What popular form of entertainment in the late 1800s featured a variety of live entertainers in the same show?

vaudeville

Explanation:

A typical American vaudeville performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. Types of acts have included popular and classical musicians, singers, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, ventriloquists, strongmen, female and male impersonators, acrobats, clowns, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies. Vaudeville developed from many sources, also including the concert saloon, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, and literary American burlesque. Called "the heart of American show business", vaudeville was one of the most popular types of entertainment in North America for several decades

Vaudeville

Explanation:

Vaudeville was a popular form of entertainment in the late 1800s. it was a form of entertainment showed that featured various types of acts on stage that were totally unrelated but were still a form of entertainment to the people watching.

A typical vaudeville will include different Genres of Musicians, magicians, clowns , acrobats, drummers, pianists, trained animals on display, drama, and even artists presenting various artistic works all on the same bill and stage .

Vaudeville developed from sources like  the concert saloon, vaudeville was known as one of the most popular/entertaining type of entertainment  for several years

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