher and enthusiast.

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