Performing Intermediality in The Passing Show of 1913
Performing Intermediality in The Passing Show of 1913
Like the finale of a vaudeville show, this chapter brings the themes and actors presented in preceding chapters “back on stage” through an examination of the Shubert Brother’s answer to the Ziegfeld Follies revue, The Passing Show of 1913. The show’s act 1 Finale, “The Capitol Steps,” gestures toward a number of the performances and intermedial performance strategies discussed throughout the book in order to both negotiate cultural issues and create meaning and humor. This number and the shorter version of it staged as Escalade at the London Hippodrome demonstrate the centrality of reference to American popular genres in the early years of the century, the fluidity of these genres and their performers, and just how definitive intermedial aesthetics were in American entertainment at the turn of the twentieth century.
Keywords: The Passing Show of 1914, “The Capitol Steps”, performance, intermedial aesthetics, Escalade, revue, American entertainment
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