Essanay specialized in Westerns featuring " Broncho Billy " Anderson, and Kalem sent Sidney Olcott off with a film crew and a troupe of actors to various places in America and abroad to make film stories in the actual places they were supposed to have happened.

Many of the current " rules " of comedic improv were first formalized in Chicago in the late 1950s and early 1960s, initially among The Compass Players troupe, which was directed by Paul Sills.

Like Henson's Muppets, the Feebles are animal-figured puppets ( though some were people in suits ) assembled together as members of a theatre troupe.

The resulting clip was a huge success, and " Koufey " and his troupe were invited to New York City to perform the song for the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards.

Mozart was a close friend of one of the singer-composers of the troupe, tenor Benedikt Schack ( the first Tamino ), and had contributed to the compositions of the troupe, which were often collaboratively written.

Before the troupe formed, Bruce McCulloch and Mark McKinney were working together doing Theatresports in Calgary, performing in a group named " The Audience ".

Settlers established a Yiddish newspaper, the Birobidzhaner Shtern ( Russian: Биробиджанер Штерн ; Yiddish:, " Star of Birobidzhan "); a theater troupe was created ; and streets being built in the new city were named after prominent Yiddish authors such as Sholom Aleichem and Y. L. Peretz.

These include the visibility and popularity of square dance performers such as Lloyd " Pappy " Shaw ‘ s traveling troupe of " teenage cowboy square dancers "; the way square dancing and the west were portrayed in western movies and early television ; and the popular clothing styles of those times, for example poodle skirts.

In March 1866, Booker and Clayton's Georgia Minstrels may have been the country's most popular troupe, and were certainly among the most critically acclaimed.

Then, he is unexpectedly backed up by a small choir of male singers, all dressed as Canadian Mounties ( several were regular Python performers, while the rest were generally members of an actual singing troupe, such as the Fred Tomlinson Singers in the TV version ).

All of the original cast ( except Harold Ramis ) were from the Toronto branch of The Second City theatre improv troupe, and many had previously worked together on The David Steinberg Show.

Various reasons were given for the band's transformation from musical theater troupe to rock band.

Pan's People were a British TV dance troupe, who are usually associated with the BBC TV music chart show Top of the Pops.

They were not the first dance troupe to appear regularly on TOTP ; they were preceded by The Go-Jos in the programme's first four years, before Pan's People replaced them in May 1968.

Two dancers ( Dee Dee and Ruth ) from the troupe were invited to dance on TOTP by choreographer Virginia Mason in 1968 for a routine to " Simon Says " by the 1910 Fruitgum Company.

Legs & Co performed every week on the show until 1981, when they were replaced by Zoo – a large troupe of dancers where individual members could be selected to perform each week, depending on the song.

The techniques that had been developed in Theatre Union now were refined, producing the distinctive form of theatre that was the hallmark of Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, as the troupe was later known.

They were an impoverished travelling troupe, but were making a name for themselves.

After joining his troupe, Theatre of Action, Littlewood and Miller were soon married.

This was after he had become frustrated at repeatedly being asked what it would be called, despite the troupe not having given the matter of a third film any consideration.

In any given troupe, the senior player could have well over one hundred lazzis at his / her disposal.

The entire troupe was given a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in 2002.

The rest of the cast consisted of the new and untried ( for instance Hildebrand Horden, who had just joined Rich's troupe, playing a rakish young lover ), the modest and lacklustre ( Jane Rogers, playing Amanda, and Mary Kent, playing Sir Novelty's mistress Flareit ), and the widely disliked ( the opportunist Colley Cibber, playing Sir Novelty Fashion ); people who had probably never been given the option of joining Betterton.

So popular were Favart and his troupe that the enemy became desirous of hearing his company and sharing his services, and permission was given to gratify them, battles and comedies thus curiously alternating with each other.

This term is a term given to a troupe of itinerant actors.

They were given a venue for their talents when Li Maoer, himself a former Peking-opera performer, founded the first female Peking-opera troupe in Shanghai.

But given their inventiveness and creativity, his control over the troupe lessened.

You Wrote It, You Watch It is a short-lived MTV sketch comedy series starring members of The State comedy troupe before they were given their own show by the network.

The exclusive held for several years, and was finally broken around 1926 when an avant-garde Yiddish theater troupe, who were clearly doing a very different type of theater from Stramer's operetta company, were given permission to tour in Transylvania.

When a role becomes available, precedence is given to the relatives of present members of the troupe.

The piece was an extravaganza in which the classical Greek gods, grown elderly, are temporarily replaced by a troupe of 19th-century actors and actresses, one of whom is the eponymous Thespis, the Greek father of the drama.

Zan Ganassa, whose troupe is first mentioned in Mantua in the late 1560s, was one of the earliest known actors believed to have performed the part.

As soon as a lazzi is initiated by one player, all of the other players must fall in, thus performing a lazzi requires every member of the troupe to know the routine as well as great teamwork.

The troupe made one movie, Brain Candy, which was released in 1996.

Thereafter the character — sometimes a peasant, but more often now an Italianate " second " zanni — appeared fairly regularly in the Italians ’ offerings, his role always taken by one Giuseppe Giaratone ( or Geratoni ), until the troupe was banished by royal decree in 1697.

The plane, carrying Rose and the dance troupe, is wrenched violently as one of its engines detaches and falls into the vortex.

Famous as Jack Oxendine, William Henry Lane became one of the few black performers to join an otherwise white minstrel troupe, and is widely considered to be the most famous forebear of tap dance.

He sometimes organized his own troupe and toured bases both in the U. S. and overseas, often small installations that the USO did not serve, like one tour of Greenland, Baffinland, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Brandeis has eleven a cappella groups, six undergraduate-run theater companies, one sketch comedy troupe, and four improv-comedy groups, as well as many other cultural and arts clubs.

American performer Harry Connick, Jr. was one of the guest judges and objected to the act, stating that he believed it was offensive to African-Americans, and gave the troupe a score of zero.

He had at one point been a member of the " UC Follies " comedy troupe in Toronto.

Leonia is home to the Players Guild of Leonia, which operates as the oldest continuing theatre troupe in the state of New Jersey, and is one of the oldest community theatre guilds in the state with continuous performances since 1919.

Women with bound feet in one village in Yunnan Province even formed an internationally known dance troupe to perform for foreign tourists, though age has since forced the group to retire.

But after one week, she quit the troupe.

By 1592 Kempe was one of Lord Strange's Men, listed in the Privy Council authorization for that troupe to play seven miles out of London.

These companies emphasized that their ethnicity made them the only true delineators of black song and dance, with one advertisement describing a troupe as " SEVEN SLAVES just from Alabama, who are EARNING THEIR FREEDOM by giving concerts under the guidance of their Northern friends.

" Promoters seized on this, one billing his troupe as " THE DARKY AS HE IS AT HOME, DARKY LIFE IN THE CORNFIELD, CANEBRAKE, BARNYARD, AND ON THE LEVEE AND FLATBOAT.

Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery had been members of the Cambridge Footlights, a student comedy troupe similar to the one portrayed in the film, during the same time.

When Conrad Gauthier's troupe was missing a folk violinist for a performance, one of Bolduc's friends arranged for her to fill in for the absent performer.

It was whilst in Paris that Jodorowsky began studying mime with Etienne Decroux and joined the troupe of one of Decroux's students, Marcel Marceau.