It is interesting to speculate whether the French comedy team Foottit and Chocolat could have worked with popular success in American vaudeville. The "Master and Man" aspects of their stage relationship approximates those of minstrelsy's interlocuter-and-end-man, but also the "Zip Coon" + Tambo or Bones combination which later influenced many an American vaudeville team. And […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:03AM on April 24, 2022