What IS the "new" vaudeville?

Find out by taking a seat at the Stevie Eller Dance Theatre to see University of Arizona dancers, muscians, choreographers and composers join forces with a troupe of nationally known vaudevillians, including Keith Nelson and Stephanie Monseu of the Bindlestiff Family Circus (BCF)/ Bendlestiff Variety Arts!

In the "New Vaudeville Revue," directed by Douglas Nielsen in collaboration with Frank Cullen and Suzanne Knosp, you'll see the art form in all its stages -- past, present and future.  High wire acts, clowns, jugglers? Yes, but also exotic choreography and award-winning film. On both stage and screen, we will bring to life the wondrous world of vaudeville!

This production is made possible by the generosity and spirited support of Frank Cullen, the donor of a major Vaudeville collection to UA. 

"Vaudeville was more than an assembly of ragtime pantaloons, topical monologists, eccentric dancers, barrel-house songbirds, magicians, tumblers and jugglers, more than a coast-to-coast network of once-guilded theatres now shambling into plaster dust...  Vaudeville was a people's culture"   --Frank Cullen, 2007.  Vaudeville, Old & New: an Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America.
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