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On the Variety Show

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COMPERE
The British term for a variety-show host, the smooth-voiced figure who kept the evening moving and introduced each act to the audience.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
MARQUEE
A theater marquee bearing a band's name above the entrance was a genuine milestone, proof the act had arrived beyond the club circuit.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
REHEARSAL
Television rehearsals in the early 1960s were notoriously tight, acts often had just a single run-through before the cameras went live.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
FANFARE
A live fanfare from the house orchestra greeted headline acts, a tradition that stretched back to the grand music halls of the Victorian era.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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About On the Variety Show

In the early 1960s, variety shows ruled the airwaves on both sides of the Atlantic, a single broadcast could turn four lads from Liverpool into household names overnight. The stage was everything: the hot wash of the spotlight, the hush before the compere announced the next act, the roar that followed the first chord. A debut on one of those programs meant your face was suddenly on every screen in the country, your name up in lights on the marquee by morning.

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