music hall

noun

: a vaudeville theater
also : vaudeville

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The stark beauty of Samuel Beckett’s absurdist classic, part music hall romp, part abstract painting, was awakened in a production starring two gifted comics who didn’t overplay their slapstick hands, Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024 Leigh, a doctor’s son who grew up middle-class in a working-class neighborhood in Manchester, came up with his method after a youth spent studying traditional performance, from music hall to theatre to the circus, and wanting to see real people, real lives, onstage and onscreen. Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024 After getting fired from her Rockette-y gig, a Broadway star (Britt Robertson) returns home and, finding out her parents are about to lose their music hall, trains a hunky handyman (Chad Michael Murray) and other dudes for an all-male dance revue to save the place. Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2024 The designer drew upon vintage photographs of performers at the Casino De Paris, a music hall that dates back to the 18th century. Hannah Malach, WWD, 4 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for music hall 

Word History

First Known Use

1842, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of music hall was in 1842

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“Music hall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/music%20hall. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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