Sentences with phrase «vaudeville turn»

A shame, then, that for his one Oscar - nominated performance — for best supporting actor as the wary, heartfelt son of 1960s activists still on the run from the FBI in Running On Empty — he lost to Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda, the sort of dotty vaudeville turn (see also John Gielgud in Arthur) that can sometimes be the wild card in the supporting categories.

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The Warfield, the historic vaudeville theater turned music venue on Market Street in San Francisco, celebrated its 90th anniversary in 2012.

Arriving in America from his native Australia at the turn of the century, Frank S. Hagney eked out a living in vaudeville.

«The Sunshine Boys,» his 1972 play about the rocky reunion of a pair of elderly vaudeville comics, attempts to turn this playwriting vice into a virtue.

The idea of the comedy duo was born in the British music halls and American vaudeville stages at the turn of the 20th Century.

He told him his uncle Ed Alison had gone up to the preacher after the funeral was said and shook his hand, the two of them standing there holding onto their hats and leaning thirty degrees into the wind like vaudeville comics while the canvas flapped and raged about them and the funeral attendants raced over the grounds after the lawnchairs, and he'd leaned into the preacher's face and screamed at him that it was a good thing they'd held the burial that morning because the way it was making up this thing could turn off into a real blow before the day was out.

presents itself as a Vaudeville act, in which the titular frog is performing to entertain an audience: perhaps you and the child you're trading turns with...

One of Kelley's most ambitious works is his monumental theater - turned - vaudeville installation entitled Day is Done (2005).