variety show

Examples of variety show in the following topics:

• Television

  • Comedy and variety shows were popular.
  • Dinah Shore, Perry Como, Eddie Fisher, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Lawrence Welk as well as other stars had popular weekly musical variety shows.
  • The Ed Sullivan Show showcased many famous acts during the decade.
  • Children's programs included the 19-season, Emmy-winning CBS dramatic series Lassie (1954–1973), sci-fi series Adventures of Superman (1952), variety show The Mickey Mouse Club (1955), anthology series Disneyland (1955), and live-action fairy tale anthology series Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958).
  • The Tonight Show debuted in 1954 with Steve Allen as host.

• Saloon Culture

  • The concert saloon was an American copy of the English music hall, and the forerunner of the variety and vaudeville theater.
  • The concert saloon, an American copy of the English music hall, was the forerunner of the variety and vaudeville theater.
  • It involved a mixture of contemporary songs, comedy, specialty acts and variety entertainment, much like the American vaudeville entertainment that surfaced in ensuing years.
  • As modern day variety shows became more and more popular, Music hall entertainment was deemed unfashionable.

• Cheap Amusements

  • American burlesque is a genre of variety show.
  • The genre traditionally encompassed a variety of acts.
  • The shows had slowly changed from ensemble ribald variety performances, to simple performances focusing mostly on the striptease.
  • Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment popular in the United States and Canada from the 1830s until the early 1930s.
  • At its height, vaudeville played to various economic classes and an in a variety of venues.

• Technological Advancement

  • Research on plant breeding produced varieties of grain crops that could produce high yields with heavy fertilizer input.
  • Musical programs, comedy and variety shows, and westerns quickly became a staple of 1950s TV entertainment.
  • Popular quiz and panel shows resulted in quiz show scandals that rocked the nation after it was revealed that contestants were secretly given assistance by the producers to arrange the outcome of a supposedly fair competition.
  • The Tonight Show debuted in 1954 with Steve Allen as host.
  • In 1953 CBS anchor Walter Cronkite was the host of an historical news show entitled You Are There.

• Social Classes in the Colonies

  • Early America was unique due to the wide variety of social classes who participated in its political systems.
  • This chart shows trends in long-term economic growth during the colonial period and post-colonial periods.

• Vaudeville

  • Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment popular in the United States and Canada from the 1830s until the early 1930s.
  • Vaudeville had many influences, including the concert saloon, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque.
  • Called "the heart of American show business," vaudeville was one of the most popular types of entertainment in North America for several decades.
  • In the early 1880s, impresario Tony Pastor, a circus ringmaster turned theatre manager, capitalized on middle class sensibilities and spending power when he began to feature "polite" variety programs in several of his New York City theatres .
  • He incorporated them in his shows as early as 1902.

• Changing Roles for Women

  • Before the war was over, 84 thousand WAVES filled shore billets in a large variety of jobs in communications, intelligence, supply, medicine, and administration.
  • Marine women served stateside as clerks, cooks, mechanics, drivers, and in a variety of other positions.
  • Nineteen million American women filled out the home front labor force, not only as "Rosie the Riveters" in war factory jobs, but also in transportation, agriculture, and office work of every variety.
  • This image shows a woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, CA.

• Woodland Burial Mounds and Chiefdoms

  • The Adena lived in a variety of locations, including Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, and parts of Pennsylvania and New York.
  • The Adena were notable for their agricultural practices, pottery, artistic works, and extensive trading network, which supplied them with a variety of raw materials ranging from copper (from the Great Lakes) to shells (from the Gulf Coast).

• Changing Roles for Women

  • Women in World War II took on a variety of roles.
  • Air WACs served in a large variety of jobs, including aerial photo interpretation, air traffic control, and weather forecasting.
  • Before the war was over, 84,000 WAVES filled shore billets in a large variety of jobs in communications, intelligence, supply, medicine, and administration.
  • Marine women served stateside as clerks, cooks, mechanics, drivers, and in a variety of other positions.
  • A 1943 propaganda government film that shows how industries and factories were responding to the war demand, including hiring and training new female workers.

• Escaping Hard Times

  • Americans loved a variety of music genres in the 1930s, with Big band and Jazz music maintain ever-increasing popularity following their explosion onto the national cultural scene in the previous decade.
  • The most popular type of radio show was a "potter palm," an amateur concert and Big-band Jazz performance broadcast from New York and Chicago.
  • Singer Bing Crosby first gained recognition on radio shows in the early 1930s, while famed comedy duo Abbott and Costello made their first known radio performance on The Kate Smith Hour in 1938.
  • The show was so loved that merchandise such as Annie pins became popular items for children.
  • The show later saw a huge revival as a theater musical, appearing first on Broadway from 1977 through 1983 and appearing internationally on stage and screen ever since.