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What are shows originally in Europe and by 1800s test become a popular performer than do take in the America and was basically variety shows between several life and the singers, dancers, magicians and acrobats? This is a part of a talk in a theater history class. I listened to it many times but I heard something like "vastview" but "vastview" is meaningless

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1. I'm sorry but that question MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE AT ALL... I have read it 10 times and I STILL can't figure out the question. The EARLIEST modern musical was about 1867.. there WERE NONE prior to that.
2. they have true talent in europe...american is all about looks
3. Possibly you mean "vaudeville" -- an American form of theater descended from European variety theater http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaudeville#Beginnings
4. I'll agree that this question is meaningless nonsense. But I'll also say, nothing like modern musical comedy showed up until George M. Cohan's shows in the first few years of the 1900s. Those shows people cite in the 1800s were nothing like the art form we know today. For better musical theatre history than you've apparently gotten before, check out "Strike Up the Band: A New History of Musical Theatre."