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He arrived in the States, the Vaudeville, music show light and dance songs from France of 700 in the new world is something like the European Varietè. In principle, this show is composed of various numbers of Interest: acrobats, musicians (often family orchestras), comedians, jugglers, magicians, singers and dancers.
In the mix of cultures every American artist uses the originality of its cultural connotations and therefore expression. In form the show is nourished by the tradition of English music-hall but in essence it becomes a cauldron of dancing, numbers, formulas of short activities are inspired by the traditions of each country of origin of the artists. It is becoming commonplace in African dances accompanied by new tunes "swingheggianti" or stunts mixed with tango operetta songs in the syncopated rhythms ... In the two decades between 1850-1870 this show, cousin of the variety, knows a wide audience and tremendous growth. Was originally intended for a male audience for erotic and provocative content of the shows but soon the tone of the Vaudeville rises and reaches the highest levels of quality. He knows the luxury (as in the Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway) and attracts the attention of the film which reproduces copies, it includes original parts in fictional stories that are just excuses to justify its reproduction.
thanks to the lighting of actors and opera entrepreneurs such as Tony Pastor who renewed the genre by presenting a variety show in 1881 at the Fourteenth Street Theater in New York City Vaudeville is designed as a show suitable for all audiences.
Soon all U.S. cities, as dazzling fashion, we equip small theaters (equivalent of our cafe-chantant) set up a circuit for the real show "light." Generations of artists struggling for form and enter the Vaudeville circuit that were at the Palace Theater in New York; soubrette had become the dream of every girl, able to replicate at the Palace became the dream of all the soubrette.
The Golden Age, the "Golden Age", it has since 1905 until the birth of talking pictures and the boom of radio, and the fall of the stock market on Wall Street. In that time, the Vaudeville representation is the form of public entertainment more widespread. The artists traveled from town to another, performing for a week in the theater of each center. Within the city
vaudeville was really the only popular entertainment in which one finds throughout the city, nationally was one of the few things that unites Americans.
In general there is a peak of popularity in 1928, when the circuit of "little theaters"'incredibile had the figure of two million viewers per day.
This appalling figure of spectators, who has introduce the flavor of the era of large numbers of today's media, although referring to a public split, means that this phenomenon will grow around an enormous commercial interest. The circuit was, in fact, quickly monopolized by skilled entrepreneurs who set up a large business, perhaps the first show-business, the sale of shows, artists, orchestras and opera whole. The artistic fervor
supports the creation of new music (swing) and dance in which young people of color eccelgono allowing them to find success in show business and in the "ballroom" creating the conditions for integration in the States that unfortunately still a lot of tarry before arriving in social life.
Among the stars vaudeville include: singers Nora Bayes and Eva Tanguay, comedians Eddie Cantor, WC Fields and the Marx Brothers, the duo Joseph Weber and Lew Fields, the Keaton. The quality of performances was very high: among others, were cast as cabaret stars the French singer Yvette Guilbert and the actress Sarah Bernhardt.
The advent of radio, film and television in America, just as in Europe, led to a rapid decline of its kind since the thirties of the twentieth century.
("... Its decline (vaudeville), when all the theaters (including the giant" Radio City Music Hall in New York, built for vaudeville in 1932) were transformed into a cinema, American society took to something distinctive. "Piero Scaruffi)
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