Dr. Marissa Vigneault
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519 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Jun
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And it's kind of simultaneous with the rapid development of penny presses and newspapers that are publishing multiple times a day, like the New York Post and New York Herald.
And they start to have sections that are about like what we'd call tabloid things today, right?
Like equivalent to the sun, right?
And they just blew up in the newspaper, right?
It was like, oh my gosh, you have to go see these shows.
These exotic British blondes are here and performing.
And you're seeing like some leg, these leg shows.
And so that idea comes.
And they made so much money.
I mean, to think again what you mentioned before about the economics of all of this.
It was a way for women to be somewhat self-sustaining, right?
That the theater was very largely controlled by men, right?
Especially like stage directing and ownership and everything else.
But Lydia Thompson, like she kind of had that control over it.
Right.
Absolutely.
Right.
She was a maven and a just self-created just I'm going to make it on my own and also share it with the women that are with me here.
So it was a kind of distributive like economics there.
So that's kind of what sets our beginning point of burlesque.
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