variety show

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variety show - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Variety show \Variety show\
     A stage entertainment, live or televised, of successive
     separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic
     feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or
     any specialties. When performed live in a theater, it was
     often called a vaudeville show, but when television became
     a dominant form of entertainment live vaudeville performances
     almost completely ceased.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

variety show - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  variety show
      n 1: a show consisting of a series of short unrelated
           performances [syn: variety show, variety]