Cabaret
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Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, casino, hotel, restaurant, or nightclub with a stage for perform
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance, 1890
The Café des Aveugles ("Café of the Blind") in the cellars of the Palais-Royal at the beginning of the 19th century
The composer Eric Satie playing the harmonium at Le Chat Noir (1880s)
The Moulin Rouge in 1893
American burlesque
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American burlesque or burlesque is a genre of variety show derived from elements of Victorian burlesque, music hall, and minstrel shows. Burlesque became popular in the United States in the late 1860s
Cabaret
…its European origins, is often (but not always) oriented towards adult audiences and of a clearly underground nature. In the United States, striptease, burlesque, drag shows, or a solo vocalist with a pianist, as well as the venues which offer this entertainment, are often advertised as cabarets. The term…
Advertisement for a burlesque troupe, 1898
Souvenir programme for Ruy Blas and the Blasé Roué
American burlesque on Ben Hur, c. 1900
Mae West performing her burlesque dance in the film I'm No Angel