The Collaborative International Dictionary
Variety show \Variety show\ A stage entertainment, live or televised, of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. When performed live in a theater, it was often called a vaudeville show, but when television became a dominant form of entertainment live vaudeville performances almost completely ceased.
Usage examples of "vaudeville show".
He was, indeed, better informed on the theory than most of the professors who defended it, and [682] when he poured his scorn on Darwin and his atheistic humanism, he was more amusing than the average vaudeville show.
The exercise-yard door opened and Delacroix came in, escorted by Brutal, who was carrying the cigar box with the colored spool in it, the way the magician's assistant in a vaudeville show might carry the boss's props offstage at the end of the act.
He didn't expect her to invite him in, and he hadn't taken her to a paid-for supper and vaudeville show.
Her salary just about paid her board, with a dollar or two left over for headache tablets and a vaudeville show now and then.
I remember coming downstairs that night--I was going out to a vaudeville show--and hearing voices in your room.