Binding: Paperback
Description: Taking readers inside the burlesque houses of Depression - era America Baggy Pants Comedy explores the role of comedy in a show remembered mostly for strip - tease. It examines how burlesque comics straightmen and talking women approached the craft of comedy working in a genre that relied not on scripts but on a remembered tradition of comedy bits that circulated orally. The book opens a long - neglected area of American folklore presenting transcripts of dozens of fondly - remembered routines like " Who's On First" and " Niagara Falls (Slowly I Turned) " as well as long - forgotten classics in print for the first time.
Title: Baggy Pants Comedy Burlesque And The Oral Tradition
Author(s): Davis A.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Barcode: 9781137378729
Pages: 288 Pages, Xiii, 288 P.
Publication Date: 1/8/2014
Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Category: Variety Shows, Music Hall, Cabaret