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The Folies Bergère in New York City in 1911

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

James S. Moy
James S. Moy
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Assistant Professor of Theatre & Drama, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Extract

Nineteenth century American theatre managers generally sought to attract mass audiences. Toward this end they usually featured variety, novelty, and the spectacular in attempts to provide a little something for everyone on each evening's program. By the end of the century many managers had begun to alter this policy, choosing instead to offer entertainments which appealed to only a particular segment of the theatre-going public. Accordingly, the late nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century brought the development of many distinct strains of theatrical entertainment like vaudeville, the circus, the Little Theatre movement, and the beginnings of the night-club industry.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , Summer 1983 , pp. 146 - 156
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1983

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Notes

1. Erenberg, Lewis A., Steppin' Out: New York Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture 1890–1930 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981)Google Scholar is the best survey available on the development of this industry.

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54. For a treatment of an earlier but less extravagant cabaret style entertainment see my ‘Proctor's Pleasure Palace and Garden of Palms, 1895–1898,’ Nineteenth Century Theatre Research 8 (Spring 1980), 17–27.Google Scholar