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)
A vedette is the main female artist of a show derived from cabaret and its subcategories of revue, vaudeville, music hall or burlesque. The purpose of the vedette is to entertain and captivate the pub