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They were considered a speciality act in these films, and usually performed a song.

Musical freestyle has become more common in animal talent shows and speciality acts.

It involved a mixture of popular song, comedy, speciality acts and variety entertainment.

Acts were not limited, meaning the show featured a variety of musical, comedy, and speciality acts.

Music halls were originally bars, which provided entertainment in the form of music and speciality acts for their patrons.

Wrestling and jujitsu exhibitions were both popular speciality acts, forming the basis of modern professional wrestling.

Mr Nicol was one of the judges who awarded Damon not only first place but also the award for best speciality act.

Mr. Franklin will also fly a twin-engine Aerostar in a speciality act.

These were known collectively as speciality acts (abbreviated to "spesh"), which, over time, have included:

The bar was its old sleazy self, though this time of day the speciality acts were off, and only a couple of bored bump-and-grinders filled their place.

In the UK they were regarded as one of the best 'speciality acts' - acts designed to balance and support the star of a variety programme.

Dandridge, Nicholas, and Nicholas's brother Fayard Nicholas, appeared in a part described as "speciality act".

The evening's performance is a variety show consisting of family entertainment, including comedy, singing, dancing, magic and other speciality acts, and many of the performers and hosts are celebrities.

Formats rather like the British Music Hall, or the American Vaudeville, still occur, where an audience is treated to a pot-pourri of singers, comedians, bands, sketches and speciality acts.

The show combines kung fu martial arts from the Shaolin Temple, artists from the Peking Opera and other Chinese speciality acts.

As for the two speciality acts: Jeff Sheridan, the "Silent Magician" (one resounding yea) and Alan Ende, a comic ventriloquest (one nay).

O'Grady once starred in a show entitled The Paul O'Grady Show which was a huge success due to its variety of speciality acts and high profile celebrity guests.

I can't remember the cost, but it wasn't very high - maybe $10 to $15 for the show which also included a number of other speciality acts some of which I mentioned in my previous message.

The national final saw Damon take first prize, and collect a trophy, a cheque for £2,750, a voucher for a £400 costume, and entries in two stage prestigious publications, again winning the audience vote and best speciality act award.

The BBC series The Good Old Days, which ran for thirty years, recreated the music hall for the modern audience, and the Paul Daniels Magic Show allowed several speciality acts a television presence from 1979 to 1994.

At the end of 1898, as reported in The Era, Vandy was specially engaged for Keith's Circuit in the U.S.A. by H.H. Felber, Esq. at yet again record salary for a British speciality act.

And they are all remarkably good, without turning their specialty numbers into occasions for personal grandstanding, or not only that.

The chair was a specialty number.

The movie has the manner of a succession of specialty numbers, though it is far more cannily constructed than that.

At one point, it was suggested that Eleanor Powell do a specialty number, but she declined to do so.

Collect props for specialty numbers.

Local young women became part of the dance troupe, presenting one specialty number as well as the Can-Can at each performance.

Mr. Villella nonetheless studs the choreography with lively specialty numbers.

Kathleen Marshall's choreography remains stronger in character-defining specialty numbers than in the big ensemble pieces.

An impatient exhibitionistic youth promptly jumped up and conjured a specialty number from the invisible beams.

Sam's (i.e. Harpo's) harp specialty number was removed from the final scene.

The Andrews Sisters have a specialty number in the all-star revue Hollywood Canteen (1944).

A specialty number featuring Nell O'Day, with unknown music, set in a cabaret lobby.

And Mr. Herman said he would take part in specialty numbers, including one illustrating the uses and abuses of "Hello, Dolly!"

In the end, however, Ross' MGM tenure proved little more than a collection of glorified bit parts, interspersed with the occasional specialty number.

The song was used for several years in the 1980s as a specialty number during The Rockettes Radio City Christmas Spectacular.

Like the pairs skaters, who delivered the usual overhead lifts and tosses they were trained to do in competitions, these individual professionals mainly executed specialty numbers of their own.

And she's all nerve ends in "His Rocking Horse Ran Away," a specialty number written for the raucous style of Betty Hutton.

Forcibly eking grandiose theme songs out of the words of movie titles or inserting specialty numbers into nonmusical films is not the same as writing for characters.

Composers Con Conrad and Herb Magidson wrote a specialty number for Garland, "The Americana."

During the later 1920s, she and McHugh wrote specialty numbers for the various Cotton Club revues, many of which were recorded by Duke Ellington.

You can thus feel the pleasure rush that the stars of "Stairway" derive from claiming elegant specialty numbers as their own, using muscles that have probably been inactive for a while.

The telephone he plugged into the wall was a specialty number, carrying a built-in scrambler and a switch that let him change the pitch and tenor of his voice at will.

He also performs a specialty number: "Lon Chaney's Gonna Get You If You Don't Watch Out".

The energy level starts out high, and just stays there, whether he's doing an up-tempo version of "With a Song in My Heart" or a specialty number like "Candy Man."

Schlemmer introduces a musical specialty number played by the De Marcos, who he describes as not being Spaniards, but Span-Yids (i.e. Jewish musicians).