The Best Burlesque Sketches: As Adapted for Sugar Babies and Other Entertainments

by Ralph Allen

Book Overview

Here is the first-ever collection of classic comic sketches from the bawdy, rowdy world of our slum music halls Habitu s of Burlesque (and sons of habitu s) will revel in the boisterous stock scenes and blackouts of this uniquely American form of popular entertainment. Features a foreword by Dick Martin.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557831890
• ISBN13: 9781557831897
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Applause Books
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Lots of Fun

Peter Larkin is a real lover of old time Burlesque. He's lovingly researched the old sketches, and updated them making them more accessable for a modern audience. He's done a wonderful job, and this volume is a great resource. Between the sketches and Mr. Larkin's excellent notes the reader really gets to see what this lost form of entertainment was all about.