“Meloy's balladry brings to mind vaudeville, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley, 'Sweeney Todd,' the Victorian and Edwardian eras, Kurt Weill and Nick Cave, 1960s psychedelic rock pop and roaring pub sing-alongs.”
Colin Meloy
“Come on and hear, come on and hear, Alexander's Ragtime Band.”
Irving Berlin
“Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at "hateful ragtime" no longer passes for musical culture.”
Scott Joplin
“You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.”
Danny Kaye
“Sometimes it feels like it's Vaudeville up there on the bench, ... The robe is a costume. I'm on an elevated seat. It could be looked at as staging.”
John Wesley
“All the skills of the cowboy that you used to see in the wild west shows on Vaudeville and on TV.”
Mark Allen
“If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.”
Larry Gelbart
