What a Performance! Pioneers of Popular Entertainment — Season 1, Episode 1: Music Hall
Documentary • 30 min • 1 season, 3 episodes
Episode synopsis
Frank Skinner and Suzy Klein look at the birth of 19th-century music hall, the colourful world of its entertainers and the audiences whose lives were changed by it.
About What a Performance! Pioneers of Popular Entertainment
Suzy Klein and Frank Skinner look at the century-long history of music halls and variety theatre between 1850 and 1950 and recreate famous acts from Marie Lloyd and Dan Leno to Vera Lynn and Max Miller.