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variety show

A show consisting of successive unrelated acts, such as songs, dances, and comedy skits.

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Noun

variety show - a show consisting of a series of short unrelated performances

variety

show - a social event involving a public performance or entertainment; "they wanted to see some of the shows on Broadway"

revue, review - a variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians

vaudeville, music hall - a variety show with songs and comic acts etc.

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variety show

n → spettacolo di varietà

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Status: A pilot was shot and screened by network brass, but the variety show concept was scrapped.

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Duncan was such a hit on the ITV variety show Saturday Royal that his one planned appearance had to be extended to the rest of the series.

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Many of us also recall a smooth warrior and dapper crooner making musical and racial history as host of his own variety show: Nat King Cole.

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HARRISBURG -- The Harrisburg High School band and color guard's eighth annual variety show Friday night was a hit, according to band director Hannah Drake.

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'Mimi Shop' is JTBC4's beauty variety show headlined by 2NE1's Sandara Park, H.O.T's Tony Ahn, actress Shin So-Yul, model Kim Jin-kyung, and rapper Cheetah.

Filipino influencer and a lucky fan will appear on South Korean beauty show 'Mimi Shop'

The Greatest Variety Show was packed with a host of entertainment which brought audiences to their feet at the college's Arts Academy theatre every night and included moving tributes to a former fellow performing arts student.

Variety extravaganza

By Gordon The 1950s music supremos will be using their musical prowess to have the audiences jiving in the aisles as they are set to headline a fabulous array of local and national talent, in what is to be the third annual family variety show.

Talent put to good use; Band a the the Britain's armed By Gordon Barr THEATRE NEWS

I am in Cromer, Norfolk, watching the only surviving end-of-the pier variety show in Europe - and it's nostalgic heaven.

Trend of the pier show; How staycations and TV talent shows are reviving a great British seaside tradition

Roger, with comedy ventriloquist Ward Allen by his side, is one of the acts lined up for a return of the seaside variety show genre to the town.

There will be no paws in the fun over the summer!

Young performers across Liverpool are being given a chance to take to the Empire Theatre stage as part of the 25th anniversary of the "Michelle and Friends" variety show.

Michelle's a woman in a million (or two); Chance for performers to audition

The variety show "HitRECord on TV" has dropped its first trailer on Friday, and will premiere in January.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Launches Trailer For New Variety Show 'HitRECord on TV' [VIDEOS]

FIREFIGHTERS have planned a sizzling line-up for this year's Flaming Charity Variety Show.