The Nance /

In the 1930s, burlesque impresarios welcomed the hilarious comics and musical parodies of vaudeville to their decidedly lowbrow niche. A headliner called "the nance" -- usually played by a straight man -- was a stereotypically camp homosexual and master of comic double entendre. The Nance...

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Main Author:	Beane, Douglas Carter, 1959- (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author:	Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays (Brown University) Plays, 1976-2000
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Dramatists Play Service, [2016]
Subjects:	Burlesque (Theater) > Drama Gay men > Drama Stage presence > Drama Vaudeville > Drama Burlesque (Theater) Gay men Stage presence Vaudeville Drama

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