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Welcome to the American Vaudeville Museum |
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To proceed to our main features which includes: Over 150 vaudeville performer profiles Access and ordering information for back issues of Vaudeville Times & other merchandise Presentations available from AVM Original sketches of comics and singers by Frank Cullen AVM Book Listings. Over 50 capsule reviews and a listing of over 100 biographies to help you start your vaudeville library. How to join the American Vaudeville Museum Links to Other Organizations
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Lots of news from the AVM this Fall. Much of the AVM vaudevilliana is now ensconced and available to visitors to the Special Collections at the University of Arizona at Tucson, while the AVM branches into some exciting projects such as producing concerts and a New Vaudeville Revue, conducting seminars, curating comedy film fests and writing and publishing a series of historically accurate whodunits based in Boston during the vaudeville era. |
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To view AVM’s current features: Special offer of Vaudeville Old & New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America Vaudeville, Old & New: an Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America, our large format, two-volume history of vaudeville from the early 19th century to the start of the 21st, was published by Routledge Press in 2007. It continues to sell to individuals as well as research and university libraries from Pacific Asia to the Near East, Europe and North America, and the publisher has less than 100 copies remaining. You can still purchase Vaudeville, Old & New directly from AVM at a discount.
Murder at the Tremont Theatre: the First Porridge Sisters Mystery, written by AVM co-founders Frank Cullen and Donald McNeilly, introduces sisters Florrie and Lavinia, proprietors of Portridge Arms, a ‘boarding house for theatricals.’ The sisters are drawn into a larger conspiracy when, in 1908, vaudeville singer Rosetta Rice is called out of retirement and then stabbed to death in Boston’s Tremont Theatre. Available from Amazon after Labor Day 2010. Or, directly from AVM by following the link above. Meanwhile we are writing Murder at the Old Howard: the second Porridge Sisters Mystery (set in 1912) to be published early in 2011.
Golden Age of Comedy Films at the Guild Cinema The Golden Age of Comedy Films at the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque is a four-part festival saluting a variety of comedy films from the silent era through the early talkies and into the post WWII era. Part one in June 2010 was titled The British Are Coming and featured Whiskey Galore, Happiest Days of Your Life, I’m All Right, Jack and The Man in the White Suit. Margaret Rutherford, Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, Stanley Holloway, Alec Guinness and the rest of The Brits Are Back over the Christmas holidays this year. But the immediate news is our 17-22 September 2010 salute to the Vaudeville Kings & Queens of Hollywood Comedy. Three double bills of classic physical and witty comedy will star Laurel & Hardy, The Four Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont, Mae West, Cary Grant, Abbott & Costello, Joan Davis, Martha Raye, Olsen & Johnson, Shemp Howard. In February we shall salute the Great Clowns of the Silent Screen: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon and Harold Lloyd. Frank Cullen will be on hand throughout each film series to introduce the films and engage the audiences in discussion. |
