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Vaudevillian meaning
Someone who performs in vaudeville.
Synonyms of Vaudevillian
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Based on the Broadway musical from the 1970s, stars Renée Zellweger as housewife Roxie Hart and Catherine Zeta-Jones as vaudevillian Velma Kelly.
Phantom Circus brings back the art of circus with a vaudevillian flair and a touch of burlesque, with help from a professional cast of saucy jugglers, belly dancers, aerial dancers, contortionists, stilt-walkers and acrobats.
Squinting, his lips curled, Trump loosened a vaudevillian’s fury.
What’s delightful is how all this tricksiness is embedded in the cosily familiar conventions of vaudevillian farce.
A vaudeville performer is often referred to as a "vaudevillian".
Her father was an electrician at MGM Studios, and her mother was a former vaudevillian of the Denishawn dance troupe, as well as a dance teacher.
Marx reputedly claimed that he was "hopelessly average" as a vaudevillian, but this was typically Marx, wisecracking in his true form.
Though not credited often, vaudevillian techniques can commonly be witnessed on television and in movies.