Musical Theatre/Broadway

  • 1500

    The African dance

    The movement in African dancing are meant to accompaniment the voice and drums together in African dancing. While the African movement itself depend on the people and gender since it more of a segregated dance by gender roles.
  • Period: 1500 to

    The Minstrelsy Show

    The Minstrelsy Show was an American entertainment show that consisted of the following comic skits, dancing and music. Some of the Characteristics of a Minstrelsy Show is the fact that white dancers wore black make up to make black people be view in a bad light by the pessimistic stereotypes that while people had for black people during that time period.
  • Period: to

    Tony Pastor

    Tony Pastor was an impresario, variety performer and theatre owner who became one of the founder forces behind American vaudeville in the mid to late nineteenth century. He was also sometimes referred to as the Dean of Vaudeville shows.
  • Period: to

    The Vaudeville show

    A Vaudeville show is a genre of variety
    entertainment that was prevalent in the U.S. and Canada
    from the early 1880s to the early 1930s. Also, The Vaudeville The shows usually consisted of about 12 to 20 unrelated acts put together into a Vaudeville show. The following acts included musicians, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, female and male impersonators, acrobats, one-act plays or a scene from a play, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels and short films.