Happy National Vaudeville Day!

Today is the birthday of Tony Pastor, Father of Vaudeville, which I am henceforth and unilaterally declaring to be National Vaudeville Day. I hope you will join me in observing it going forward! Perhaps at some point, we will pursue some sort of declaration or official status, but ’til then we do it informally and in a very small way, with a few links to orient you to Travalanche as a vaudeville resource. Hop on the train! Take the tour!

What Was Vaudeville?

A Handy Timeline of Vaudeville History

The 10 Most Influential Vaudevillians of All Time

The 10 Best Vaudeville Films

The Women of Vaudeville

Black Vaudeville

Tales of Vaudeville Suicide, Despair and Murder

The Stars of Vaudeville Series, begun in 2009, which contains over 1,800 biographies of vaudeville veterans, the most expansive such resource on earth

The Vaudeville Section of Travalanche, which contains over 2,400 vaudeville related posts

The Vaudeville Of…(essays relating non-vaudeville artists to vaudeville)

The various variety arts defined (i.e. vaudeville, burlesque, circus etc)

British Music Hall section

Burlesque section

Circus section

Dime Museum and Sideshow section

My show, the American Vaudeville Theatre, which started in the ’90s.

My 2005 book No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous